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- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
high levels of employee engagement "turns around and pays back multiple times what you invest in it," Gochnauer said. And sometimes, boards do get it. "I find that boardrooms are filled with people who want to be proud of what they're... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
monetize concepts, many of them apps for Android and IOS, driving doubtful revenue models in packed market segments with little differentiating code." Nol Perreira asked, "What will prick the bubble? The View Details
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
finance and macroeconomics are made in the face of uncertainty and beliefs play a central role. In the past few years, I have studied how non-financial firms in the U.S. exploit capital market frictions and act as arbitrageurs across... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
or chemistry in the camp library. In the family camp, some women were even allowed to keep servants. “They had a good time relative to what was happening in other geographies,” says Giacomin. “Eventually, their major problem was boredom.... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
The European market remains very attractive, with strong potential for growth—especially once French and German restructuring gets more underway, according to a panel of private equity group executives. That panel discussion was part of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard Business School View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
future course of Asian business. "Asia has always been a tough place to do research," notes McFarlan, the driving force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January. "With a 24-hour plane trip and 13 View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
as AOL (now AOL Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power.— Lynda M. Applegate The point within a value chain where maximum economies of scale and scope are created... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise prices between the View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
current post heading international operations, which he now runs from Detroit after several years of doing so from GM's Zurich offices. As a GM "lifer," Hughes has witnessed strikes and harmony, lean years and boom times in the... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
market against the more incumbent and larger companies, particularly during times with great uncertainty.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: coldsnowstorm] Related... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
that the choice women make to leave and re-enter the workforce is just one of many gender-related issues that has long needed understanding. Though it's not unique to executives, it is a particularly compelling subject for MBA women who have made heavy investments of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
I see it as being the most creative and innovative time in the industry. It’s the Wild West,” said Ceci Kurzman, vice president of worldwide marketing for Epic Records Group. “The record business may be in... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
painfully clear to me a number of years ago in Veraguas province, Panama, where I was working with students to help a radical bishop, Marcos McGrath, establish credit and marketing cooperatives. Local government experts who did not... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- Profile
Sparsh Bhargava
his presence was to the citizens of Carrollton. "Most of my education was theoretical," he says. "This was the first time I could get hands-on experience, see things I had learned about; like distillation columns and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
RIGHT-HAND MAN: Valenti’s memoir richly describes his years in the White House, a time when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and made key decisions about the Vietnam War. Estate of Jack Valenti If Jack Valenti (MBA 3/’48) had lived to see... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
an increased awareness of and preference for the brand immediately following the release and premiere of the film at both the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. “We believe this was the first time a... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
a long time to build up a culture of integrity for any inspection service,” Quelch says. Plus in China, some suspect that foreign brands are at times unfairly targeted, accused of food safety violations that... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
Aetna’s move is not consumer friendly, it does make financial sense–at least for the time being. According to CEO Mark Bertolini, Aetna sustained more than $430 million in pre-tax losses since January 2014 in the individual health... View Details
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