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- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Summing Up Stretch—its meaning, uses, and pitfalls—could fill a book, judging from responses to this month's column. First, there appears to be limited agreement about what stretch is and how it works. Some saw it View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
Debt collectors aren’t perceived as providing great service to debtors.Source: BrianAJackson On the list of industries known for great customer service, debt collection is far from the top—and may not even...
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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. He lays out areas of inquiry, including questions such as (1)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
featuring a discussion on ethanol, a biofuel with a complex history and an uncertain future. Host Brian Kenny is joined by Professor Gunnar Trumbull and Paula Kovarsky from...
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- November 1999 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
Virtualis Systems (A)
By: Jay O. Light and Michael J. Roberts
Describes a second-year MBA's attempts to make money for a fledgling Web-hosting business. As the case ends, he must both sort out the company's business model and financing needs, as well as select from an array of financing and acquisition alternatives.
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Financial Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Web Services Industry
Light, Jay O., and Michael J. Roberts. "Virtualis Systems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-003, November 1999. (Revised October 2009.)
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1.5 Attendance - MBA
tool, students are required to select the reason that is most consistent with why they will not be present in class on that particular day. For example, if a student will miss a class because they are...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
kept getting longer, and I finally realized I might be able to do a service by putting all this information into one package. Silverthorne: Is the academic job market for accounting PhDs View Details
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
What are the consequences of treating employees as an expense rather than an asset? Cappelli argues that this “penny wise and pound foolish” practice hurts the bottom line by discouraging investments in a...
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- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
got about pursuing an MD and an MBA was to do it, and to do it while I was still in medical school. As Harvard Medical students, we can do an MBA at HBS in just one extra year instead of two, which makes it an attractive option. I saw an...
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- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
meeting because...” What would they say? Agenda I believe that if a meeting is important enough to have, it should have a time-boxed agenda and always be followed up with notes and action items (AIs). View Details
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by Julia Austin
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
an ongoing basis in a way that reveals both the costs of a business's activities as well as the time spent on them. In our customer View Details
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Working PapersFemale Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines Authors:Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Abstract Female 'empowerment' has increasingly become a policy...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
FAQs - Alumni
age 13 and older, there will be a special Teen Case designed just for this age group. Once registered for reunion, families will receive a follow-up communication. While on campus, please note that onsite...
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- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
"bridge the communications gap" between lawyers and managers. Sean Silverthorne: You argue that managers shouldn't just view the law as a compliance issue, but rather something that can be used...
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- 03 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions
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by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan
- 29 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
- 21 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes
business management. Here are recent articles and working papers on faculty research that focus on gender issues in the workplace and offer specific actions that companies can use to address them. We will be highlighting more work in this area View Details
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Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
that we can take a set of figures and prove anything we want to. Donald Chipman, Supervisor, Western Electric, 1931 Illumination Study, 1926 Research on productivity at massive manufacturing complexes like...
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- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
From an early age, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had a passion for inventing. In The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, journalist Brad Stone wrote that even as a...
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- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
Workers test the NASA-engineered capsule used to lift trapped miners to the surface. Hugo Infante/Government of Chile via Wikimedia Commons (Editor's Note: Amy Edmondson advises managers to think of teams as View Details