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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
cost rather than simply hand it out for free at food shelters. For many people accepting handouts is embarrassing, Rauch says. “They want to provide for their family in a dignified manner. Retail, because the customer holds the power of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
identification and party mapping, to "social mapping" and building guanxi, to creative deal design and tactics, in order to most effectively work out issues of equity, management control, territory, and exclusivity. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
they should open target data and compete on solutions—compounds and molecules addressing the targets. I agree. If we're going to get the breakthrough products we want at a development cost we can afford, we have to figure out the best... View Details
- Profile
Jennifer Kelly
made a difference by working through grassroots organizations; I saw ways businesses could contribute that were not dependent on donations." As an example, Jennifer refers to the Manila Water Company. "They found a way to lower the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
researchers, or product managers – we could use our time at HBS as an opportunity to both launch a product and build a business from scratch. After discussing a number of pain points we had seen in hospitals over the years, we arrived at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
impacted just as hard but received less assistance.” In response, Camino expects to come to market with a recovery loan that lowers the cost to borrowers and lends to nonessential industries that have been heavily impacted by COVID-19.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, the required Marketing course has been revamped to include new initiatives such as a marketing-strategy computer simulation (called "Pharmasim") and a module on new product development, developed and taught jointly with the Technology and... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
with one of my coworkers, a manager from a different department. He and I had had a wonderful relationship as I was growing up in the business, but now that I had come back and joined the business and had been promoted to manager, I felt... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
vacant. "The country stops. The days that Brazil plays, it will be a national holiday," Sender says. This year, though, Sender won't have much time to celebrate. As CEO of TAM Airlines, Brazil's largest, she'll be managing operations at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
describes the purpose of boards is phrased very broadly. For instance, in Delaware, which sets the standard for other states, directors find little help in the statute that defines their job: "The business and affairs of every corporation shall be View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
specific to Lincoln Center's international business development initiatives. MD Anderson Health Care Cost Management Focus: Health Care Value Team: Stephen Schleicher Description: Our project's purpose was... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in farmland management and investing in regenerative agriculture.” Pat Coady MBA 1966 | Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure "We’re finally... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
improve health in their communities. The business case for investing in community health is compelling, especially for companies that depend on communities for workers and customers. Sick and absent workers cost American firms some $225... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
restructured John’s Island’s management company, Community Condominium Services, Inc., by reducing costs while improving services and its hurricane protection practices. At the John’s Island Club, he was a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
attention of the IRS, given the loss of tax revenues, but why is the SEC interested? First, this dual-reporting system creates significant confusion. In effect, one-third of costs (the tax claim on pretax profits) is not reported clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai