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- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
what did your panel presenters and speakers identify as main themes in the colloquia's mission to "illuminate and deepen the connections between creativity, entrepreneurship and successful organizations of the future?" The role of View Details
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and occupational...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Retailing, supply chain experts Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman explain how to use analytics to better manage your inventory for faster turns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies of retailing...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
agricultural pressures, and the effects those impacts have on business, society, and global food production. "Like all good cases it's a good story, and like all good cases it also tells you something more general about important...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
find that transparency, by visually revealing operating processes to both producers and consumers, generates a positive feedback loop through which value is created for both parties. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
reputation and brand. In general these activities create a win-win for the company and its larger group of stakeholders. Q: Many nonprofits from museums to food banks are worried about the dwindling number of donors and their future in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs averaging about 10 percent of...
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- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
the results of his inquiry in a new book The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World, which deals head on with the growing management complexities in the new economy. “What's going on now is a return to an earlier...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
and, in any case, did not manage to reform the country in a fast enough pace. Driving from Athens to Thessaloniki in 20 hours is hardly an achievement—even if there is a lot of traffic. Moreover, I am happy to see old faces go: I am a big...
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by George Serafeim
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast, judges are exhorted to follow a set of start dates for considering and hiring applicants during the fall of the third year of law school. Using the...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
families. As Professor of Management Practice and co-head of the HBS Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit, Myra Hart has been particularly interested in women in business. Since joining the faculty in...
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by Martha Lagace
- May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Yangcheng: AES in China
AES, an American electric power company with 141 plants worldwide, is just completing construction of a 2,100-MW plant in China--the largest ever. The project, a joint venture with five local companies, has several environmental, ownership, and operational issues as...
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Energy Generation;
Joint Ventures;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Problems and Challenges;
Energy Industry;
China
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Yangcheng: AES in China." Harvard Business School Case 702-006, May 2002. (Revised August 2006.)
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
implementation: over 70% of shifts generated by the system were receiving manual overrides ("edits") by the store managers. Store managers believed the edits were necessary to remain responsive to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
crises and of the response of western and central Europe to their gas dependence-I find that firms are driving these political outcomes; those firms are motivated by profits but employ sociological conventions along their ways; and firms View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
of each segment is changing, and how the company's products and services address the needs of each segment. The product was developed by Gail McGovern, a professor of management practice, and John Quelch, the Senior Associate Dean and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
School is at an inflection point, an insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it's also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a banking crisis and...
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