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- September 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
SMARTBITES (A)
By: Michael Roberts, Jeronimo Silva and Amar Bhide
The case describes a Turkish brother-sister team who are evaluating the option of acquiring and operating a franchise of a US bakery/cafe in Turkey. They are comparing this option to that of simply starting a similar business. View Details
Keywords: Franchising; Start-up; Franchise Ownership; Family Ownership; Business Startups; Cost vs Benefits; Multinational Firms and Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey; United States
Roberts, Michael, Jeronimo Silva, and Amar Bhide. "SMARTBITES (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-074, September 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- Web
Rembrand M. Koning | Working Knowledge
and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard , where he leads a group of interdisciplinary researchers studying how entrepreneurs can accelerate and shift the rate and direction of science, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit... View Details
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 05 Sep 2018
- HBS Online
HBX Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: September 5, 2018 - October 17, 2018 View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Jonathan and Katja make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with venture capital firms... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
they'd never hired a Harvard MBA before." Initially denied an on-campus interview with Apple due to her lack of experience, Dubinsky persevered and succeeded in meeting informally with the company's recruiter. Soon afterward, she became the Apple View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Podcast: Should You Consider the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program?
Last month, HBS and SEAS announced the launch of a new MS/MBA joint degree. As a prospective student, you might be wondering what the benefit is of pursuing both degrees. The founding professors of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but certain types of smaller practices... View Details
- May 1987 (Revised November 1998)
- Case
John Deere Component Works (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Production; Budgets and Budgeting; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Consumer Products Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "John Deere Component Works (A)." Harvard Business School Case 187-107, May 1987. (Revised November 1998.)
- 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details
- October 2004
- Case
Sales Force Training at Arrow Electronics (B)
By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Aaron Zimmerman
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Salesforce Management; Competition
Barro, Jason R., Brian J. Hall, and Aaron Zimmerman. "Sales Force Training at Arrow Electronics (B)." Harvard Business School Case 905-042, October 2004.
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
attention of the IRS, given the loss of tax revenues, but why is the SEC interested? First, this dual-reporting system creates significant confusion. In effect, one-third of costs (the tax claim on pretax profits) is not reported clearly to investors. Second, lower... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- October 2011 (Revised April 2017)
- Teaching Note
Raleigh & Rosse: Measures to Motivate Exceptional Service (Brief Case)
By: Robert L. Simons and Michael Mahoney
Teaching Note for 4353. View Details
Keywords: Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Goal Setting; Compensation; Incentives; Motivation; Sales Compensation; Strategy And Execution; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits
- 12 Dec 2022
- News
What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these five attributes allows not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
will gain an understanding of the latest developments in operations, why operations can provide a competitive advantage, and how to develop an implementation strategy that takes the learning from the course back into their companies to make a difference. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and the offices with a lagging health story will lag.” To convey to managers the benefits... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lab Work
After 16 years at the Australian technology-transfer organization UniQuest, managing director David Henderson (MBA 1989) is moving on to new challenges. Looking back on the experience of shepherding technologies from the university to the... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation from financial performance is not an answer. At issue is the short-term/long-term balance of stockholder interests." Srinivasan suggested that a program should contain both. Phillip Gelman added, "If managers were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett