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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
treatment. “In theory they never have to ask another donor for a dollar. And I said, ‘I know what that looks like. Investing in promising early stage projects and having a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout the world are faced with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
has received substantial attention in the strategy literature, where a number of qualitative approaches to describe, represent, and evaluate business models have been proposed. We contend that while helpful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
with these historical accounts. This paper, by examining the resource allocation process closely, identifies a specific set of circumstances in which intervention by top management is critical to a firm's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
be analyzed. Even when numbers are available, they are never clear. An intuitive process can still be rigorous if managers use the right tools. For example, discovery-driven planning lets you create a plan to test assumptions; aggregate View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
the capital allocation problem is the central way to evaluate management. Gerdeman: You say that valuation is both an art and a science, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
always help a business be more competitive." Shadreck Saili said that while long-range strategic planning may still be relevant to some degree, ''the frequency of monitoring and evaluating of strategic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the key financial levers that drive financial performance Discover how and why finance is concerned with cash flow versus profits and why that matters for your... View Details
- Web
Leadership - Faculty & Research
efforts. Keywords: Framing ; Stakeholder Management ; Capabilities ; Transformation ; Leading Change ; Crisis Management ; Resource Allocation ; Government and Politics ;... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
and provide the impetus for evaluating research on disruptive innovation in management and strategy. We trace disruptive innovation theory’s intellectual history, noting both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
suggestions about improvement opportunities. Organizations face a trade-off with such suggestion-driven improvement programs. On one hand, the improvement literature recommends that managers focus organizational resources on surfacing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
to make the MBA Program more affordable to students from different socio-economic backgrounds. Last year, that involved implementing a new approach to evaluating and awarding need-based scholarships. In... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
Online Marketing at Big Skinny
By: Benjamin Edelman and Scott Duke Kominers
Describes a wallet maker's application of seven Internet marketing technologies: display ads, algorithmic search, sponsored search, social media, interactive content, online distributors, and A/B testing. Provides concise introductions to the key features of each... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Online Marketing at Big Skinny." Harvard Business School Case 911-033, February 2011. (Revised February 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
other profession. "What was striking to me was the ability the students had to challenge their own assumptions, and discuss truisms in a respectful but confrontational manner," says Schulman. That soul-searching carried on to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
for an individual patient. Ideally, this will help ministries of health in impoverished countries decide how to allocate their limited resources to optimize the quantity, quality, View Details
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
the world. The pandemic necessitated a complete pause in 2020 and 2021. In 2022, FGI resumed in 15 locations in the United States, and in 2023, more than 1,000 students traveled to 15 global locations to... View Details
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
Debt Securities ; Credit Derivatives and Swaps ; Bonds ; Stocks ; Financial Strategy ; Interest Rates ; Governance ; Governing and Advisory Boards ; Crisis Management ; View Details
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
spending some of it supporting open curriculum projects that democratize higher learning." Several embraced solutions aimed at what they see as the real heart of the problem. As Bruce Hiller put it, "Redistributing wealth from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
attractive alternatives to Microsoft technologies as they did when the Internet first emerged—it's not long before the tools division starts to hear about it.—Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack We also View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne