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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015

from packaged software to a subscription service model. Despite this accounting transition, HBP’s revenues grew more than 4 percent in fiscal 2015, exceeding our forecast for the sixth consecutive year. HBP outperformed our expectations... View Details

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

other products.” Like for instance, delivering e-commerce packages or being cash-in/cash-out points for financial services in a market with high underbanked rates. And so totally reinvented the model, learning in some ways from what... View Details

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

proposed that "the board could tie the CEO's exit package with the grooming of a successor." B.V. Krishnamurthy said that "the ultimate solution may be similar to the job rotation concept of the Japanese companies in their... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

seems likely that Brazil will work with Canada to arrive at mutually agreeable financing packages to be used by each country. HBS professors Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro recently co-wrote a business case with Brett Laschinger on the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

when putting together offer packages for students. C – Company Conversations. You might know Company Conversations as Coffee Chats at other MBA schools. These 1:1 or small group meetings are a great way to connect with students and get to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

set of packaged data available on which to base the decision. Research outside the case may be discouraged; there may not be time for it in a curriculum packed with cases designed to encourage students to acquire decision making habits.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

job. It shouldn’t matter that it’s not packaged in a degree of four years,” says Rewane, who was recently named a Social Impact Fellow by Gerson Lehrman Group Inc. Her enthusiasm for the project began in earnest at HBS, where she met her... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

partners who add value, or who could add value, consistent with customer needs; and this means working out a compensation package that is in tune with their effort and performance. The beauty of the channel stewardship discipline is that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

“Some of the other big megatrends are AI and autonomous cars, and how they will affect the transportation sector. We also have drones, and when we’re delivering packages and using drones instead of trucks on the highway, it’s really going... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

Credit: malerapaso For as much as American politicians and their constituents complain about taxes, the truth is that tax reform packages to address those complaints are rare—the last major reform of the tax code was passed in 1986 under... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most popular minister. However, the future of Chile's fiscal policy was questionable with the election of a new president, Sebastian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

the dark of evening. “I got a package here; just need a signature,” he says, straining for a look inside the house. Whitman tilts her phone 90 degrees, switching from landscape to portrait mode, which triggers a shift in perspective: Now... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

people to tend to extended personal challenges and "recharge their batteries." And of course they include one of the more popular benefits, maternity (and paternity) leave. The debate centers in part on whether all members of an organization should have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

their IT problems, Upton explained, managers are faced with a "spectrum of solutions." At one end is packaged software available off-the-shelf to all comers, including your competitors. Trouble is, when the same product is in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

around and talk about the items—a process that leads to more purchases. Understand that shoppers are on a mental journey. "Most of store managers' attention is on what happens between the aisle and the register, and that's where so much money is spent on research... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

stalled right now. As the book argues, macroeconomic reforms and stimulus packages are not going to be the answer. There's still little real change in Japan on the government side, other than some marginal improvements. The response on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

consumers and hosts, as well as the effects on hotels, will likely become less pronounced. Just as Airbnb is adding experience packages to its home-rental offerings, so too are hotels such as Marriott International. And maybe hotels could... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

eligibility for a severance package valued at $47 million? “In the old days, your personal behavior was not seen as relevant to your role as a corporate leader, but now, if you’re a candidate for CEO of a large company, your personal... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

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