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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Sustainable Business Strategy provides participants with the knowledge and tools to become purpose-driven... View Details

18 Nov 2022
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What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

employee—from office staff to managers—to become “at least a millionaire,” the authors say. “For Brown, there is clearly a factor of enduring legacy that comes with his team continuing to own the firm and keeping it as an active part of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

24 Sep 2018
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How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its patients--specifically those who visited the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

programs conclude with a required deadline. Details on individual course or program requirements are communicated to enrolled participants at the start of the course or program. Can I audit an HBS Online course? Because HBS Online expects all students to participate... View Details

02 May 2016
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5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

up and pay dues for 5-10 clubs immediately. Attend the first couple events of a few clubs you’re considering and then commit to ones where you are most excited. Few students report being actively involved in more than 2-3 clubs each year.... View Details

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Considering Retirement - Alumni

what will you do with it? What kinds of activities will you find meaningful? Time spent considering your future now will yield returns in the quality of the time you spend in retirement. In fact, the people who are most satisfied with... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

unit times spent on these resources by specific activities for products, services, and customers. For example, if a customer support department has a cost of $70 per hour, and a particular transaction for a customer takes 24 minutes (0.4... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

compound search Basic tool for analyzing search results Quick help and translation tools are very useful IPC statistics (global patent activity reports) Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu for specific search... View Details

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

how teams facilitate collaboration will reveal opportunities to build stronger teams through active inclusion. Unlike passive inclusion, which is basically just being polite, active inclusion calls for using... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

07 Jun 2004
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What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

behavioral dynamics that may exist in supply chain management. What led you to study this in particular? Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson: Supply chains are incredibly complex with numerous moving parts. To appreciate this complexity, it is useful to first realize that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

scientific reasoning and method appear to be applicable to business, thus helping to legitimate the study of business as an activity within the university. Yet what exactly a "science" of management should study would be puzzled... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Center] Related Reading: The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale RESEARCH PAPER: Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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93% 95% — Did Not Report / Unknown 0% 0% 0% — Publishing 2022 2021 2020 2019 Cases Sold 16,726,000 15,392,000 15,209,000 14,539,000 Harvard ManageMentor Active Users 7,384,000 6,061,000 5,037,000 2,837,000 HBR.org Average Monthly Users... View Details

March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
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Midwest Office Products

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Presents an easy introduction to time-driven activity-based costing (ABC) that allows students to build a simple ABC model of order profitability. Midwest's time-driven ABC approach is based on two categories of parameter estimates. The first is the cost per hour of... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Price; Activity Based Costing and Management; Time Management; Financial Reporting; Profit; Performance Improvement; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Performance Evaluation

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01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

best is yet to come for innovation at Harvard as Allston activates further. We couldn’t be more excited. Harvard Innovation Labs Located along Harvard’s evolving Western Avenue innovation corridor, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

SOSV SOSV is an early-stage, deep-tech venture capital firm that is one of the most active firms in the world in climate tech investment. Brandon's role prior to HBS was a Founding engineer of Wafer, a satellite communications startup.... View Details

18 Feb 2019
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What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

swipe left and it will stop insuring it. You don't have to do all the activities you normally would do with a traditional insurance company. You don't have to talk to an agent, look at the policies, list the things you own, pay for the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

15 Dec 2003
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The New Global Business Manager

competitive by integrating activities and coordinating resources across national borders. At the same time, they also need to be sensitive and responsive to national differences in consumer tastes and government requirements, for example.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

pains to bedeck in holiday spirit. “Samsung has more active US patents than any other firm,” says Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor at HBS. “They have also been sued more than any other firm.” Many of these suits were by so-called patent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

scholarship that ensures the School’s continued educational excellence and its impact on business and society. Watch more videos about faculty members' research activities The Insights we need to Educate Leaders Six faculty members... View Details

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