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- 15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State
lecturer in Executive Education who also has a background in the civil service in his native Canada, worked with the State Department to design the custom program. Career employees in government agencies...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism
By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Problem Definition: Employee lateness and absenteeism pose challenges for businesses, particularly in the retail industry, where punctuality is vital for optimal store operations and customer service. This paper relates employee lateness and absenteeism with...
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Kwon, Caleb, and Ananth Raman. "The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism." Working Paper, August 2023.
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Phillip Jones
needed to help the United States prepare its response to the attack. “They said,” recollects Phillip, “that this was their duty. It was hard, but it also inspired me View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
Accountability, a required course for first-year MBA students that examines the responsibilities business leaders have to their shareholders, customers, employees, and to...
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
and a serious sober part, responsible too, then looking forward to unknown duties & strange scenes, now those duties are familiar. . . . Then not even a clerk now a merchant & a head man of a firm. Truly I...
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- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
scorecards to align the organization? How can we ensure that our people understand our strategy? How do we use the scorecard to improve how we conduct our management meetings? An OSM typically emerges when...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
underemployed. It’s not a “charity thing,” Austin says. “There are possibilities here to do something that is socially good and yet is still being very responsible to the...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly...
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Jennifer Gillespie
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
effective pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most...
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- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
offering items at a high initial price and then marking them down weeks later "insulting." He also eliminated coupons, something Macy's did in 2007, only to reverse the decision after unhappy customers...
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- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
entwined into your unique business model that competitors wouldn't be able to readily implement it even if they knew what it was." Khadija Khan suggested that we let the recipient decide, saying that "There is really no need for...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
gone and won't contaminate their water or crops, and for our project costs. At the moment, we’re seeing conventional carbon storage projects that are required to monitor for 50 years or so, but who is going View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
simple question: “What business are you in?” As an example of marketing myopia he cited railroads that “let others take customers away from them because they assumed themselves to be in the railroad business...
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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the...
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by Paul Michelman
- 01 Oct 1997
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Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give...
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Nancy O. Perry
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Funds" (Journal of Finance, forthcoming). Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to brief the United States Congress on innovation policy, 2020. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
"That means giving up control." As Avery explores in the new HBS case The Tate's Digital Transformation, the museum's response to that challenge was to jump in with...
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- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
of the industry, but now it's responsible for much of the growth trajectory." The Guardians And The Entrepreneurs So how did the Swiss watchmakers know when to re-embrace mechanical watches? According...
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