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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
and approach to business that stresses employee satisfaction, creativity, irreverence, and fun. In implementing that philosophy, Branson has been named England's best business leader for the last two years by his business peers. Branson... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
biotechnology deals. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309112 Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative Harvard Business School Case 509-042 Describes the conception, development, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting and implementing relationship-management strategies,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
in organizational behavior (OB), this is a fundamental departure from the extant operations management (OM) literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
even well-intentioned practitioners just may not have the skill set to properly implement the standards. In the study of international adoption of standards I mentioned previously, one of the things we find is that oversight by a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
States, the approaches are reasonable. The task is to translate a theoretically reasonable approach into a workable policy. Implementing any of these approaches will require negotiations between the federal and the local governments, to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
group KBB, which bought the chain in 1990, however, Eyler immediately began implementing what he calls a "back to the future" strategy. "It was a matter of looking at what had made FAO Schwarz great in the past -- its capacity to create... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
cofounded and implemented — at a December event at HBS at which she introduced the ALI’s first cohort of fourteen fellows. Ranging from a former U.S. astronaut and a former Venezuelan health minister to a former IBM international... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
Campaign for Human Capital. He then oversaw the implementation of a variety of efforts, including a marketing blitz touting the benefits of teaching in Philadelphia; a recruitment event, “Rolling Out the Red Carpet”; leadership training... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
prize-based saving in the credit union industry through a program known as Save to Win. “I grew up in Missouri, the ‘Show Me State,’ so all of these projects tapped into my desire to get out and implement something tangible,” he explains.... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
price of competing products, pose new challenges on translating the demand forecasts into a pricing policy. We develop an algorithm to efficiently solve the subsequent multi-product price optimization that incorporates reference price effects, and we create and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
and the battery itself is long-lasting. Breakthroughs And Implementation The XO laptop also illustrates how goal-setting can raise the bar in an industry. "A number of technology breakthroughs were part and parcel of the development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
survey cited specific actions their companies had implemented to remain competitive. The majority had taken steps such as improving worker training, investing in technology, growing exports, and expanding to new markets. Among the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
implementing value-based reimbursement models. Infrastructure requirements, including information technology (indicated by 42% of respondents), and changing regulation/policy (34%) are the top two. There is strong consensus on the broad... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
it - and they have to. But they also save millions of dollars by equipping their employees to perform well in English or another relevant language. That said, they would be the first to say that implementation continues to be a problem... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18
developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first from the perspective of the donor country, and then the political economy of aid receipt and implementation from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
describe risk, encouraging a unified organizational view. “The risk management function was getting incorporated into more and more firm-wide debates that were really important for management.” The chief risk director also implemented new... View Details