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- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
Summing Up Are We Getting More Sensible About Management Incentives? Respondents to this month's column suggest ways of fixing or selectively using various methods of providing incentives to management. They join View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
The Entrepreneurial Journey through NVC | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Entrepreneurial Journey through NVC More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
experience with a debt collector, it reduces the risk of regulatory scrutiny and may incline them more toward doing business with the bank again in the future. Lastly,... View Details
- August 1988 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Dunkin' Donuts (E): 1988 Distribution Strategies
Dunkin' Donuts is exploring various methods of increasing distribution. Possibilities involving new outlets include area development contracts, subfranchising, regional rollout strategies, and an increase in company owned stores. Possibilities focusing on existing... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Franchise Ownership; Distribution Channels; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Kaufmann, Patrick J. "Dunkin' Donuts (E): 1988 Distribution Strategies." Harvard Business School Case 589-017, August 1988. (Revised December 2000.)
- June 1997
- Case
Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
Once the CABG care path is implemented and other care paths begun, hospital staff and administration examine the resulting data. Further methods of improving care and reducing cost are presented for analysis. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Policy; Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
Wheelwright, Steven C., and Mikelle Eastley. "Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)." Harvard Business School Case 697-021, June 1997.
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 2021
- Article
Oh's 8-Universality Criterion Is Unique
Using the methods developed for the proof that the 2-universality criterion is unique, we partially characterize criteria for the n-universality of positive-definite integer-matrix quadratic forms. We then obtain the uniqueness of Oh’s 8-universality criterion as an... View Details
Keywords: N-universal Lattice; 8-universal Lattice; Universality Criteria; Quadratic Forms; Additively Indecomposable; Mathematical Methods
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Oh's 8-Universality Criterion Is Unique." Kyungpook Mathematical Journal 61, no. 3 (September 2021): 455–459.
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
illegally obtained. Outside the financial institutions, recent cases involving a range of products — such as appliances, helicopters, and gems — demonstrate that a variety of companies aren't vigilant enough... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Strategy without Numbers
Functional analysis as set forth in the last chapter decomposes a technical system into functional components that do things to advance the system’s purpose and the goals of its designers. Functional analysis in turn can be used to construct value structure maps... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Structure Mapping; Value Capture; Information Technology; Organizations; Strategy; Value Creation
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Strategy without Numbers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-040, September 2020.
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
the fly.” What was your favorite HBS case and why? Smith: “In our first-year marketing class we did a case on Planters Nuts, which got into an almonds-versus-peanuts battle,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
business opportunities touch politics. Can you become involved in energy without having a really tight relationship with the government? Probably not. We recently wrote a case on Turkcell, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The Hunger Relief System | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- October 2016
- Technical Note
Product Development Fundamentals
By: Marco Iansiti, Michael Toffel, Kerry Herman and Julia Kelley
This note introduces key managerial issues in new product development. It describes the product development funnel and alternative approaches to structuring product development teams including functional, lightweight, heavyweight, and autonomous/dedicated teams, which... View Details
Iansiti, Marco, Michael Toffel, Kerry Herman, and Julia Kelley. "Product Development Fundamentals." Harvard Business School Technical Note 617-024, October 2016.
- 23 Mar 2023
- Video
BiGS Idea: Accounting for Climate
Yuval Spiegler
Yuval is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior and Sociology at HBS. He studies why are similar organizations dissimilarly diverse, especially focusing on extra-organizational dimensions that shape labor market racial and gender segregation. Yuval uses... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
capitalist Ray Rothrock discuss the case for using the next generation of nuclear power to combat the dual challenges of climate change and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
methods with an emphasis on policy and practice. When combined with Harvard Business School’s Masters in Business Administration (MBA), students will demonstrate exceptional aptitude in the areas of policy... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 15 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work
You feel your career stalling, with no clear path for advancement or a raise. You know the right conversation, artfully navigated, with the right individual at the right time... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 2008
- Chapter
Assessing Creativity and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile and Jennifer Mueller
Amabile, T. M., and Jennifer Mueller. "Assessing Creativity and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of Creativity." In Handbook of Organizational Creativity, edited by Jing Zhou and Christina E. Shalley. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008.