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- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
and administrative costs into the cost of serving individual customers. Either they treat all such costs as fixed-period costs and don't drive them to the customer level, or they use high-level, inaccurate methods, such as allocating a...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time in using his research to partner with, and help, the tribes he studied. “I said, ‘Corn? What are...
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Considering Retirement - Alumni
current position for years to come, "retirement" has changed for many. Rethinking “Retirement” In many ways, the key to a successful retirement is the same as it is for a successful career: planning. But in the run-up to retirement, too few of View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310077-PDF-ENG Local Motors: Designed by the Crowd, Built by the Customer Michael I. Norton and Jeremy B. DannHarvard Business School Case 510-062 In the wake of the meltdown among U.S. auto manufacturers in 2009, Jay...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered
entrepreneurship a bit less intimidating for a first-timer like me. So with a renewed interest in startups, I registered for the 10-day HBS Startup Bootcamp scheduled for the January term. The aim of the program was to provide both practical tools and hands-on guidance...
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- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
were Rock Venture Partners. A colleague at Google had even explored a startup idea at the i-Lab. The more I investigated the resources at HBS, the more I knew an MBA there was the perfect fit for me. I also saw my time at HBS as an...
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- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
system with periodic review, constant leadtimes, infinite supply, full backlogging, linear holding and penalty costs and no ordering costs. Forecasting ARIMA time series requires tracking forecast errors (interpolations) and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4
now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
listening to, and hearing, outside views. Arrogance We work for each other We worry about what others can learn from us We practice secrecy in dealing with the outside world We’re Goliath, and we need to defend our position We spend our...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
analyze the data using nonparametric tests and regression analysis. Findings—The mean number of business segments per firm varies significantly by country. Notably, there is no evidence in our sample that emerging-market companies are...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
borders of modern-day nations with the cultures and civilizations of the ancient time periods, the team used maps from the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, published by the Central Intelligence Agency.)...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
But for most of us, our relationship with alarm clocks is both intimate and codependent. It's the last thing we see when we go to sleep, and the first thing we see when we wake up. We rely on it every morning, but we resent the living daylights out of it. "Because...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,...
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what...
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- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
context. I believe that once we can articulate how racism harms everyone, we are closer to dismantling the system that harms us all. Broderick Turner is an assistant professor of marketing at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business...
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by Danielle Kost
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
behind the 2022 theme: "When the co-chairs and I met earlier in the summer to decide on the direction of this year's Climate Symposium, we continued to come back to the themes of intersectionality of climate change across sectors and functions, and how only a combined...
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AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography
Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
case goes well beyond legal considerations, says Desai. “Fundamentally, it’s a question of how to handle historic injustices,” he says, “and there are profound arguments on both sides.” Desai led a case discussion with first-year HBS MBA students about these questions....
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by Michael Blanding