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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
experience and allow them to dream about and complete bigger projects. Lal: There is the potential to use the Internet to make your store more valuable, like Home Depot does in letting you plan a project online and then coming into the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
creditworthy customers are being shut out, that’s a problem. Even worse, if we don't understand why, we can’t fix it. About the Author Karen G. Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and the author of Fintech, Small Business & the American View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
features racial violence and the quest for justice in the South. I also recommend Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann, which provides insight into how American capitalism got into... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
to its—and Morocco’s—benefit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-049 Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Supply Chain for PepsiCo South America Foods, and his team had worked for 10 years to realize their dream of creating an agro research center in Peru that could provide more productive and healthier varieties of potatoes for the Frito-Lay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
jump from their corporate job to start the social venture they've been dreaming about. Our findings suggest that if you're working in business to get the business mindset, there may be a case for jumping sooner," says Lee. View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an expert on leadership and organizations. "For most of the industrial age, we expected large employers to provide essential benefits, including healthcare after retirement. That meant we didn't have to face much public... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
consumers. Webvan was perhaps unrealistically imagined to be such a channel. The difference between Dell and Proctor & Gamble is that Dell can supply all your computing needs, but Proctor & Gamble can never aspire to supplying all your home provisioning needs.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
change,” he says. “So changes in behavior were driven mostly by changing beliefs or changing expectations of the job seekers.” Using cash to weather a talent drought So, what’s a job seeker with dreams of working for a startup to do?... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
them to open up and share their authentic selves, life stories, crucibles, and their hopes and dreams enable them to flourish and grow as leaders by feeling fully accepted. The real danger of labeling people by their external... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
the top of an organization? Is it the best argument yet for the idea of diversity, broadly defined, in organizations? Or is it a utopian dream forged in the laboratory by organization theorists in support of the mantra of decentralized... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a longing for 'being there.'"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
preserve liquidity and affordability? What will be the implications for young families, particularly low- to moderate-income families? Is the American dream of homeownership to be abandoned? In the midst of partisan debate, I hope to add... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
to recruit the best distributors, and to capture market share from weaker, local competitors. Selling the American dream has paid off handsomely. Eight of the ten most valuable brands in the world, according to the Interbrand consultancy,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
naturally. Remember, this is a company that has been described by a number of its chroniclers, rightly or wrongly, as being somewhat averse to the use of marketing research as opposed to following the dreams and preferences of its product... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
dreams and ideas," stretch is even necessary? As she put it, "Stretch goals seem like a crutch to me." What do you think? Original Article The leadership of General Electric introduced the management concept of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
says Tarun Khanna, is that startups must create their own trust. Fintech, Small Business, & the American Dream Karen Mills describes how technology is opening up new capital for entrepreneurs. Creative Construction: The DNA of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on fundraising, "ABRY Fund V" examines a situation every student... View Details