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Considering Retirement - Alumni
place for life after work, everything else about retirement – what we intend to do with our time – remains vague or utterly unexplored. Important considerations include: Identity Who will you be in retirement? What aspirations, commitments, relationships and... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
they can’t make an overall risk assessment. Gazette: This week, a panel of banking regulators and treasury officials from the G20 countries said it will put forward “robust” new regulations in October in response to the “intrinsic volatility and View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
balancer shafts, and other niche prismatic parts. We have also acquired a majority stake in EMOSS in the Netherlands—a complete end-to-end solution provider of electric drivelines for commercial vehicles. This marks our entry into the EV... View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
his five kids. They spent weeks choosing lumber and shingles, and he taught them how to hammer and saw, even though it would have been faster just to build the whole thing himself. The children were thrilled to show their friends the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
important role in reducing both the real and financing frictions faced by small businesses. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52278 Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of Market Structure and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
should they balance operational activities and advocacy efforts? How can they better measure performance against their missions and improve accountability to stakeholders?" The authors discuss their book in the following Q&A.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
across the buyer-seller firms, they begin to take actions that begin to achieve balances in the contract terms on a routine basis," he said. Even though firms may start out on an uneven playing field, as they wrote in their paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
organization's strategy and structural needs. In some situations, functional experts can raise their profile by cultivating just two of the competencies. But those who are strong in all four are likely to be the most influential.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Structure Show Hide Details Concepts An Introduction to Cost Fixed versus Variable Costs Relative Cost Analysis Supply Curves Scale Economies Featured Exercises Predict market structure by examining various... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enterprise means striking a balance between standardizing operations and pursuing innovations. Bain & Company’s Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez elaborate on the role of the agile leadership team: ”To find the optimal balance,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
doctoral student Julia Adler-Milstein, Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara Singer, and HBS professor Michael W. Toffel examine this question in a hospital setting. Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard This article... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
With a pandemic temporarily closing many businesses and stifling consumer demand, whole industries, especially those that recently leveraged their balance sheets to take advantage of near-zero interest rates, are seeing their profits... View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
executives about how to balance those requirements? A: You are absolutely right—there is a constant tradeoff between managing for the short and long run. I can't speak for Sir Alex, of course, but I think he would say that as a manager,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
someone with whom they can have conversations about their skills as a manager. My worry is that the higher people go in management, the harder it is to get the truth. As people rise we are less willing to be as honest with them as we could be. It’s a commentary on us... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Amazon.com, 2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402.
On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
wounds in the balance sheet—spurring the call to Kahn—and her ultimate recommendations were a challenge to leadership. But she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
structure, formal management processes, information technology, the informal social network, and people. Organizational structure is a natural beginning but most people expect too much from it. There is no "perfect" structure.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
made. For example, in my business (motion pictures), film and television product can deliver important climate messages without “hitting people over the head with them.” There is a balance to be struck and we must find it. Scott Jacobs... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
program lengths is to give learners different options to balance the program’s rigors with their particular lifestyle and responsibilities. The median time required to complete the program is approximately 150 hours, though this learning... View Details