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06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

most likely to leave, and target the ones at the top of the list with new offers, sales, or promotions. The problem with that, however, is that not all customers are created equal. As Gupta and Lemmens showed in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

well have been stifled or ignored by a jaded trade press corps, used to handouts from established giant firms," Land biographer Victor McElheny argues. "Instead, instant photography was unveiled at a scientific conference as a technical... View Details

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

European market overseas, and (3) concentrate on designing and producing new products for new and existing markets. There were several minority opinions, however. ASGMark commented, “The very idea of moving manufacturing of an American... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

08 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 8

Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2017
News

A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

leverage learning across the University and encourage Harvard students to think more broadly about their role as leaders in society.” Tunnell, who has worked at Hellman & Friedman for most of his career, is a member of the firm’s View Details

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Harvard Business School

for the United States Supreme Court. After HBS, he worked as an investment banker with White Weld & Co., and served as assistant treasurer for... View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the redesign of the Alumni Bulletin and an early stage redesign of the alumni website; and welcomes the School's new Chief Digital Officer, Katia Walsh. Donors continue to demonstrate their belief in the School's mission and priorities by... View Details

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of nonpecuniary (free) OSS and finds a positive and significant value-added... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

providing extracurricular activities, speaker events, and social programming with a business perspective while HLS tends to focus more on learning about experiences in the government, legal industry, and public service. Do I have to take the GMAT or GRE if I’m... View Details

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

http://hbr.org/search/713073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-073 First Green Bank: Bringing Bloom to Desert Landscapes First Green Bank is a bank start-up in the midst of the financial crisis that aims to promote sustainability while making money View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

had to assess whether it was time to sound the alarm, and whether drastic and immediate measures were needed to right the innovation economy ship. Bibi mulled over which policies or interventions would best curb the erosion of Israel’s competitive position View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

Profile

Ahmed Alimi

What's a natural childhood ambition? To be an astronaut? A firefighter? For Ahmed Alimi, the attraction was to number crunching. "My parents tell me that as a child, I said I wanted to be View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

300 Academic Publications $ 140 m. Investment in Research Student Research Organizational Emplacement as a Response to Digital Threat: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores By: Ryan Raffaelli and... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

HBR Prize for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review for “Reskilling in the Age of AI” (September–October 2023) with Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun. Tiona W. Zuzul : Included as... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

economics is about how people understand information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new... View Details

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the end of the week. Alec Hastings, head of Global Institutional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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