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Globalization - Faculty & Research

seek holders of such doctorates from elsewhere. Deans championed internationalization of the School, encouraging faculty to spend time abroad, providing funds for overseas research, and establishing “centers” abroad. Many new faculty were... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

also find important insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. I firmly believe that the template for business education can be very broad. As soon as that ship was frozen,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

products, but they became worldwide brands because of the capabilities of Unilever. Their success rested on the choices made on strategy and organization, on the recruitment and development of managers, on the allocation of spending... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From The Bottom Up While most organizations struggle with implementing a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • June 2025
  • Case

TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis

By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and Carlota Moniz
On September 27, 2022, Padmesh Shukla, CIO of the Transport for London (TfL) Pension Fund, was keeping a careful eye on the turmoil in the U.K. sovereign bond (or gilt) market. When the new government announced the largest tax cuts the U.K. had seen in half a century,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Assets; Asset Management; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Equity; Public Equity; Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London; Europe
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  • March 2011
  • Case

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company in 2011

By: Willy Shih and Jia Cheng
When David Wang took over as the CEO of SMIC, he knew that if he was to capitalize on the company's strategic location in the China market, he would have to transform the company mindset and its operating structure from its roots in the manufacturing of DRAMs to the... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry; China
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  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

beginning of the book is this idea that more new information has been created since 2010 than in all of previous human history, which is staggering to think about. And you write that even though we’re awash in all of this information, this really isn’t the View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

particularly tough time. During the 1990s small investors lost out to professional financial firms that manipulated the market; this time they're likely to lose out—if they're not careful—to other sophisticated investors as well. The Next... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

desirable part of an employee’s day, our theory and results point to the benefits of viewing it as a useful time period to engage in goal-directed prospection. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50419... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Time allocation exercise Identify key contextual factors shaping your organization Video upload: Record yourself communicating direction and evaluate the effectiveness of you and your peers’ communication... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2024
  • News

Startup Shepherds

a mobile dental practice called Henry the Dentist. Jenny Fleiss, who launched Rent the Runway with cofounder Jenn Hyman (both MBA 2009) realizes now that they would have allocated their initial resources differently if they had recognized... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14699 Forced Sales and House Prices Authors:John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Parag Pathak Abstract This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of Massachusetts over the last 20 years to show that houses sold after... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

while conserving scarce time and attention. Highlights The Benefits of Diagnostic Control Systems Putting the Three Wheels Back Together - Three Wheels of Profit Planning Schematic A Multidimensional Approach to Measurement Harnessing... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

Clinic’s warfarin anticoagulation clinic. The study measured the personnel and supplies costs to monitor and manage anticoagulation therapy for 5,526 patients. Results: The cost of warfarin management for patients who display unstable International Normalized Ratio... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

and those who work or worked in coal mines. There are also certain tax credits aimed at electricity production shifts benefitting low-income communities, but the amount of funding thus far is uncertain. The IRA also allocated $1 billion... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

the possibility that time variation in investors’ beliefs and tastes play a role in determining the quantity and allocation of credit. Operating under the hypothesis that the price of credit... View Details
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

and administrative costs into the cost of serving individual customers. Either they treat all such costs as fixed-period costs and don't drive them to the customer level, or they use high-level, inaccurate methods, such as allocating a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

Lagace: How can marketers help the world's poor? Rangan: They can bring a marketing process to think through how the allocation of resources happens. We need the voice of all stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders don't seem to have a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace