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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
advice," he asserts. "Sometimes that means the best person for the job is already in the company." Although Egon Zehnder International is also involved in helping corporations find outside directors and in appraising the effectiveness of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
product development terms, you might call this something like "jumping to the next S-curve." By the "S-curve" we mean the pattern that new innovations typically follow when they are introduced. At first a few people,... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
this new market and product category to take off, but if they become the cognitive referent, they get an unequal share of the gains from doing so.” Is there a roadmap or strategy that firms can follow to gain cognitive referent status? Even robots know that Google is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
ruggedly handsome, good in a fight, savvy, emotionally intelligent, but by no means flawless or mistake-free. Unlike some of his hard-boiled fictional predecessors, he does not brood in a darkened downtown office; he relishes life and the... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-062, January 2018.
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Groysberg. "The stipend, the budget, the library - there are faculty at other schools who don't get the same level of assistance."That assistance means students can take on the topics that interest them most without worrying about funding... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
CUSTOMERS, FINDING OUT WHAT CHOCOLATE MEANS IN THEIR LIVES.” HOME REGION Beijing, People’s Republic of China UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Peking University, 2007 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Mars Inc. View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
and they're paying close attention. I mean, people are like getting back to the TV to see the ad and then leaving during the game, sometimes. So, does that mean the stakes are a lot higher for brands featuring an ad in the Super Bowl?... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
exactly what we thought it would. It came with high incrementality, which means a lot of folks who hadn't been visiting us in the past, or at least the recent past, came in. It came with a high average check and it drove trade up from... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
meaning of their lives, and they remain hopeful about achieving them, even when faced with obstacles. Many contemporary brand biographies contain underdog narratives. Product packaging, corporate Web sites, blogs, and marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
socializing or collectivizing the potential costs of exercising their professional judgment. Some risk-taking is needed in any professional activity; it is from such risks that innovation and growth emerge." For client-managers, this View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
sufficient condition. Beyond network effects, successful platforms make it hard for their users to multihome. Multihome means users can participate on multiple platforms at the same time. In the old days, it was hard to use both a Windows... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
fared poorly. Even fashion-forward discounters like Target have not done well. This doesn't necessarily mean consumers have lost their interest in upscale merchandise. Rather than returning to these same stores after the crisis, are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
challenge two things: The current state of healthcare. Just because it has been deemed too hard or too broken to fix doesn’t mean we fold. What others expect of me. It took a while, but I’ve learned to stop asking, “Who will let you?” and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Anheuser-Busch, that means a foray into the direct-to-consumer channel, which is an entirely new world for the company, notes Whitworth. Traditional beer is a tightly regulated industry, for all the right reasons, with a tangle of laws... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
in the Obama Administration at the White House and US Department of Energy Summer Internship: Strategy at a renewable energy company How do you do it? Prioritization, realism and support. Being a working mom hinges on making the best use of your time. For me this View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Watson] What steps are your organizations taking toward gender parity? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Inclusive Managers Effectively Leverage Diverse Perspectives By Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg Gender inclusion View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Research Summary
Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management
The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
disintegrated despite their shared commitment to communism, helping the West win the Cold War. Professor Jeremy Friedman will explore whether their alignment will prove more durable this time around, and what that could mean for the... View Details