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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
graduates in the future to the many activities under way at HBS - not only at Soldiers Field, but around the world. In addition to these three initiatives, I would like to tell you about our progress on a fourth area of profound significance: community standards. Our...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of...
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- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
should consider not only the churn probability of customers, but also how much they spend, the likelihood that they will respond to a retention offer, and the cost of the offer itself. Gupta's predictive model takes all these factors into...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
he said, adding that it "always" takes four to five years for the right business model to emerge. "That's another reason why it's so difficult for established companies to make the transition and become a leader in an...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
California. How is the California market being served today? Does your model (people) allow for significant differentiation? Does the California marketplace have an abundance (compared to other markets) of the skilled employees you will...
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- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
technique. Also included in each toolkit is a spreadsheet supplement that contains sample problems; interactive graphs and tables that illuminate the concept visually; and a prebuilt Excel model that guides users in conducting...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
startup after graduation. Through my experiences with BEI and CLP, I've realized that addressing climate change requires more than just technological advancements and capital funding. We need a business model that can incentivize...
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- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
amount of information on startups, from financial projections to customer retention metrics, to decide whether a company had a realistic pathway to hypergrowth. As an entrepreneur, my co-founders and I spent time ideating revenue models...
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- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
“As an investor, I’ve transitioned from a model that solely maximizes returns to one in which I hope to get great returns and provide a social good. Our team now mentors companies to build their social impact in addition to their...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of capital and the demand for financing. The book's final chapter suggests areas for further study. "Much is not yet known about the venture capital industry," write Gompers and Lerner, who note that one open question is the extent to which the U.S. View Details
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
equipped to solve the problem. It has spurred “Commonwealth Connect,” utilized in more than 40 communities statewide and has become a model for citizen engagement around the world. “The innovation Chris has injected into City Hall in his...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
commission rates. Strategic planning was the newest and the best management tool. A young HBS professor named Michael Porter was giving fascinating lectures on competitiveness. In those days before the kinder and gentler CEO came into fashion, the command-and-control...
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Desmond Wong
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
are agencies' revenue models and their incentives to produce credible and accurate ratings? And what fault lines do you see in this process? A: Three different revenue models have been tried or proposed for...
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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's first View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
ideas. For the projects I worked, I had to make lots of Excel models to clearly distill complex information. I applied the same principals I used as a programmer to make the models clean and succinct so that...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Technology Adoption Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf. Elsevier, forthcoming Abstract We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Transforming Health Care Delivery
organization model -mental health models -patient referrals -health care delivery systems -scheduling optimization -care coordination View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look - September 2007
Our thanks to MBA 1976 classmates John Adams, Dottie Stephenson (both Section C), Sam Yates (Section D), and many others who provided details about this model rocket launch in Harvard Stadium. Yates wrote: “We had a first-year Marketing...
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- 1990
- Chapter
Measurement, Coordination and Learning in a Multi-plant Network
By: W. B. Chew, K. B. Clark and T. Bresnahan
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Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Organizational Structure;
Networks;
Business Model;
Measurement and Metrics;
Cooperation
Chew, W. B., K. B. Clark, and T. Bresnahan. "Measurement, Coordination and Learning in a Multi-plant Network." In Measures for Manufacturing Excellence, edited by Robert S. Kaplan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990.