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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead. Prime Minister Naoko Kan's...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
climate change: policy, joining startups or building your own, investing, scaling new technologies in large corporations and beyond. Mitigating emissions requires reimagining entire sections of the economy - from where we live, what we eat, how we move and consume...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an...
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- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
excitement generated by the public source case made Koehn's team even more committed to filling in the gaps with personal feedback from Harpo management and, ideally, from Winfrey herself. Finally, events began to move very fast. The...
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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that...
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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’ environmental and occupational...
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by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
room. You will never regret it, and you'll build a strong reputation." Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991), managing director, Golden Seeds; blogger, Novofemina.com, Boston, Massachusetts I'd offer three ideas to female MBAs. First, take the time...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
based in Asia, Europe, and North America. Assisted by rich governments and by loans from development banks, the WDC would bring to impoverished areas technology, credit, access to world markets, and management know-how. Its projects would...
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by George C. Lodge
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
context of strategic changes taking place at HBS, looking at both the past year’s results and our plan for fiscal 2015. Fiscal 2014 in Review The HBS economic model starts with a faculty whose research brings them into contact with leaders and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
number of product unit sales needed, as two examples. The fictitious case protagonist, a business development manager at a leading money management firm, is looking to launch...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
investigate how changes in the management of the organ waiting list might impact the donation rate. We find that an organ allocation policy giving priority on waiting lists to those who previously registered as donors has a significant...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
Today's headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy, all the while losing money and U.S. market share. This most recent bout of bad news (coming after the...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
to software. "Everybody wants to make money in this sector, but no one's approaching it with a plan," he says. "Take the HR software vendors, for example. All those vendors did was say, 'Oh, how can we help health care...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Holdings, a $300 million fund with investments in several restaurant concepts including Tatte Bakery, CAVA, Life Alive, BJ’s Restaurants and Clover Food Labs. Christian, can you walk me through how the management team at Inspire Brands...
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