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- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
promotion of independent bookstores. But then a funny thing happened. While pressure from Amazon forced Borders out of business in 2011, indie bookstores staged an unexpected comeback. Between 2009 and 2015, the ABA reported a 35 percent... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
William R., and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
individuals, and a purely peer-based performance review and stack ranking. As customer demand and market forces draw Valve into hardware in 2013, Valve questions whether their organizational model will need to change as it expands from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
whether a person is fit for the job by falling victim to a “cloning bias.” “They’re interviewing and asking themselves what made them successful as salespeople, and they look to clone who they were six to eight years ago,” he says. “But what made you successful View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Edgerley spent five years at Bain & Company where he worked as a consultant and manager in the healthcare, information services, retail and automobile industries. Previously, Edgerley, a certified public accountant, worked at Peat... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
the NTSB later flagged for omitting pivotal facts, Boeing said that its customers “have our assurance that the 737 MAX is as safe as any airplane that has ever flown the skies.” Just five months later, another 737 MAX—Ethiopian Airlines... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions is best explained in terms of industrial structures, inclusive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
in Jamaica This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
public. And as the United States became a major source of television programming worldwide, it proved a major force for diffusing American ideals of lifestyle, fashion, and beauty worldwide. Q: What do you think were the most significant... View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
possible to set expectations on what makes a good hire at your company (even if the hiring managers are experienced) and serve as a role model to managers who will eventually do this themselves. If you are new to hiring, get help from advisers or investors with more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I assert that the root cause of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
profession as a whole (computer support specialists) and the highest (computer research scientists), comparing them with patterns in other STEM professions like chemist. While salaries in five places—Silicon Valley, San Francisco,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
the four or five days surrounding the IPO in 1980. We bet the company at every board meeting.” Superpower: “I think I would say picking good people. I know the real thing when I see it. A lot of it is intuition.” Back to top John B. Hess... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
REGION Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Richmond PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Jonnah, Saudi Aramco Soltan Bryce Looking five to ten years out, Soltan believes the true marker of success will be, “Am I more focused on being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
We introduced “RC Pilots” to integrate into the curriculum several important topics related to business and societal changes. One is the short, intensive RC course called Social Purpose of the Firm, which speaks to the increasingly important role of business as a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS—explores the many ways the three countries have made their mark in higher education over the past two centuries. Here are View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
Five researchers interviewed and tracked GlobalTech team members through the workday, following them to meetings, teleconferences, at lunch, and at after-work social gatherings. For a team split between Germany and India, one researcher... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
further forced changes to customers and hence firm-based behaviors. The outcome of customers’ health and fears has resulted not in a traditional recession but a “deaccession,” where supply and demand exist, but customer-access to products... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel