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for CORe? CORe is offered with multiple durations of study—ranging from 10-week cohorts to extended 17-week cohorts. However, the course content and program requirements are identical regardless of the program length. Our View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
mission “to elevate the world’s consciousness” and his personal objective of “We are here to change the world; nothing less interests me.” Indeed, WeWork’s prospectus reads like a Marianne Williamson... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
able to realize the sales before the end of the quarter and thus fulfill their budget goal and make their bonuses. But the high cost of assembling the goods at a distant... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- January 1996 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
Scott Paper Company
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
A professional turnaround manager attempts to implement a massive global downsizing program at the world's largest producer of consumer tissue products. The plan involves laying off almost one third of the company's 34,000 hourly and salaried employees and dramatically... View Details
Keywords: Assets; Global Strategy; Resignation and Termination; Goals and Objectives; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Sales; Value Creation; Pulp and Paper Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Scott Paper Company." Harvard Business School Case 296-048, January 1996. (Revised September 1997.)
- February 1998 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader
By: Srikant M. Datar and Carin-Isabel Knoop
For the Novartis leaders, the decision to "use stretch budgets again next year" highlights the tension between candor and empowerment and command-and-control, between the new and the old, between high performance and business as usual, between Ciba and Sandoz.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Performance; Budgets and Budgeting
Datar, Srikant M., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader." Harvard Business School Case 198-041, February 1998. (Revised November 1998.)
- Profile
Melcolm Ruffin
goals and a trajectory beyond what I would've previously imagined." By the time Melcolm arrived on campus in 2018, he "felt I was already part of AASU," and he's... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
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Considering Retirement - Alumni
like to have? Are you attracted to stability – or adventure? Some people prefer time for family and hobbies; others want an encore career (perhaps in nonprofit service) that applies the skills they acquired in their previous careers to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
says. “If you are a woman, you might have to try even harder.” As for companies, the researchers advise organizations to change their promotion practices. In addition to basing promotions on objective data, such as worker productivity,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
this year or 2020. Mission Statement: SPACEX “SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate... View Details
- September 2009 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Faaiza Rashid
Describes Autodesk's engagement in Integrated Project Delivery—a new model of risk management, inter-firm teamwork, and multi-objective (aesthetic, cost, and sustainability) optimization in building projects. In 2008, Autodesk, Inc. the world's largest design software... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Groups and Teams; Goals and Objectives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Integration; Construction Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., and Faaiza Rashid. "Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-018, September 2009. (Revised April 2011.)
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Institute of Education and Research Claudio Haddad is a dreamer with a unique ability to temper his idealism with practicality. Having served as economics professor, government leader, and bank CEO, the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
second round of funding, with the goal of expanding into the Mexican market before moving on to Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, and Chile. In its first year, through word of mouth alone, users completed... View Details
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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services
Compute Cluster Running Jobs 4ms The most important goal for using the HBSGrid is for running programs and scripts that might consume more resources than are available on your desktop or laptop. These... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Ecometano/MDCPAR “Our goal is to provide our corporate clients in Brazil with cost efficient low carbon energy solutions. Ecometano has pioneered the upgrading of high BTU biogas from landfills and other... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
sugaring, says Turner. “I was afraid it might change the taste, but Mike and some other scientists worked on it with me, and when we tasted the first batch, it was incredible.” For the Turners, “doing it... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
commitment strategies. In later studies, Zlatev and Kristal asked participants to rate people on their degree of integrity based on their use of a commitment strategy involving paying a friend $5 if they failed to follow through on a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
financially responsible for the error. And despite overwhelming local support for the $3 million project, city officials raised objections that Dlodlo believes would never have been lodged against a... View Details
- April 2018 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Shanda Family Office
By: Christopher Malloy, Lauren Cohen and Essie Alamsyah
Tianqiao Chen, founder and CEO of Shanda Group, has set up his family office in the U.S. in 2016 after exiting from Shanda's Internet games business in China in 2014, again pioneering an unconventional approach to the management of a family office. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Management; Strategy; Investment; Goals and Objectives; China; United States
Malloy, Christopher, Lauren Cohen, and Essie Alamsyah. "Shanda Family Office." Harvard Business School Case 218-102, April 2018. (Revised September 2019.)
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business... View Details