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  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Blog Post

Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact

managing the recruiting process, and larger institutions may lack the structures needed to accommodate the more entrepreneurial candidate. In either case, large company or small, interns and employers must work together to design an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

Juno Online Services in an effort to attract more clients, and it is banking on retaining customers by offering benefits such as discounts when using a Wingspanbank credit card at certain e-commerce sites. At first glance Wingspanbank... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • December 1998 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

STT Aerospace

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jeremy Dann
Experienced entrepreneur Charles Damon conducted a "roll-up" from 1987-1994 within the commercial airliner interior products industry. Damon's company, STT Aerospace, took advantage of an industry-wide recession in the early 1990s by buying when asset prices were low.... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Business Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Acquisition; Product Development; Aerospace Industry
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  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research findings from over 120 papers in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

drugs for chronic conditions—from pharmacies to a combination of direct mail and telephone. The idea was that if you have a chronic condition, you're in a replenishment mode. You have to fill the prescription regularly over a number of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

scientific and technological activities. And the benefit of opening up your problems to outsiders is that in fact you can get novel solutions—quicker solutions than what the firm or R&D lab might develop. It also opens up new domains... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
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  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

growth that eventually drive economic growth and those benefiting from the investment? If so, what does that portend for the real versus the ideal future described by our respondents? What do you think? Original Article How often have you... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Patrick Moreton

discrimination and product bundling. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at the School from 1991 to 1993, writing more than a dozen cases on finance, business ethics, and business-government regulation. He... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Renter’s Market

overseen by line managers. Lee, who is involved in senior-level hires and handles compensation and benefits issues, directly manages only a few individuals. Nonetheless, he says, “I spend about 20 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate
  • 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
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 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
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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Behavioral Finance — Benefiting... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • August 2009
  • Case

Bank of America Sports Sponsorship

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John L. Teopaco
A major sports sponsor must decide on new, renewal, or withdrawal from significant relations with teams/leagues/events, using a distinctive approach to assessment. View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Financing and Loans; Marketing Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 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