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- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Pike Place Roast, which emphasizes the brand's humble Seattle coffee culture beginnings. Adidas's "Impossible Is Nothing" campaign emphasized the underdog stories of famous athletes. Q: How did you notice this trend? How did you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
the existence of bricks-and-mortar stores actually help Amazon and other e-commerce players: they are the perfect place for online shoppers to touch and feel products they are considering purchasing. Store retailers must also compete... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE National Basketball Association HBS ACTIVITIES Community Values Rep, African-American Student Union (AASU) co-president, 2019-20 Vivian Scalfi “THIS IS THE PLACE TO LEARN HOW TO IMPROVISE.” HOME REGION Sao Paulo,... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
place when they enter one of our stores," says Thomas Pink's Tranthi. Inspired by the craftsmanship of a late-18th-century London tailor (if you wore one of his hunting coats, you were considered "in the pink"), Thomas Pink... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
predators and no there is no place for them in positions of power, ever, anywhere.” Janie added, “There is compelling evidence suggesting that many CEOs have strong narcissistic qualities, border on sociopathic tendencies, and often turn... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
teaching or former Visiting Fellows hold academic positions. Important examples include the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. The project does not pay the travel for faculty to conduct interviews, so we also depend on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
academic and professional career, and learned an insane amount all by putting learning into action. What is FIELD 1? FIELD 1 takes place in your first semester at HBS and lasts about two months. It is a deep dive into what makes you tick... View Details
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
experiences. All their companies had diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and were talking a lot about it. I asked, "How many of you would recommend your company as a place to work for young black professionals?" I could barely... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership
stakeholders who deeply cared about the club and its members that helped me decide that HBS was the place for me and that I wanted to be a part of LASO leadership which is how I ended up on the board. Under last year’s leadership LASO was... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture real-time data on their assets and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Bluestockings, a nonprofit feminist bookstore in Manhattan that sold hard-to-find books from small publishers and self-published zines. Without a marketing budget to place an ad in the Village Voice, Grantham decided to host an event at... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
and dispatch. Unlike the -W option, one's job is not killed if exceeding the -We run time estimate value. User Limits At this time, the following constraints have been put in place to help give fair usage: For interactive sessions, each... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
It was a magical experience—the combination of hair, accents and melanin brought calmness to an anxiety-filled experience of moving to a new place in a new community. I remember That time I left the first consulting club session on how to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
“Without this awareness,” the report reads, “and especially without processes and procedures in place to address the risks created by legacy FOSS, organizations open themselves up to the possibility of hard-to-detect issues within their... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
knew more than others, even though the top management team had been in place for 20 years and had helped secure the father-son transition. The son felt the business could be run in a more profitable way. He was probably right, but the... View Details
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Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities
My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details