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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
and insightful, it needs to be rolled out through student organizations (clubs, the Greek system, etc.) and funded by nonprofits or grants. Another choice would be a freemium model, but that will be difficult to do without alienating the users, given the View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
distinguished career of more than thirty years. That first position gave her a variety of experiences, from line operations to staff management, and soon she was one of the first college-educated women to enter the company's fast track to... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
Since the launch of The Harvard Business School Campaign on April 25, 2014, more than 5,000 alumni and guests have come together to celebrate the School and its mission at regional events around the world and the Campaign’s website has had more than 81,000 visits to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- Profile
Caitlin Reimers
From its home base in London, the Reimers family traveled the world, instilling curiosity, an interest in economics, and "a strong service orientation," in Cait and her two sisters. Back in the United States, Cait attended... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capital costs, have very low operating (marginal) costs, and have few investment opportunities. As a result, projects generate large amounts of "free cash flow" (cash flow in excess of what is needed to finance all positive NPV... View Details
- September 2006
- Teaching Note
OfficeTiger (TN)
Teaching Note to (804-109). View Details
- September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Ethics; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Service Delivery; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Ingrid Marie Nembhard, and Robert Galvin. "Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life." Harvard Business School Case 604-030, September 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
- June 2017
- Teaching Note
The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details
Keywords: Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Advertising Industry; Mining Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Christensen. It's time for companies to look at products the way customers do: as a way to get a job done. Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp? The body posture inherent in operating everyday gadgets affects not only your back, but... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- August 2000 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Borders Group, Inc.
By: Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman
Describes Borders Group, a well-known retail chain, in late 1999 and its traditional strengths and rapid growth in the 1990s. By 1990, however, the company had fallen behind Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble in leveraging the Internet for book retailing, although it... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Distribution Channels; Service Operations; Business Growth and Maturation; Economic Growth; Industry Growth; Growth and Development; Internet; Business Model; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry; Publishing Industry
Ton, Zeynep, and Ananth Raman. "Borders Group, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 601-037, August 2000. (Revised February 2003.)
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on personal service interactions with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
provided an opportunity to consolidate student services previously scattered across campus. MBA administrative offices moved into the top floor, and the lower level included a casual-dining grill, the Harvard Coop, IT support services, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
company, Ventro, which provides services for online exchanges. While the gold rush days of the late 1990s may be over, there is still a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among HBS students, faculty, and alumni. “The... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
tightly to volatile gas prices and the faltering auto industry. From a resident’s point of view, life in a city with inconsistent municipal services and simmering racial tensions could be even more tenuous. While many suburbs prospered,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and nonprofit executives from fifteen countries who gathered for the event examined the operational and... View Details