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- 01 Oct 2000
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Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
economic battlefield, emerging markets like Russia -- where Nestlé is active -- represent valuable new territory for the highly competitive consumer foods business. Nestlé, the world's largest packaged-food company, has always emphasized View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
predicted. It's a long-term goal, but daughter Jodie, who is now 16, motivates her mother every day. "I'm helping her, and all the kids and adults like her, to have a better future. I'm fortunate that I went to business school and I can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
preoccupied with teamwork; others talk a lot about productivity or long-term planning. “These are important clues about what motivates colleagues, which you can use to your advantage later on.” Ask a lot of questions. For the first month... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
what you want to accomplish in the long term, what the goals are in the long term, and then working your way back to what efforts and what strategies you have to implement to get there. We have a long-term goal, not a short-term goal, of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
the country to embrace labor organizing as a tool to end the widespread use of noncompete clauses. “Many tech employees are union-averse, so it’s going to be hard for them to consider joining an established union,” says Johnson. But having a single-issue union would... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
performance, customer knowledge, internal processes, and learning and growth. The balanced scorecard is a practical management tool that marshals the value-added potential of people throughout the organization toward the achievement of View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
that both sets of data have a significant impact on the long-term success and reputation of the company. Through integrated reporting, or a One Report, companies demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, make better decisions based... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the war.” Makowski’s business ventures reflect both engineering... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated system... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
will make important incremental investments to offset the effects of the downturn (for example, increasing our support to students in their job searches). Finally, we will seek out opportunities to strengthen our long-term position.” To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
that we needed to look into other ways of becoming parents," she recalls. "It hadn't occurred to me earlier that we had a choice." Having extended her maternity leave into a long-term leave of absence from the Bank, Costan has spent the... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Indian consumers for future growth? At Harvard Business School we were taught about rolling plans; every year you change. We actually think that’s a bad idea. We tried rolling plans with our company, and we found that managers never focused on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
research has focused on various aspects of customer management in B2B contexts, including customer selection and portfolio management; managing a spectrum of customer engagements, from transactions to long-term relationships; developing... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? In... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
events are big hits; nontechnical volunteers can build and maintain a club Web site; and the low cost appeals to small clubs with limited resources. HBS signed a long-term agreement last fall with Harris Internet Services, a leading... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing. The Question: The company’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
older alumni. “We don’t have to wait 40 years to realize these were missed opportunities; simply asking people to anticipate their long-term rather than short-term regrets motivated them to feel less guilty about taking a vacation.”... View Details