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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
http://hbr.org/product/the-novartis-malaria-initiative/an/314103-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-082 Managing Change at Axis Bank (A) Axis Bank is India's third largest private sector bank. In April 2009, Shikha Sharma, an outsider, was appointed as its CEO.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers will see their compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
deepened during the early 1990s, after he moved his family to New York from Provo, Utah for a big job with Morgan Stanley. One day he found himself sitting on a bench, immobilized: he worried whether he could aptly advise the CEO, whether he could get traders and View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
transformative—both personally and intellectually—and recognizes the power of her time at HBS, the case method, and the extensive network of friends who remain so important to her. Her service on various University boards—including the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
five times faster than the United Breaks Guitars video. The reason, it seemed, was that it spread not from person to person, but by algorithm. It spread because the algorithm noticed that if the song was served to people on TikTok, many... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
cases where a truck will need to be driven by a human or a cash register will need a person to operate it, but will you need as many humans? The answer is “no.” And will the unemployment rate increase at some point? I suspect it will.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
should systematically work with community groups and local leaders so they feel intense personal and tangible stakes in the proposal. Detailed preliminary discussions with construction trades should make the huge amount of new work... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
policies, agreements, and plans, as well as forums (like boards, family councils, and annual meetings of the owners) to develop the plans, agreements, rules, and policies, to address important issues and to work out differences. One very wise View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 21 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree
been with the wonderful faculty at both schools. Whether it’s questions about your career, personal development, or understanding course content, the professors at both schools invest the time to give you... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
little performance variability—because the tasks are standard, because the firm or industry has reduced variability, or because the business model limits the bandwidth of performance variance. Think about the difference between sales personnel at Nordstrom, where View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Abstract—Many experiments have found that participants take more investment risk if they see returns less frequently, see portfolio-level returns (rather than each individual asset’s returns), or see long-horizon (rather than one-year)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
investment performance of passive maturity transformation strategies over this period may mask the underperformance of the specialized bank activities. See Juliane’s other research here and Erik’s other research here . More Info Brokers... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
that more intensive people management is a worthwhile investment of a founder’s time.” Effective human resource management is more than just keeping the paperwork flowing. “You also need to focus on the strategic part of managing people... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new online View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organizations and others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
tranches. Overall, a one standard deviation reduction in average time on the market decreases the interest rate for institutional loans by over 30 basis points per annum. While this effect is significantly larger for loan tranches bought by structured View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
will be valued by the company. Be realistic about whether you are a good match for at least some of what the company is seeking. Step 2: Prepare Your Personal Elevator Pitch You will need materials that describe who you are as a potential... View Details
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
promotion. What she did know was that the economy was weak and she had invested ten years at the company, so she was hoping for the best. When I finished the story, Howard shook his head, kicked a pinecone out of his path, and grumbled,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni
life and professional career. Forge New Connections to Each Other Forge New Connections to Each Other Build and deepen relationships with a powerful global network of alumni who share your values and experiences. Stay connected, collaborate, and leverage these... View Details