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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
doctors had to switch from their traditional specialties to treat patients affected by the virus. Given the isolation of coronavirus patients from family members, many doctors and nurses who were not accustomed to providing end-of-life... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
the world's largest company, primarily focused on its treatment of workers. The recent spate of books on the company is no exception. Some are overtly critical, for example Anthony Bianco's The Bully of Bentonville: How the High View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
would create net benefits for society that contain salient costs frequently lack enough support for enactment because losses loom larger than gains. To address this consequence of loss aversion, we propose a policy-bundling technique in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
or internal to the organization. However, the path to greater latitude on the job is not short. It involves, as Pradipta Saha commented, "Selecting the right entry-level employee ." We have found, for example, that high... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
low factor costs of production? Or a developed economy realizing productivity gains in totally different ways, for example, by leveraging already high factor costs through... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
graduating, I worked briefly for a Cambridge-based education startup named NuVu, before switching into management consulting and joining McKinsey. I spent time at McKinsey’s Dubai and New York offices, where I worked in a variety of... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
geographically by rolling up other companies in adjacent territories. Usually, the operating unit remains local if the relationship with local customers is important. What the acquiring company brings is some combination of lower operating View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
Day. I insisted on an oversized teddy bear. She laughed and told me to grow up. The school bell rang and we rushed off to class. I bought the bear anyway, but soon had a new girlfriend. It was 2005. She was 15 and I was 16. A year later I graduated from View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
unverifiable. As an experiment for this article, he used several of those resources to find the true cost of a car at a dealership. The prices delivered by the consumer sites didn’t match. “I can’t trust the data,” he says. Can this... View Details
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
of high flyers at the expense of team goals." Platon suggested that the presence of brilliant jerks may be a warning sign, commenting that "brilliance often is frustrated in environments where mediocrity is most prevalent."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
I grew up in Brookline, MA but spent a year of high school studying abroad in Zaragoza, Spain. When I came back from my year abroad I was looking for something to do for the summer where I could speak Spanish, and through a family friend... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
cost and in less time. I will also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change. Some of the popular solutions to these challenges (e.g., Medicare for All, free community college, and elimination of fossil fuels) seem... View Details
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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online
—and pass a final exam . The CORe final exam is a three-hour, multiple-choice, computer-based assessment created by HBS faculty and administered online. A passing score on all three courses is required to earn a Credential of Readiness, and grades are assigned on the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
economy characterized by high growth, increased employment, and low inflation. It was supposedly driven by the productivity gains of an economy based less on heavy industry and more on service, as well as organizations that were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
company in January 2001. In the late 1990s, the company increased prices and lost many consumers to less expensive soup brands. Rather than bring prices back down, to maintain earnings Campbell cut costs by reducing advertising and laying... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
not where the One Medical model acts, and that’s not where the telehealth model is. So, telehealth doesn’t become a way to bend the cost curve as much as a way to make health care easier to access. There’s this aspiration in health care... View Details