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Cathy Zhou
start-up. How has HBS helped you make an impact? I remember one of my HBS professors comparing the case method to the game tape that sports teams watch in preparation for a big game. It's not because you expect the game to play out... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
accounting are very "sticky," suggesting there will need to be a strong set of actions and incentives to get us to truly comparable global accounting. The insights from the body of literature I just mentioned are important, but... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
to $3 billion revenue range, and $500,000 to $1 million in personal holdings for directors of large companies with more than $3 billion in revenues. The directors of professionally sponsored buyouts typically have comparable personal... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
of a nascent development project that some compare to Shanghai’s thriving Pudong district. Research symposium Students had the opportunity to present their BRI research to alumni and other guests, including the World Bank’s lead economist... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
School's and alumni visibility in the community while providing a substantial educational experience to its members. The amount of preparation that goes into these conferences is staggering - even by HBS measures - and appropriately might be View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes
studies do not exclude the possibility that cigarette advertisements in these magazines target adults, rather than youths. Second, these studies do not specifically examine advertising for the few brands that youths actually smoke. The authors View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
rate typically tracks with changes in their area’s median income. So if the median income increases 10 percent during their tenure as owners, they could sell their home for 10 percent more than they paid for it. This way, the home remains View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
camp offered nothing except the status quo. Anyone watching the national UK television debate on Tuesday could compare the hope and passion of the Leave campaign, led by former London mayor Boris Johnson, with the plodding, half-hearted... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Mariano Bomaggio
during my undergraduate career, I became more interested in the business side of things. It seemed more complex; there were more dimensions you cannot control compared to a standard engineering problem." After graduation, Mariano... View Details
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
Council. For example, dual-flush toilets and low-flow shower heads and sink aerators reduce water use by 30 percent when compared to a standard building. Sensors adjust indoor lighting by taking available natural light into account (this... View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
paragon of fiscal management” compared to how the United States and its political leadership is doing. Among a number of Tweeters with multiple tweets on the subject, Professor of Management Practice Bill George remarks that “pols put... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
industry experts to rate the comparative quality of each product relative to other products that targeted similar customer needs at the time the act was launched. Product quality was defined as a combination of reliability, technical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
the rest of our lives." One way to think about it: forget the granite countertop or the pool—how much time are you going to spend in the house compared to the time you spend driving to and from work? Pay Now, Consume Later "The worst... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
The company aims to transform health food with a lesser known super-seed (Sacha Inchi), which has a superior nutritional profile compared to most conventional nuts and seeds. The mission was to do this not just through its products, but... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
States, and Japan. "Each of these nations has had a relatively long experience with capitalism, each has been a powerful performer, and each took a different path to capitalist success," notes McCraw. He and his seven coauthors use this View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is conducted. View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
endurance. Physiologists say that rowing a 2,000-meter race is equivalent to playing two basketball games back-to-back. The difficulty of keeping oar strokes synchronized has been compared to “eight people trying to do the perfect golf... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
leading schools offering specialized programs in health care management and compared the curriculum to the recommendations from the field interviews by comparing the frequency of words in syllabi with the... View Details
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
of New York Press, 2002), 127. 35 W. Everett McLaine, district director of public relations, Pittsburgh District, for the Management Candidate-Company Indoctrination Program at Homestead District Works, Tuesday, February 10, 1953, in F. Rhodes Henderer, A View Details