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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Certificate of Specialization Prove your mastery of strategy Earn by: completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
basis for specifying the responsibilities of business managers. The second is framing the role of business in society by looking to the values realized by the basic building... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
subjects as geography, history, astronomy, and literature. A 1941 graduate of the University of Iowa, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Christensen received an MBA from... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
negotiating set-up. Negotiators sometimes can discover hidden sources of value and then craft agreements to unlock that value and overcome barriers created by poor deal design.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
by two forms of organizational visibility. Firms with greater domain-specific visibility are especially vulnerable to stakeholder criticism and therefore less prone to selective disclosure. In contrast, more generically visible firms are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
reorganization, managers can steer firms into liquidations that harm junior creditors, employees, and customers. Under Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code, judges may grant that request without creditor consent if managers present a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Flows... Cash Conversion Cycle Time Value of Money Featured Exercises Balance sheet and financial ratios exercises Calculate net present value... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
a context apart from the complexity and sensitivity of their own company; this allows executives to engage in important discussions about, for example, risk trade-offs and relationships with peers, subjects... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
suitcases at the airport. But now agencies are finding that subtle “nudges” can motivate behavior much better than ads, fines, or deadlines. Nudges, or small changes to the context in which decisions are made, are the subject View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Art-of-Negotiation/Michael-Wheeler/9781451690446 August 2013 Current Directions in Psychological Science Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off By: Dunn, Elizabeth W.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2011
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Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
bank accounts at all—they wanted effective ways to send money home to their families. The case's key lesson is the importance of meeting the real needs of your target audience,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
the thing you have to understand is, and I said this, in various ways in the book, the rules of startups, particularly from the financial side, are written to benefit investors, right? When investors put View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
unknown. Excellence: When achieving high standards matters more than short-term performance. Altruism: When a company serves customers, employees, and others first and assumes that profit will follow. Making money—a lot of it—may result... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
to lose money if they grant price discounts in-store to inquiring customers—although some will do so to appease an angry customer or through a sense of fairness. In some cases, however, self-matching is the... View Details
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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
deposited money that was released to sellers only after the buyer confirmed the authenticity of the goods. Once Alibaba learned how to manage money, it used this capability to create Alipay and become one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
lax law enforcement, and there is a lot of evidence that their capital markets are some of the weakest in the world. We have some of the strongest capital markets because we... View Details