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- 12 Feb 2015
- Video
The Real Rick's Cafe – Building a Business in Casablanca
- June 2024
- Supplement
Heritage Holding (B)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: The summer of 2022 marked a crucial period for Heritage Holding co-founders, Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. The... View Details
Abstract: The summer of 2022 marked a crucial period for Heritage Holding co-founders, Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. The... View Details
Keywords:
Acquisition;
Small Business;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Business Education;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Private Equity;
North America
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Heritage Holding (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-724, June 2024.
- March 22, 2012
- Article
Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'
By: Tsedal Neeley
Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. In turn, these differences generate disruptions to team cohesion and top...
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Neeley, Tsedal. "Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 22, 2012).
- January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey
Harvard Real Estate Services executives need to design the 2005 Graduate Student Housing Survey for maximum impact in anticipation of Harvard's long-term expansion project in Allston. Students are challenged to help executives in charge to (1) draw the lessons from...
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Wathieu, Luc R. "The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey." Harvard Business School Case 505-059, January 2005. (Revised June 2005.)
- 28 Jul 2019
- News
6 Vacation Habits That Defend From Future Burnouts
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
furnishings and home entertainment will hold up well, as uncertainty prompts us to stay at home but also stay connected with family and friends. Now may be the time to drop your weaker distributors and...
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by John Quelch
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
Summary India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. To seize opportunities and sustain success under shifting global business conditions, companies need executives who are exceptional leaders—confident...
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Faculty & Research
Digital Transformation By: Iavor Bojinov , Edward McFowland III , François Candelon, Nikolina Jonsson and Emer Moloney This case study explores the opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation journey of French wine and spirits company Pernod Ricard....
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- 24 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
the face of a crippled economy. “Many Japanese companies are not that popular with Wall Street types because they are not as focused on gaining superior profitability and maximizing shareholder value,” he says. “They talk consistently...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new system. We made it View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
"In the end, Enron was at the center of a truly delinquent society. Once Enron's ethical drift took hold, its collapse was only a matter of time," says HBS professor emeritus Malcolm S. Salter. As he explains in this Q&A and...
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- 17 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024)
rewarding. Although physical assets such as ships and planes are vital, I quickly recognized that humans are the most important asset that the military has. Because of that, I dedicated a tremendous amount of View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time By: Whillans, A.V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Research Focus
By: Anita Elberse
My research focuses on "creative industries," defined as industries that supply goods that we commonly associate with artistic, cultural, or entertainment value -- including book and magazine publishing, film, music, television, video games, the performing...
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Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity Decisions in Services
By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and customer sensitivity to service time. Our findings, using data from one of the largest financial services providers in...
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Keywords:
Customer Satisfaction;
Cost;
Standards;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Productivity;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Campbell, Dennis, and Frances X. Frei. "Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity Decisions in Services." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 2–19. (Lead Article.)
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
individual's behavior across different situations and over time (in the language of rational choice, character can be thought of as a stable system of preferences that informs the tradeoffs and choices an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
a tool . The problem is not the tool, but the user if the company were better run, you wouldn't need to bribe people to stay (but) there are times when the retention bonus is appropriate, such as when a...
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by Jim Heskett
- May 2020
- Article
Scalable Holistic Linear Regression
By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
We propose a new scalable algorithm for holistic linear regression building on Bertsimas & King (2016). Specifically, we develop new theory to model significance and multicollinearity as lazy constraints rather than checking the conditions iteratively. The resulting...
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Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Scalable Holistic Linear Regression." Operations Research Letters 48, no. 3 (May 2020): 203–208.
Sandlands Vineyards
Approximately 80% of the 9,000 wineries in the US breakeven or lose money. An even greater percentage, perhaps 90-95%, lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the capital employed). Tegan Passalacqua is a Californian winemaker who appears to have... View Details