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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
community. The council became the bridge between business and government during the New Deal, helping coordinate business and government relations, clearing up misunderstandings, and restoring confidence....With an engaging personality and a great gift for gab,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a virus the company had not seen before and start the timer. Bancel was eager for the chance to show off the company’s agility. The organizations settled on the spring of 2020 for this “outbreak”; the first quarter of the year was just... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
(MBA '92), Paul Knutson (HBS '98), William H. roedy, Jr. (MBA '79), and Strauss Zelnick (MBA/JD '83), industry insiders with perspectives from key vantage points in the music world. They, along with HBS associate professor John J.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
regard to just taking my job seriously and being responsible. And it was also-- you know, as a first job, you have to show up on time. I was closing the store at night and so there was a lot to be done in terms of making sure that... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
firms must wait for the pace of user innovation to slow down and the design space to be "mined out." We also show that innovative user-manufacturers and mass-market firms can share the market for a long time. That's the standard... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
Chinese-American and the Eastern heritage has been a big part of how I've grown up. But truthfully, April, what really made this relevant was about 20 years ago when I came out of HBS class of 1997, I was in my first job in management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
conference. Such affronts were all too familiar in a country that, at the time, had few women entrepreneurs. When an agent finally responded, he gave Russo serious pause by showing a building far larger than she had stipulated. Upon... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
concentrated long-term family ownership, few shareholders, and family management. This structure was successful within the historical context of the 1960s but came under attack during the crisis-ridden decades that followed. By tracing these changes, the paper... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
adapting the skills and practices of entrepreneurship for the public sector,” he says. Before joining the HBS faculty and creating the MBA course Public Entrepreneurship, Weiss was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
research—and how academics could better help improve the work of government. The workshop is just one example of how HBS scholars are using their research to make a difference in government policy. Some, like Michael E. Porter or Federal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
you properly troubleshoot and get the team together to solve it? So those are kind of the, I would say, the MBA type skills that come into play. And as much as I don't like to talk about my MBA when I'm making movies, the truth is every movie you have to view as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
Saffronart, and food businesses Whole Foods and the James Beard Foundation. Khaire created the course, she says, because these industries function in fundamentally different ways than those in industries more familiar to traditional HBS... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
anything.” And the next day, I showed up in class and Joe walked in two minutes late and he looked up and he cold called me. And I just put my hands up in the air and I said, “I pass,” and the class booed. There was a lot of hissing and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
helped her renegotiate what she was earning on those baskets. So that was the first time, going to Rwanda that summer, that I saw how it could all come together. And so, when HBS saw the piece run in the FT, one of my professors-- Jeff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
can benefit from the 'cool' aura around our product," notes Grubman. "You don't have to play football to become a fan." But HBS associate professor Juan Alcacer, coauthor of a case titled "The Globalization of the NFL," forecasts... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details