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- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
de-risking technical and commercial milestones to obtain product-market fit and unlock long-term growth. If I had had the opportunity to enroll in the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program at Harvard, I would have been thrilled to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
against reports from third parties is critical for modern tax enforcement and the growth of state capacity. However, there may be limits to the effectiveness of third-party information if taxpayers can make offsetting adjustments on less... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
minimum wages to go up 13.5 percent a year. That’s an 82 percent increase in wages over five years. Higher wages will cause China’s growth engine to transition from low-cost exports to domestic consumption. My prediction is that over the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
naive confidence that I’d be successful, so I just put one foot in front of the other, built my network, and made the best long-term decisions I could.” “I always had the naive confidence that I’d be successful, so I just put one foot in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
of retirements and departures, the size of the HBS faculty increased to 244 FTEs in fiscal 2020, from 233 FTEs a year earlier. The School’s staff grew to a budgeted 1,839 FTEs in fiscal 2020, from 1,761 in the prior year. To pursue growth... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
compensation, specialized outside professional services in information technology (IT) and other functional areas, marketing costs, and residence expenses for executive program participants. HBP and Executive Education continued to deliver solid operating leverage on... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
capabilities. Forecasts are generally associated with many of the factors that money managers rate as important in their assessments of analyst contributions, including industry growth and competitiveness, low-price strategy, strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
make sure they’re fully apprised of the purpose of the work. Make it meaningful to them." How has your research changed pre-pandemic to now? "The pandemic caused us to shift the focus of our research in the Managing the Future of Work project more toward questions of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
New Venture Competition. Parents are lining up. “We sold our inventory nine months faster than we’d expected,” Saigal says. The Question: Kudos has been selling directly to consumers through its website, in keeping with other eco-friendly diaper startups, and is seeing... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
climate change and electrification. Over the summer, Amrit worked directly with the management team of a major US utility on defining their long-term growth strategy including handling of fossil assets (e.g.... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
are in the midst of what is often described as a gold rush. Is there any danger that firms will fly so high that they may spin out of control? A: The book is built around a number of the tensions that are inherent in all businesses — profit and View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
can be low growth and declining margins. The key challenge in aligning marketing activities with corporate strategy is to develop a set of metrics to be used by top executives and the board that measure the impact of marketing activities... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
at the time that the company is redesigning its business processes, organization, and information technology infrastructure to support aggressive growth and increased complexity. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
optimist builds on incremental achievements and a sense of positive movement. Choose optimists to lead growth activities in your family organization. Entrepreneurs, for example, are much more likely to be optimists. But if you choose an... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
that look, they sell a lot of great drugs, but some of them happen to be selling opioids. April: I'm curious what you see as the long-term consequences of those changes in the job world and in the business sector. Sheryl: Well, I think... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
under-invest in those firm attributes that may enhance long-term performance, such as human capital and technology (proxied by intangible assets in our paper). Indeed we do find evidence that ethnically Chinese firms invest far less in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
well as strategists and policy makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50820 in press Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being Long-term Health Implications of Students' Friendship Formation During the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne