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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
we want to convey." Marketing efforts will include creating new publications targeted at specific audiences, as well as sending HBS representatives to colleges and universities to discuss business-education options with undergraduates.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
of key business functions (finance, marketing, human resources, IT, and law), specific strategic options (M&A, reorganization, and joint ventures), and popular tools for analyzing strategic situations (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma).... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
its suspension, consistent with the importance of reputation. Larger firms and those with greater growth options were more likely to leave, also consistent with the reputation argument. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
case study of a project in a Scandinavian life insurance company where the value network, an alternate value configuration analysis tool to the established value chain, was used to represent the company's activities and identify and evaluate the strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
drawn from across participating Harvard schools. Participate in several optional field trips on selected weekends or evenings across the semester; planned destinations include the Arnold Arboretum, the Harvard Art Museum, the Harvard... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
a novel customer rewards and loyalty app that has already gained commercial traction? Having nearly reached the end of Hatch’s runway, should he accept his partners’ offers to fund another Hatch vehicle, or should he pursue one of his other career View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Public Economics The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask By: Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie Abstract—Individuals frequently exploit "flexibility" built into decision environments to give less. They use uncertainty to justify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
startup whose founders are considering changes to spur growth. The options include changes to the product line, to pricing, and to sales management practices. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817006-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
actions the activist investors took to get the attention of management, the board, and other investors. The businesses, secure transportation, and home security monitoring are described from both a business strategy and a financial perspective so that the potential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
is the best option we have to avoid the adversarialism of what we call the transaction crisis. But self-support takes a lot of time. In a commercial world based on advocacy instead of adversarialism, our choices will change. In a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
popular social network services such as Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn had to decide whether to incorporate social networking into its value proposition. Third, in an increasingly global business environment, it had to weigh the option of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
important extreme features figure into the decisions other people make. “You see someone choose an option with an extreme feature and you think that must have been the most important feature underlying the choice,” says Barasz, who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
less expensive for cities to maintain in the long-term. Macomber is putting his commitment to joining the fields of finance and design into practice through his research and HBS case studies, including exploring redevelopment options for... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
continue with additional tests to clarify and expand on the results. "At this point we have more questions than answers," Fletcher says. One idea is to give test participants the option to choose a man or woman for a partner,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
(libertarianism). Think of parents fashioning choices for children in ways that lead to acceptable choices instead of commanding them to do something. Contrast this with what happened in the related housing and credit meltdowns. Borrowers were confronted with a growing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
What's striking about this stealth strategy is that Apple didn't affiliate the product with a specific alternative category. It simply suggested that it was not a PC—a strategy that not only disassociates the Mini from other low-priced, commoditized PCs, but leaves... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
spent." Jerome Golden even raised the question of whether a new system should provide a defined benefit (as it essentially does now) as opposed to basing individual returns on a defined contribution. As he put it, "The debate around 'private investment... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
female grads take time out from the workforce at some point in their careers, she said. Her program, Charting Your Course, was designed to assist many alumnae who have taken time off to either raise families or pursue other options more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace