Filter Results
:
(9,512)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(9,512)
- People (16)
- News (1,160)
- Research (7,134)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (29)
- Faculty Publications (5,877)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(9,512)
- People (16)
- News (1,160)
- Research (7,134)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (29)
- Faculty Publications (5,877)
- Web
Events - Business History
conference focused on the intersection of oral history, business, and the Global South, offering a unique space for interdisciplinary discussions. The goal was to bring together a community of scholars who have utilized oral history to enhance their research and...
View Details
- Web
People - Advancing Racial Equity
Task Force Co-Chairs Ron Chandler Chief Information Officer Jan Hammond Faculty / Technology and Operations Management and Senior Associate Dean, Community and Culture Jan Rivkin Faculty / Strategy and...
View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
Intractable Problems as well as a first-time HBS course, Managing and Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India. Will you be incorporating this breakthrough in them? Khanna: Both the courses are about creativity and...
View Details
- May 1997 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Teradyne: The Aurora Project
By: Joseph L. Bower
Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change provides historic and administrative background for the other two cases. This case deals with the problems facing the head of...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Business Startups;
Customer Satisfaction;
Product Launch;
Product Development;
Corporate Strategy;
Semiconductor Industry
Bower, Joseph L. "Teradyne: The Aurora Project." Harvard Business School Case 397-114, May 1997. (Revised October 2007.)
- September 2020 (Revised July 2022)
- Exercise
Artea (B): Including Customer-level Demographic Data
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
This collection of exercises aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic bias in marketing—implications, causes, and possible solutions. Part (A) focuses on A/B testing analysis and targeting. Parts (B),(C),(D) Introduce algorithmic bias. The...
View Details
Keywords:
Targeting;
Algorithmic Bias;
Race;
Gender;
Marketing;
Diversity;
Customer Relationship Management;
Demographics;
Prejudice and Bias;
Retail Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Artea (B): Including Customer-level Demographic Data." Harvard Business School Exercise 521-022, September 2020. (Revised July 2022.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
and teaches a course on strategy to mid- and senior-level managers at Godrej. Nisa has helped relaunch a number of consumer products at Godrej, including "aspirational" goods like hair dyes. Photo courtesy...
View Details
- Article
A Better Way to Assess Managerial Performance
Total shareholder return (TSR) has become the definitive metric for gauging performance. Unlike accounting measures such as revenue growth or earnings per share that reflect the past, TSR is based on share price and thus captures investor expectations of what will...
View Details
Keywords:
Total Shareholder Return;
Buybacks;
Core Operating Shareholder Return;
Management;
Operations;
Performance;
Measurement and Metrics
Desai, Mihir, Mark Egan, and Scott Mayfield. "A Better Way to Assess Managerial Performance." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 134–141.
- October 2008
- Supplement
John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence
Video of an interview conducted by Professor Howard Stevenson with John and Andrea Rice. It presents their views on their notions of career success, finding happiness in life, managing their competitiveness, their goals for the next ten years, and the pursuit of...
View Details
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Success;
Personal Development and Career;
Opportunities;
Happiness;
Competitive Strategy
Stevenson, Howard H., and Shirley M. Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 509-715, October 2008.
- October 1993 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Paragould City Cable
Unhappy with the prices provided by the local, privately owned cable television operator, the city of Paragould, Arkansas constructs a competing municipally owned cable system. Once in operation, Paragould City Cable faces vigorous competition from the incumbent...
View Details
Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Television Entertainment;
Competitive Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Media;
Public Sector;
Programs;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Cost;
Performance Improvement;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Arkansas
Emmons, Willis M., III. "Paragould City Cable." Harvard Business School Case 794-030, October 1993. (Revised October 1996.)
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
providing a warm, welcoming, personalized experience at every level, from executives and managers to housekeeping and wait staff. And Patagonia has demonstrated its pro-environment stance by continually re-examining its practices—from...
View Details
Keywords:
by Lane Lambert
- November 1994 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up
By: George P. Baker III, Nicola Bamford and Nicolas Greenspan
Explores the strategy, financing, and governance of a new type of organizational form, dubbed the Leveraged Build-Up by its inventor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. The company makes leveraged acquisitions of small publishing companies, managing them in a very...
View Details
Keywords:
Debt Securities;
Financial Management;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Cash Flow;
Organizational Structure;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Strategy;
Corporate Finance;
Publishing Industry
Baker, George P., III, Nicola Bamford, and Nicolas Greenspan. "K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up." Harvard Business School Case 295-067, November 1994. (Revised May 2002.)
- October 1978 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
U.S. Pioneer Electronics Corp.
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Focuses on the problem of the means by which a manufacturer controls its channel of distribution. U.S. Pioneer's retail outlets have turned "dissident" and management has to decide what tactics to employ to stop further erosion (short-run) and what long-run...
View Details
Keywords:
Decisions;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Distribution Channels;
Production;
Problems and Challenges;
Software;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "U.S. Pioneer Electronics Corp." Harvard Business School Case 579-079, October 1978. (Revised July 1991.)
- 08 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
- Web
Judging - New Venture Competition
have potential to become the next big idea with significant economic impact. Companies may also have a social mission but are primarily focused on building high-growth profit-oriented businesses. Semi Final and Finals Judges are Managing...
View Details
- Web
Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
strategy Interviews Adib AlZamilDr. R.S. SodhiDr. Raghunath Anant MashelkarMuhammad MusaMohamed JafferNaina Lal KidwaiKiran Mazumdar-ShawJames MwangiSunil Bharti MittalDevi ShettyMo IbrahimZia ModySeema AzizSyed Babar AliRatan Naval...
View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
themselves. Furthermore, that decision to abandon ship is often the wrong decision. “There is potentially a great market opportunity when a competitor drops out,” says Joshua Lev Krieger, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial View Details
- June 2003 (Revised May 2004)
- Exercise
The Pacific Sentinel: Role for Alex Martinez
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Dina R. Pradel
A new publishing company has just purchased the Pacific Sentinel, a fictional West Coast newspaper. The new publisher is willing to invest $1 million in the future success of the paper and has asked the executive editor and advertising manager to develop a joint plan...
View Details
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Dina R. Pradel. "The Pacific Sentinel: Role for Alex Martinez." Harvard Business School Exercise 903-136, June 2003. (Revised May 2004.)
- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
I am now on the halfway point of my internship and I would like to use this post to share three of the most relevant experiences I have had in the last few weeks at Zalando. 1. Management Board speaks about Diversity As I mentioned on my...
View Details
Keywords:
Consumer Products / Retail
- 10 Nov 2008
- News
American Competitiveness
- Web
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows - MBA
cross-sector partners, such as school districts, government agencies, and employers.” Raghav Srinivasan. Raghav brings four years of international development experience to HBS. As a strategy manager at...
View Details