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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

educational goals. Access Your Free Flowchart You May Also Be Interested In Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business Essentials Finance & Accounting Business in Society 90% are more... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription

The Bulletin caught up with HBS professor Regina E. Herzlinger this summer as she was en route to Nashville to accept the 2004 Healthcare Financial Management Association Board of Directors’ Award. The prestigious honor recognizes thought... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play

When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting
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Nikki Skovran

In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship
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Curriculum | MBA

Technology and Operations Management Leadership & Organizational Behavior Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty Spring Term Business, Government, and the International Economy Finance II Strategy Leadership and Corporate... View Details
  • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
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UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

faculty members. Finding “Hidden Workers” Even before the pandemic upended the workforce, American companies complained about the “skills gap” that left essential jobs unfilled while millions of Americans remained unemployed. HBS’s Project on View Details
  • March 1995 (Revised November 1995)
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Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
FPL's dividend policy and the reaction of the financial markets are examined. View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Stocks; Financial Markets
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  • 17 Mar 2017
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Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) took a rather winding path to HBS. She first travelled south to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering at Duke University and then to the West Coast for a master’s in View Details
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

plans for resolution have been Toyota's substitute for crisis response. As accounts pour in about declining quality, the company parades out relatively unknown mid-level managers to quell the firestorm. It... View Details
Keywords: by William George; Auto
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Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Emergency Medicine

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Brian J. Yun, Anand M. Prabhakar, Jonathan Warsh, John Brennan, Kyle E. Dempsey and Ali S. Raja
Value in emergency medicine is determined by both patient-important outcomes and the costs associated with achieving them. However, measuring true costs is challenging. Without an understanding of costs, emergency department (ED) leaders will be unable to determine... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Emergency Room; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management
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Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online

HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in: Leadership & Management Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business in Society Finance & Accounting Marketing What You Earn Certificate of... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

case:http://hbr.org/search/612080-PDF-ENG Siemens AG: Key Account Management Thomas Steenburgh, Michael Ahearne, and Elena CorsiHarvard Business School Case 512-110 The key View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

By: Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly and Erick Gong
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Growth and Development; Adoption; Business Strategy; Cost; Cost Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Culture; Technology Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

report helped companies devise strategies to manage inventories, increase profits, and cut waste. Though much has changed over the ensuing century, the drive remains the same. “We aspire to be both rigorous and relevant,” says Jan Rivkin,... View Details
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CORe Final Exam Preparation | HBS Online

module deadline. Participants do not need to make appointments to take the final exam. The exam is divided into three parts — Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting — and you... View Details
  • June 2015 (Revised September 2017)
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Generating Higher Value at IBM

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield
This case analyzes IBM's financial performance and its capital allocation decisions over a 10-year period from 2004-2013, during which IBM returned more than $140B to shareholders through a combination of dividends and share repurchases. During this time, CEO Sam... View Details
Keywords: Dividends; Share Repurchases; Earnings Guidance; Financial Statement Analysis; Financial Ratios; Payout Policy; Earnings Per Share (EPS); Earnings Management; Change Management; Leadership; Transformation; Financial Strategy
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  • 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

goods are becoming more, not less, concentrated. What about someone like Lady Gaga, whose quick rise to fame came with no previously established brand? What did her management team do right? It's hard to imagine that only 18 months before... View Details
Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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Community | Research Associates

Organizational Behavior Columbia Business School Management; Marketing Cornell University Statistics Fuqua School of Business (Duke University) Finance Harvard Business School Accounting & Management; Organizational Behavior; Strategy;... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

It also contains materials on the branch offices and the management and administration of the company from the New York office. Collection Guide Harris C. Fahnestock Papers, 1855–1914 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard... View Details