Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

every hand in the class went up. Needless to say, the faculty had never seen such eagerness to participate before. Some people began playing multiple cards. To rectify this unfairness, we brought market discipline to the fore and started... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for a functional department within a business unit—for example, the director of marketing or a plant manager.) And Stage 3 covered upper middle management to the executive level. (A person in this stage became a corporate... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960s, the period when the key data becomes available; robust in both country fixed-effects and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

they're going to spend a good part of their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and the free View Details

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

One year after the implementation of the new system, TDABC analysis demonstrated cost savings of 19% and a 10-minute decrease in provider data-entry time. Any EHR system that allows the patient to input data is useful in that it can save patients and providers View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

crying, and reflecting hard about life. We felt transformed by the time that we had together. She is a true rebel; a true badass. Frances and I are on a journey, trying to embrace the same approach.” “When you think about it, what are you... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

herd of elephants in Ghana? Working for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) might seem like a logical step, but Andrew Murphy (MBA ’07), director of strategy, research, and development at the WWF’s Markets Group, would disagree. He insists his... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Art Nature Business

the case, "The Ice King," Professor Tom Nicholas illustrates how Tudor pioneered anew industry, creating a global market for a natural resource once considered worthless, and became a key figure in the history of American... View Details

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

internal culture. It becomes every person for himself,” says Kanter. Kanter says it was certainly time for Kalanick to go—and she’s hoping the company’s brash way of doing business falls away with him. She believes Uber is suffering from... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

from a Field Experiment, authored by Harvard Business School marketing professors Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas. “With so many people and resources at stake, the design of the sales force compensation plan becomes of great strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

same way as new hires' work habitus influences the way in which they will enact the market and social welfare logics within hybrids, the work habitus of top managers influences the way in which they enact both logics in their daily... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

still time to register; interested alumnae can find details at the HBS Women’s Association website. Connecticut Club Explores Behavioral Economics with HBS Professor John Beshears The HBS Club of Connecticut hosted HBS Professor John... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

tedious administrative jobs in organizations." But I found the teaching at HBS a lot more animated and accessible than the teaching at Harvard College. The College was relentlessly academic, and few academics have the outgoing personalities of, say, a Galbraith (and... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

for a Mexican health care startup called Moons, leading market entry, in-house production, and operations for Colombia, and interned at SAGANA, an impact investing fund, where she had the opportunity to lead an investment thesis on... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

(2) their own governance structures, and (3) their own contribution to supporting a Family’s legacy. There is great value that can be created through Family businesses. In fact, wealth creation in Families is becoming a powerful disruptor in all of the global View Details

08 Nov 2024
News

Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details