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07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

every day in order to foster a 'one club' attitude. And even early on, despite calls from many observers to play it safer ("You can't win anything with kids" is what a respected television commentator famously said at the time), he gave youth players a chance to win a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

printing plate. Based on the principle of the repellent qualities of grease and water, lithography involves dampening the stone before applying oil-based ink that bonds with the greasy drawing on the stone, but does not stick to the wet, unmarked areas. Paper is then... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

calls this approach “growth hacking” because most of the growth takes place when the early adopters and early majority purchase products, spurring rapid adoption by late majority and laggard segments. Once the vaccine is available to the... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Close Up). These phases are not linear, Garvin emphasizes: all three must take place for the change to work, but not necessarily in the order just described. Moreover, for each stage to be even marginally successful, certain conditions... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

table. “Our user stories fire me up on why we’re doing this,” says Campbell. Monroy agrees, citing the additional satisfaction of building a company culture. “We’re creating the place where I would like to work,” he says. “Having the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

for outstanding senior Black and URM faculty and scholars of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality; and making HBS a particularly attractive place for diverse faculty to do their best work. Toward these ends, we will create, fund,... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

underestimated factor in industrial or business marketing is buyer behavior.— Narakesari Narayandas "So you get in, and then if you do things right, what happens for the business? The customer calls you and wants to place an order.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

with busy film executives, however. Indeed, says Luo part of what makes the Black List interesting in the first place is the “light-touch” approach that surveys executives about scripts they are already coming across in the course of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

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Student Activities - Health Care

Health Care Welcome Reception Takes place each fall and is hosted by the Initiative. This kick-off meet and greet introduces first-year students to the various health care resources at HBS. Health Care 101 Is a broad overview of the... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Versus Emergent Strategy For example, Christensen cites business scholars Henry Mintzberg and James Waters, who in 1985 published a paper defining two forms of strategies: deliberate and emergent. A deliberate strategy, they explained, is a roadmap that a company or an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

Frist Faculty Commons The Frist Faculty Commons, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center , was named in recognition of the leadership support of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family. The Frist Faculty Commons offers a convenient gathering View Details

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

mock-ups of each piece of equipment placed on casters so that they could be moved easily. The learning process included elements of both competition and cooperation to ensure that Cardboard City produced a wide range of possible layouts... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

with a new name The ideas are feel good and to be desired but will fail in the market place which gives capital the primary (and therefore only) stake in the outcome of social human enterprise." Jan Fersubg said, "Whole Foods (an example... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Ignacio Lartirigoyen

learning by intuition, trial and error. I wanted more formal training to take my skills to the next level." Seeking transformational experiences For Ignacio, HBS was the optimal place for him to "get immersed in a different... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

convert existing factories, but that this "quick fix" would prove insufficient in the long term and that Firestone would need to build a dedicated radial factory. The Committee, according to the minutes, "instructed Mr. DiFederico to proceed immediately... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

16 Dec 2021
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

Impact. When you look at making an impact, a large part of it is rooted in directing funds to places that need it. I did that at a very site-specific level as an engineer — if there was a piece of equipment at my facility that was... View Details

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

and what exactly you seek to get out of it—you have a distinct advantage over some of your peers: you know exactly what you want to accomplish in graduate school and can tailor your JD/MBA degree accordingly. I can’t overstate the significance of this advantage;... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

A World of Difference

others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be zero, which is an astonishing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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