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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Back to the Drawing Board by Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch (Harvard Business School Press) Corporate boards are frequent targets of criticism in the wake of recent corporate scandals. But in their new book, Back to the Drawing Board:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
introducing other new products like the Scooba a robot mop that are targeted to solve more difficult household chores.” Clocky’s sales have begun to flatten by 2010, when the follow-up case, “Nanda Home,” takes place. Revenues in 2009... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and interventions that directly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
we just need to understand what's going on, what the motivation is. Because we know that if we could target these groups of firms and improve their performance, there would be very important implications for business research and, most... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's ecosystem. This transformation is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
target individual observing the choices of a paired individual. The results showed that observing others, rather than being observed, led to the pattern of increased risk taking. The findings of the two studies indicate the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
executives need to figure out how the product, labor, and capital markets work—and don't work—in their target countries. This will help them understand the differences between home markets and those in developing countries. In addition,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
Tech Giants Can’t Win by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao. Copyright 2024 Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao. All rights reserved. You Might Also Like: Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig... View Details
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
Student Clubs Partner with one of the 50 career-related clubs on campus to engage with targeted groups of students. See all clubs Recruiting Contacts Work with a member of our office, focusing on your industry or location, to create a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
targets set in the Philippine Development Plan. Why does Manila Water need a climate change policy? Studies show that the water supply sector is one of the most directly affected by climate change. Our policy covers our commitment to (1)... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we should bring to the platform; to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
over 2 percent of our sales. And that exceeds the development aid as a percentage of GDP of many countries, where the agreed target should be .07 percent of GDP. Most countries are way below that. However, we cannot fix poor governance,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(unlike most of Antares's for-profit partners) that operates in five Latin American countries. It combines microfinance with a primary health platform targeted toward low-income women. The Pro Mujer partnership demonstrates how Antares... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
movement with a targeted strategy. This approach must change. We must direct this energy toward addressing the root cause of the problem—a political system festering with unhealthy competition. The first priority is Final-Five Voting—to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and the September 11th Fund. We asked Wei-Skillern to discuss the book and its practical applications for business leaders. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you and your coauthors write this book? Who is your View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked at Tesla as a design engineer and project manager. I had the opportunity to work on groundbreaking products alongside some of the smartest and most resilient people in the world.... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
presenting this case, I shared the impact that mass incarceration had on my life, and how it targets one community over another,” she says. “I’ve been a part of so many different socioeconomic backgrounds. I have seen that the lower your... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
problem. So everything we’re doing is based on providing affordable solutions for our targeted market. It’s a different approach, and not how technology guys typically think.” Kundu would know, as he himself is a technology guy. After... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
unambiguously reduced the firm's cash labor costs, by a significant amount—and at a time the other major airlines were laying off tens of thousands of employees. Q: Who can benefit by reading this book? A: I am trying to reach multiple audiences. Obviously one key... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
research can best help society by encouraging citizens to purchase products that will improve their own welfare. However, most researchers appear to have neglected consumers as even an indirect target audience for their work. By and... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman