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15 Jan 2025
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners

electricity crises (among others) in its history. On top of that, given the pressing need to address the climate crisis, I sought a summer role with a firm focused on sustainable infrastructure investment. This internship allowed me to build my expertise in the field... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Margo Cramer

generous with their time, helping me understand their industries, and evaluate internship opportunities." In the short term, Margo anticipates a return to apparel, this time in outdoor and athletic retail. Over the long run, she... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality

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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

population of the world that is near indigence and for whom market solutions are less relevant. Course Evaluation and Grading 50% of the grade will be based on class participation, 10% on an original posting and two responses on the... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

raise alumni awareness of continuing education options and proposed recommendations to make those options more accessible and relevant. Online Connections — served as a sounding board and test user group for the new, enhanced alumni directory. Volunteers — developed a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

Challenges, Part II Incumbent Responses Featured Exercises Evaluate innovations and challenges faced by DTC and legacy brands across the value chain Assess legacy companies’ responses to DTC brands 6 hrs Module 2 Crafting a Digital... View Details

September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
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Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling

By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall

With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,... View Details

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future employers and investors about the experience Want to join a startup and are looking for tools to evaluate companies and founding teams they are considering working with Intend to invest in startups or serve as startup advisors and... View Details

20 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

was higher, consumers rated the bag higher on all of those questions; when the displayed price was higher than the true price, however, it had no influence. That surprised Ngwe. “I expected even if they were given verifiably fake prices, it would still change people’s... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

that the role of steward is critical to the success of a healthy economic system." Nick C suggested that a response to the question has to take into account many things: "An appointment of such a role may well depend on more empirical View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

option is for companies to "de-risk" their pension plan by putting assets into more predictable investments that generate enough income while still reducing the risk due to market or interest rate volatility. To do that, some companies are turning to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source of praise in the evaluation of governance by rating agencies that provide... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007

efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protections by U.S. state courts over the last three decades to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007

and Related Research, no. 458 (May 2007): 202-219 Abstract Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has become an influential factor in healthcare delivery in the United States. We evaluated the influence of DTCA on surgeon and patient... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2007
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Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

countless examples of bubbles throughout history in which inexperienced investors were lured in. Somewhat surprisingly, young managers were not that good at evaluating technology stocks. Although they experienced high returns when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

processes, and technology. Here are six essential questions for leaders to ask as they evaluate the operational resilience of this triad: Are we sufficiently prepared for problems when they arise?: People: Long before any disaster, it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

25 Sep 2015
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4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

evaluation of the ideas introduced to see if any of the business models could be applied to a different vertical. That allowed us to be exhaustive in our options and would also ensure that the best industry for the idea could be... View Details

06 Mar 2025
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IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

MRF does, HUL is also enabling more of the value extracted from waste to accrue to workers versus middlemen. Of course, ultimately, companies will have to evaluate efficiencies gained by automation against the benefits of job creation. View Details

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

not secure visas on time. For detailed information about what the course program fee includes and excludes, as well as information about student accommodations, please visit the GEO website or email geo@hbs.edu . GEO continuously View Details

01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

identifying and retaining best practices from each organization, he also introduced new ones, including a worldwide evaluation and compensation system. Today, all Novartis employees have at least 10 percent of their pay based on... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

beyond disciplinary information silos and to be more self-aware as leaders. But how? Dean Jay Light established faculty committees to evaluate a variety of proposals, including submissions from fifty HBS colleagues. Work on curriculum... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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