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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
of different forms of auctions See how conjoint analysis can be used to understand customer preferences 12 hrs Module 3 Suppliers and Cost Understand fixed versus variable costs and economies of scale. Highlights The View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Associates (chemical analysis instruments); and Ionics (water purification). Doriot did not believe in turning companies around for an instant profit but rather staying with them for the long term and... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Love to Profits The Current Energy System Transatomic: Bringing Nuclear Power to the Forefront Show Hide Details Concepts Lipton Tea Business Models Jumping the S Curve and Dealing with Uncertainty Featured Exercises Business model and... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Hours Download full syllabus 6-8 hrs Module 1 Macroeconomic and Political Analysis Interpret data on countries’ macroeconomic and political performance. Highlights Inflation Introduction to the Macroeconomic View Middle-Income Countries... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
business interests, while Malaysia’s government took a softer approach, allowing companies to continue operations in exchange for training and development programs that helped smallholder farmers switch from rubber—which, with the introduction of synthetics, was no... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
in crises. These survey results form the basis for our analysis and advice below. Do consumers want to hear from brands during a crisis? Yes, they do, but only when that communication is comforting and reassuring to them and provides... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
segregated white and Black neighborhoods. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition indicates that three-quarters of the neighborhoods graded as hazardous 80 years ago are now low- to moderate-income communities, with... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) improve corporate governance? Does customer View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
these new profits to another productive use, the investor may expand Husk’s total impact. Roth cautions that his analysis does not offer a complete view of the many ways in which investments and grants... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or stimulate new thoughts. Combining social network View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
denial? Because it is often easier, "safer," and more profitable in the short run, and more comfortable than confronting a problem, a poor decision made by a superior, a difficult personnel decision, or a failing strategy. At... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2000
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clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
Buzzell Photo Courtesy HBS Communications An expert in strategic marketing, Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, died last November in Virginia. He was 71. Buzzell was perhaps best known for his role in the formulation and View Details
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Market Perspectives (previously Finance and Capitalism) - Course Catalog
analysis to contemporary issues. The cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug... View Details
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Launch Lab/Capstone 2 - Course Catalog
develop, build, and test a complex technology-based product/service, integrating knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines. Business Knowledge: The use of business model analysis and lean experimentation methods to develop and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
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What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
fourth possibility is that some sectors of the economy, particularly services, pose a drag on productivity increases, although our own analysis of productivity trends over the past three decades does not provide consistent evidence of... View Details