Filter Results
:
(1,786)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,786)
- People (2)
- News (268)
- Research (1,148)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (719)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,786)
- People (2)
- News (268)
- Research (1,148)
- Events (20)
- Multimedia (9)
- Faculty Publications (719)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000...
View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around...
View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
the developed world. And is very promising in showing a pathway to address greenhouse gas emissions in emerging markets. So yes, there are many moments of optimism and of excitement, as we see this new Industrial Revolution unfold....
View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
with every link in the chain benefiting with endless opportunities for continuous innovation and improvements. That, of course, translates into job creation and retention. Without this, we all stagnate and lose that uniquely American competitive drive, can-do attitude,...
View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this definition contributes to the existing proposed...
View Details
Keywords:
Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Authors:Zvi Bodie, Robert Merton, and David Cleeton Publication:N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- Web
Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
2025 J 3.0 Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture Tomomichi Amano Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Managing Customers for Growth Eva Ascarza Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business Elie Ofek Fall...
View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet...
View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
balance sheet instead of raising our cash dividends or buying back shares?; Do we have the optimal capital structure, with the lowest weighted after-tax cost of total capital, including debt and equity?; Do we have an operating plan that...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's resources, with an aim of achieving an...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
the facilities in which we do invest. The Ontario airport is overbuilt. We should emphasize intermodalism. Emphasize a user pay system. We need to be more efficient, direct our resources that are being spent in less than optimal ways...
View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
after all. Many companies find it optimal to pick their niche rather than to try to completely diversify across risks. Q: How do you think the South African economy will evolve over the next five to ten years? A: A major test for South...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
devising solutions to society’s most urgent problems. When I talk about leadership generally, I am talking about you specifically. I have great optimism for the ways in which you will embody our mission as leaders who make a difference in...
View Details
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Hide Details Concepts Coopetition: The Complementor-Competitor Dynamic Risks Defensive Strategies Navigating Regulations Featured Exercise Explain the benefits and risks of partnering with platform companies Evaluate the optimal means of...
View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
leaders that I've worked with, what have been the common denominators in terms of optimizing the ratio of leader A and leader B." The five principles were developed with great intentionality. The first two around purpose and making sure...
View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We also show that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger. Lastly, we find that appointing firms are more likely to have management on...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
that the greater uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We also show that improvements to the emissions intensity of the "dirty" type can increase the emissions intensity of the firm's optimal capacity portfolio....
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel