Filter Results:
(1,091)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,091)
- Faculty Publications (151)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,091)
- Faculty Publications (151)
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Using Excel 2007: A Step-by-Step Approach Harvard Business School Note 109-052 The objective of this note is to provide a set of easy, step-by-step guides for some analytical techniques that are useful in the analysis of cases discussed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
things that talented managers seek: exciting work, personal development, a balanced lifestyle, a great company, and recognition and rewards for individual contributions. It is a war led by top management, but carried out at all levels in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
“Performer” mind-set. Performers can excel in well-defined areas and are rewarded by big companies, but Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models and trust their insights enough to make... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
$22 billion on R&D, while Apple spent a relatively paltry $2.5 billion. And yet, since that launch, Apple has far outperformed Nokia in terms of both its profit margins and its reputation for innovation. So what gives? “This was a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational change with relatively modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2017
- Blog Post
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS
community with others in my section. By design, the emphasis on the section experience forced me outside of my comfort zone. And I’m so happy it did. Being the Student Association Co-President has been my most rewarding experience... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
really try to think of the child and the community as a whole and weave together a set of services so tight that no one within our grasp will fall through the holes,” Owusu-Kesse explains. Those safety net services include a “baby college” that View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
time, examiners were rewarded for issuing more patents, since that brought in more money. The quality of examiners’ work decreased accordingly. This change, combined with the creation of the CAFC, put sand in the system. Patents became... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
is the case, both empirically and theoretically. We provide an analytical model of exchange when there are many highly sensitized patients and show that large cycles of exchange or long chains can significantly increase efficiency when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real estate while View Details
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
empowering differences. Using multidisciplinary methods, his research uncovers the experiences of people—especially of those who are marginalized due to race, body type and other axes of identity—when engaging with fashion images and... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
Lindsay McCurren (MBA '19) grew up in Grand Rapids, MI and attended Michigan State. Prior to HBS, Lindsay spent over 6 years working in Corporate Finance at General Mills. Lindsay came to HBS with her family and is the chair of the moMBA group on campus. Lindsay is the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform that already has exclusive access to content may prefer to relinquish control over pricing and associated revenues from the content to the content... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
supplies, food, and other essential commodities. They’re doing everything from providing critical funding to donating space for medical services, as the ICCP Group did when it offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
accounting firms fiercely lobbied Congress to block new regulations that would have limited auditors' ability to provide consulting services. Appearing at congressional hearings in 2000, accounting firm CEOs assured legislators that no... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
"best places to work" both in the U.S. and the U.K., is related positively to economic performance. Further, intrinsic rewards, such as capable colleagues and recognition for good work, play a larger role in worker satisfaction than extrinsic View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett