Filter Results
:
(99)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (99)
- Faculty Publications (10)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (99)
- Faculty Publications (10)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
smart can be even more important than working hard." HBS Press Books in Brief Leading the Revolution, by Gary Hamel, offers an action plan -- indeed, an incendiary device -- for any company or individual intent on becoming or persevering...
View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
store. In 2015 the company was developing a strategy for its Smart Platform, a model in which Ocado would lease its software, hardware, and integration services to brick-and-mortar grocery retailers seeking to build online businesses....
View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
issues, dynamic pricing; and automated vehicles. Improving mass transit systems that connect to other forms of transportation. Making the US easier for foreign visitors to enter. An infrastructure bank to make targeted strategic...
View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
the richest offer. Imagine that you're an NHL general manager. You have a month, at most, to fill your team's roster before training camp begins. What's your strategy? If you expect that your rivals will go on a spree and overspend for big-name players, it would be...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
conflicts in both theory and political sensitivity: Should Midwest motorists have to pay a price for gasoline that includes a questionable element for environmental impact? The opposition would rise when this “externality” is seen to pay for mass View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
was obviously smart and had a great spirit. And he just said, our problem is we have nothing in our brains. We're yearning to be able to dream and to be able to have intelligence and information so that we can do our part in this country....
View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
in Barared. As cofounder of the IGNIA Fund, along with HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu, Rodríguez looks for investments that serve what he calls “the base of the pyramid.” In 2010, IGNIA invested $3.1 million in Barared, helping it View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
1,000 people in 180 cities around the world. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to two of Cloudflare’s founders, Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) and Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), about how the business began 10 years ago in the midst of the financial...
View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is...
View Details
Keywords:
Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
window and trying to have a longer term perspective on where markets are going and the role that they want to play in those markets. Because you need a North star, you need something that's guiding you over time with that transition and...
View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
having a networking strategy is the game-changer that can allow you to advance more effectively? Smart networking is about building relationships. Networking is more about coffee and less about cocktails. It’s more about being involved in...
View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did...
View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
building and learning for a new firm in a nascent industry. Through a longitudinal study of a new firm in the nascent smart city industry, we found that the firm failed to make progress on important internal initiatives, despite notable...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
could work in San Francisco that were struggling to find jobs go take huge starting salaries out in Silicon Valley. And I was like, “Maybe we can start a business that makes this a whole lot more fair kind of regardless of what school you go to. Here my friends are so...
View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
Creative destruction of a different kind occurred during the political transition in Turkey in 1980, after the military coup. Previous political and social connections lost their value over night. 450 new people sat in parliament, and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
change. Encouraging self-organizing networks to let them investigate whatever they want to through company channels can produce new business ideas, as IBM found in the early days of virtualization. When talented employees leave to start ventures, View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
difference in the transition from what used to be largely an advice business—and a pretty antiseptic advice business—to one that is much more about outcomes and implementation and results and take your advice and prove that that’s going...
View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
different product life cycles. Making the transition has been extremely hard. What made the iPod transition easier is that the iPod began as a PC peripheral, even though it's ultimately a consumer...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
pre-pandemic times. We will all be forever changed by this experience, and the transition to a post-pandemic world will be a slow and rocky one that will bring challenges and stressors. Some of your employees will return to work grieving...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne