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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not very profitable. Based on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
After graduating Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1974 and earning his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1976, Bujalski had a successful business career as CEO of several health care services companies. His journey into... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
outfox the competition, impress their customers with unexpected value, and achieve new levels of professional success. Repeatability: Build Enduring Business for a World of Constant Change by Chris Zook and James Allen (MBA 1989) (Harvard... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Frei is the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at HBS and is the author of Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Joseph Fuller: Focus on doing what is possible The most important impact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
small. One subset of "non-traditional" credit unions have been able to expand as a result of looser field of membership requirements and expanded product and service offerings through the use of corporate credit unions and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
because their market power allows them to charge higher service fees than domestic banks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-025.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Armstrong Investigation Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest U.S. military medal given to a noncombatant, as well as being decorated a Commander of the British Empire and awarded the French Legion of Honor. Doriot’s wartime experience proved his... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
influence a team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Manage the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible. The case uses a difficult design decision in a tsunami rehabilitation project to illustrate the challenges faced by professional View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
the first launch of HBX, and is targeted at a group that HBS has historically not served: undergraduate students, non-business graduate students, and professionals in the pre-MBA stage of their working careers who would benefit from a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
nonprofit board service is of great interest to alumni. So we were very thoughtful to find the best people for the topics of conversation,” says Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), Associate Director for the SEI. Angella worked closely with the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Program Policies - HBS Online
understand or do not wish to be bound by the Program Policies, do not enroll in any Programs. As a reminder, HBS Online Services are at all times subject to the HBS Online Terms of Use . Table of Contents Certificate of Completion... View Details