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- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was acquired by New York investment firm KKR. Shih discusses the... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
international operations over long periods of time. But that either/or characterization of globalization strategies is very broad. Finer-grained analysis of case studies—particularly of companies that have in various ways been global... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
monitoring" and entirely absent in those with "tight monitoring." The results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
ran a textile business before taking over Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries, which he continues to run jointly with her mother, Ellen Gordon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, business school was the natural next step. "When I started... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
people to act in ways that run counter to the best interests of their companies.—Michael C. Jensen Such cases of distorted decision making are legion in business. No doubt, you could list similar instances that you've observed—or perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
desperately, and in many cases unsuccessfully, trying to just get to the sidelines of the playing field? How do we draw the line on such exceptions? And who administers them? Who benefits most from a level playing field? A developing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new working paper, Shu asks the... View Details
- 16 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 16, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-041.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBioScale Harvard Business School Case 606-100 Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot and Interconnected Retail José... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
economic growth and job creation," groused one congressman during a House subcommittee hearing on OSHA last year, sharing the private frustrations of many employers. The debate over the agency has gone on for years, in part because there has been little evidence to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Molly Welch
cases and even the necessary transition to online learning. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A writer, either a novelist or a journalist. I loved books and was always interested in government and public policy. I... View Details
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
They would be strong candidates for inclusion in any organization's balanced scorecard. Among board committees, the audit committee has historically received the most attention. Not only are boards expected—and in case of publicly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn (MBA 1981), was changing the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
organized systems for improvement. Traditional structures and cultures within AHCs, although well suited to the tripartite missions of teaching, research, and clinical care, are not easily adaptable to the tasks of measuring, reporting, and improving quality. Here, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- What Do You Think?
Are We Ready for Self-Management?
specific task within a certain time frame." Self-management is perhaps an extreme case of what we have found, in our research, to be one of the features of high-performance work places that are most attractive to the people who work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
Senior Associate Dean, Director of Research, at the Harvard Business School. Professor Palepu's research and teaching focuses on strategy, governance, and valuation in a global context. Prof. Palepu has written numerous articles and case... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- Profile
Jay Bhandari
Coming to HBS is like... Going to Hogwarts. Much like the Hogwarts houses, students at HBS are sorted into sections, each with a different personality. Our pedagogy is rooted in hands-on learning—though our magic manifests in the form of View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
going to be "the century of Schumpeter," and I agree. The reason is that innovation and entrepreneurship are flowering all over the world in unprecedented fashion—not only in the well-publicized cases of China and India, but... View Details