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- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
investments, enabling them to forecast higher returns and discount reported liabilities at a higher rate, making the funds appear less under-funded than they were. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
well as a hard-hitting recession, hesitated to provide increased funding to higher education. The debate over how best to finance Australian higher education finally came to a head in the late 1980s, following publication of the Report of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
FDA to work 1 million acres of forest, a concession worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Every word of the company’s forty-page proposal was plagiarized from a U.S. Forest Service report on woodlands 7,000 miles away. And even though I... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
States, I was offered the job of general manager of the Italian marketing operation based in Rome, with responsibility to integrate it with a newly acquired manufacturing company outside Florence. I insisted that I would need to have both... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
critical opinions about the company’s management and wary of a corporate takeover, 26-year-old Warwick launched a successful takeover bid that was worth about $1.5 billion in US dollars. Just three years after Warwick’s takeover, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
from Dice-K in the 2007 season? And finally, how does the signing fit into the greater strategic context of competing with the much-better funded Yankees? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208043 Esquel Group: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
Cisco relies on three layers of customer data to inform its efforts to improve customer satisfaction: The overall satisfaction survey that customers fill out annually; interviews with targeted customer segments, follow-on surveys, and sessions with View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
social responsibility in all corporate affairs. That now lives under the rubric ESG-- Environment, Society, and Governance." Gina Hall MBA 1986 | Partnering for a Low Carbon Future “I’m slowing climate change by harnessing the power of... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose of radiation. Publications... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its trunk is a hose. All View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change - Course Catalog
sectors, including social enterprises, government, and the private sector. Whether you aspire to launch or lead a social enterprise, innovate within policymaking and philanthropy, catalyze systemic change, or drive corporate social... View Details
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
lent prestige to the industry as well. 31 HBS Dean Wallace Donham, appointed in 1919, explained the awards were started and maintained “solely with the idea of bringing into public discussion some of the ethical dilemmas which are involved in advertising, and raising... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
Startups must satisfy the same regulatory and security requirements as their corporate customers, and building the kind of credibility that a top-five bank or insurance company wants in a vendor takes time. As a result, says Karvounis,... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010
delineates how leading firms manage these multiple objectives throughout the entire process of forecasting, sourcing, and onboarding top talent. It also expands on potential misalignments that can arise and tradeoffs firms face in building and executing an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We need to do more team-based medicine and to better integrate specialty care with primary care. We need to be doing a better job measuring health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle issues of diversity. We offer an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
research, drawing parallels with their own work or experience. A case in point was HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's presentation, the first on the agenda. He reported on the initial results of a multination study of factors driving... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details