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- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
oversight, and compliance. What Are The Emotional Needs Of People Who Lay Off Fellow Employees? Conducting Layoffs: 'Necessary Evils' at Work "The core challenge for everyone who performs necessary evils comes from having to do two... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
mission—indeed, our imperative—for ninety-four years. Hall: I teach a compensation course, and yet I always begin it with the idea that organizations exist to create value for society. I want to try to center things around the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
research also need some sort of core organization inside the firm to coordinate and leverage their outreach." Can you capture enough value to reinvest? Xerox missed a slew of golden opportunities. Intel... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Harden worked on the acquisition and creation of a number of media brands, including Hello Sunshine. “Reese has this incredible ability to step back and ask a question that shifts my thinking,” Harden says. “We’ve come to consider curiosity a View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business practice; and the dissemination... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
respect to Genentech, the pros and cons of merging the two companies with different cultures, the value of Genentech, and the tactics of a hostile tender offer. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210040-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
Publishing (HBP) and Executive Education, as well as philanthropic income from gifts, HBS was solidly cash flow positive, extending a record that began more than a decade ago. This cash flow enabled HBS to fund its core educational... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
others, and personal accountability. These are the values we believe are essential to effective and principled leadership. Our goal is to make HBS a living model of these standards, not only in our classrooms but in everything we do. In... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
apply it to their own work. "It's a core question for all of you: Are you in the business of rationality or emotionality?" he said. "If empathy is lacking in a nonprofit such as a hospital, what hope is there in retail?" To that end, one... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
work on observable substitutability, we show that multi-division choice functions with flexible allotments enable stable and strategy-proof matching; these results illustrate the value of clearly mapping when stable and strategy-proof... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
seller the decision to waive rights involves giving up the value associated with a confidentiality right in exchange for an increase in buyer participation. Our analysis incorporates an endogenous interaction among three critical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiate in the right order. Sorting Out The Possibilities When Steve Perlman was preparing to launch WebTV in 1996, he faced a critical sequencing dilemma. He had obtained seed funding, developed the technology to bring the Internet to ordinary television sets,... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
products—therapeutic hot and cold packs. How might an innovative branding campaign, centered on the company's core value of "Work Is Good," enable it to effectively compete with them? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
with shale gas development can be incredibly disruptive locally, and fracking water usage clearly competes with local values and legacy uses. But shale gas production appears environmentally manageable, (including the risks from fugitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
a number of categories that will prove important when considering the CEO’s role: Direction: A core function of leadership is setting the strategy for the organization, and setting specific financial goals that the organization will seek... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of external funders who require MNC participation to ensure value maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
are two mechanisms by which this can happen: engaging the periphery may either change the information set of the core or help align incentives of multiple core actors. Engaging the periphery might be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
support operations in accordance with the donors' intentions and the terms of each gift. The University determines each year's endowment payout rate—that is, the percentage of the endowment's fair market value withdrawn and distributed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
point, and by itself is unlikely to be sufficient because this process does nothing to advance learning within the project in the interim. Other processes seek to create new information after the initial negative decision, which might enable a fuller examination of the... View Details