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Event Guidelines | About
ensuring that maximum capacity levels are not exceeded at any time. Setup : All room layouts, furniture, vendor supported elements (such as event lighting, staging, etc.) will be managed by HBS Operations. Service Providers : Only approved Harvard View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
From Resource Allocation to Strategy by Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert (Oxford University Press) Drawing on thirty years of research on resource allocation, Professor Bower and Assistant Professor Gilbert discuss the structural...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
company, associates are constantly searching for better ways to do business in response to the LizFirst challenge. "While our management structure is not totally democratic here," Charron adds, "we make a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog
defined by how business leaders and other stakeholders operate. Course Content and Organization This course offers students an opportunity to explore the historical development of the United States as the country became increasingly...
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- October 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals
By: V.G. Narayanan, Michael G. Wilson and Rachel Gordon
After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide how to reorganize services to take advantage of newly created efficiencies. Focuses on the Orthopedics department at one of the hospitals.
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Cost Accounting;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Service Operations;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Efficiency;
Competitive Advantage;
Health Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Michael G. Wilson, and Rachel Gordon. "Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals." Harvard Business School Case 108-016, October 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
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Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Building Trusted Organizations Course Number 1825 Professor of Management Practice Sandra Sucher Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Course Description Trust is crucial to the success of any relationship. Building trust into the View Details
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
must make collaborative tradeoffs to ensure that the “enjoyment” and the “unimpaired” elements of the mission statement are met. Thus, parks are not dissimilar from businesses in that day-to-day operations can present tough tradeoffs and...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Teaming at GE Aviation Khurana, Rakesh, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Willy Shih, and Eric BaldwinHarvard Business School Case 413-074 Describes the challenges and successes encountered by GE's Aviation business in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2017 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Tempur Sealy International (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Lauren G. Pickle
This case explores the long-term relationship between Tempur Sealy (TPX, a mattress manufacturer) and Mattress Firm (MFRM, a bedding retailer and TPX's largest customer). For almost 20 years, the firms enjoyed a mutually beneficial and commercially prosperous...
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Porter's 5 Forces;
Bargaining Power;
Buyer Power;
Customer Power;
Supplier Power;
Negotiations;
Value Capture;
Consumer Durables;
Consumer Discretionary;
Mattresses;
B-2-B;
Industry Dynamics;
Compensation;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Value Creation;
Competition;
Cooperation;
Private Equity;
Distribution;
Negotiation;
Industry Structures;
Customers;
Relationships;
Leadership;
Distribution Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
South Africa
Esty, Benjamin C., and Lauren G. Pickle. "Tempur Sealy International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 718-422, September 2017. (Revised April 2022.)
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Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
with colorful trade cards, business cards, postcards, and the like offered a unifying structure in which to display an abundance of recognized brand name goods, while introducing a new culture of advertising...
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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business School—Newsroom. Can you tell us a bit about the new role and what it means organizationally for HBS Online and Executive Education? Patrick Mullane (PM) (Executive Director, HBS...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
a business plan to solicit venture capital and helped with strategic planning for a new Web-based product launch. To further expand his knowledge of India's thriving entrepreneurial landscape, Khare also did some work as a summer...
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Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
communication—some vendors and futurists paint a scenario where businesses collaborate and compete in profound new ways. But your research suggests that this is not happening and is not likely to happen any time soon. Why have Web...
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by Sara Grant
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
traditional problem of significant air leakage around window and door frames. An air-exchange system turns over the filtered air supply in the house every three hours, providing superior indoor-air quality and helping the house maintain a constant, comfortable...
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Events - Advancing Racial Equity
Events Events Managing Diversity Speaker Series The “Managing Diversity” speaker series brings together leading scholars and business leaders in a series of conversations on the impact of systemic racism in View Details
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Jonathan Evans
HBS was my top choice among business schools because I wanted a learning environment steeped in not only thinking but also doing. The soul of HBS is the case method, which brings real business issues to life...
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations and structures – from fintech startups to private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar global banks and a lot more – in an industry...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any...
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