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01 Sep 2023
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That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

and people of color to senior roles tend to hire people with similar demographics to replace them when they leave, allowing for diversity to “stick.” The findings also raise an important question at a time when many corporate diversity,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

Critics in a New York Times article called the ad “sexist and dystopian,” and The Atlantic published a piece with the headline: “Peloton Doesn’t Understand the People Who Love It Most.” ‘A pretty hard fall’ By early 2021, equipment... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

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Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the world’s most important economic... View Details

March 2024
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Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble (B)

By: N. Louis Shipley, Stacy Straaberg and Tom Quinn

In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Valuation; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina

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06 Dec 2016
First Look

December 6, 2016

private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence. Drawing on the expertise of sixteen... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

Lives Matter movement in 2020, consumers report being four times as likely to buy from companies that speak out against racism, according to Edelman research. Almost 90 percent of consumers say they expect companies to go beyond merely... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

08 Aug 2022
HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

immediately take off. Its first two albums flopped; its third album was a moderate success. Lead singer RM reminisced about BTS’ rough start in an interview with the Korea Herald: “At the time we debuted, I still remember how people... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

life in El Salvador—not being able to spend time with loved ones, coming here and building a life and hoping that someday it would be worth it. That’s why moments like graduation are so valuable for us, and for so many of my classmates’... View Details

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

indicates that many people who palter see nothing wrong with it, whereas people on the receiving end feel scammed. People who palter may gain some ground in negotiating a better deal for themselves in the short run, but if their cunning... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Working PapersAuditing in the Self-reporting Economy Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the licensing of intellectual property in exchange for royalties that depend on the self-report of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

04 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

crazy pace of tech developments and feel the intense energy around you. Unfortunately, the company I worked for eventually shut down. I decided to take a few weeks off and head to Greece on vacation. I felt the uncertainty that comes in... View Details

08 Dec 2022
HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

to its Russian employees and civilian customers of baby food and nutritional formula if it withdrew. "You don’t want to support war, but at the same time you don’t know if you will be making things worse or not." “It really gets at the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Poulsen, MBA, f J. Punnen, MD, g D. Shetty, MD, g and A. Milstein, MD, MPH Rationale and Objectives: To quantify the costs and work of diagnostic radiology (DR) residents using the radiology key performance indicator turn-around View Details

26 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

that day hold lessons, some of them for business managers. Roberto's new working paper describes how. Here follows an excerpt from "Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System... View Details

Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

increasingly common in data mining, optimization problems, or Internet applications where the goal is to find an acceptably good solution in a short amount of time when a deterministic approach might be less... View Details