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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
plan within their organization. A: There are many issues inherent in this question. But I would point to three issues that typically are front and center when companies get serious about developing and executing an integrated strategy in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to commercial clients made the difference. As Centennial One grew through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green business profitable is an even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
2003) was looking for more options. Their path: Readers suggested everything from upfront payment models to partnering with employers looking to offer the centers as a benefit, but ultimately, one of the funding doors opened: The success... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
rules tend to be surprisingly nebulous, especially considering the precise technical specifications of the patents at hand. In part because of the potential profits at stake, SEPs have been at the center of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
Administration at HBS and is also formally affiliated with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Psychology Department, Center on the Environment, and Program on Negotiation. Predictable Surprises (HBS Press) was published in 2004. You... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
business down into 21 profit centers and use a strategic, cost-analysis approach to retail.” Although Hustead spent summers as a teenager working at Wall Drug, it wasn’t initially his career of choice. In... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial assessment is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate bond indices, in a formula that... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
serves as chairman of the consultancy TruePoint Partners and of its educational and research institute, the TruePoint Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. In the e-mail interview that follows, Beer talks about the book and what boards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
first, these operations eventually become profitable. The WDC would be a center of research and learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction. Q: In what ways could the World Development Corporation be better than other... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Deal Making in Real Estate - Course Catalog
strategic areas within Gilbane including profit and loss oversight of Gilbane’s Next 150 subsidiary providing site services, equipment and self-perform workforce and GRS Disaster Response, an emergency recovery business. He also leads the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
profits are tight." Alliances can take many different forms. Some, such as the arrangement between the Bidwell Training Center and the Bayer Corporation, come to involve multiple partners in an effort... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
centralized fulfillment center instead of selling from a large number of decentralized pharmacies, and then encourage those people—essentially by cutting the size of their co-pay—to place their orders by phone, renew their prescriptions... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office View Details