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- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program.... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
discussing women's leadership. "Initially, we thought our market was individuals," she said. Eventually, with the help of business sponsors, they developed a new business model targeted at educational institutions and large... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
education experts concerning her organization's mission and effectiveness. Provides information on the leadership development of the protagonist, tracing her youth and education and the process of launching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
bear in a consideration of America's burgeoning trade deficit. Lodge taught a wide range of courses in the MBA and Executive Education Programs at the School. Working with Scott and former HBS professor John W. Rosenblum, he helped focus... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
In some respects, developing strategy is the easy part. Executing that strategy in alignment with strategic priorities is where real mastery of management takes place. We asked Harvard Business School senior lecturer Frank V. Cespedes, who is faculty chair of a new HBS... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
tasks, conditions, and standards, we take thousands of young recruits every month and train them to operate some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world under some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. We also have a long history of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
funds; by the end of August 2008, the collective amount represented more than 20% of Chile's GDP. Several critics wanted the funds to be used to improve the poor public education system, income gap, and other impending social issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, Andre Martinez-Fritscher, and Martina Viarengo Abstract In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
and respect for practice by faculty, increase the quality and impact of faculty research. With roles and boundaries clear, such ongoing relationships with firms, particularly those rooted in executive education venues, increase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
educated and valuable talent in a competitive labor market. The loss of women managers—and potential future leaders—has been particularly vexing for executives. Many of them cling to the belief that women’s struggle to balance their home... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
wedding march with the tagline: “You wouldn’t hire an organist without hearing them first, so why would you invest without checking BrokerCheck?” Since the working paper appeared in 2016, some firms proactively took it upon themselves to View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
educational investment, or new technology. Fund solicitations providing only information without careful framing may be giving consumers an excuse to stay away because of what the product doesn’t have. “People exaggerate a charity’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jan 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts
One of the highlights of my year is in November, when teams of enterprising families meet for the Executive Education program I founded and still lead at Harvard Business School, Families in Business. One of the thornier problems we... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
educating people about augmented reality. It’s a very clever introduction to the technology and beautifully illustrates the merging of the cyber and the physical. We’ve seen other things work similarly before—Google Glass, and heads-up... View Details
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international color cosmetics to India. After growing rapidly and pioneering the Beauty Advisor (BA) model in India, the... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Restructuring; Training; Supply Chain Management; Distribution; E-commerce; Business Model; Business Plan; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketing Strategy; Alignment; Brands and Branding; Negotiation; Joint Ventures; Strategic Planning; Salesforce Management; Competition; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; India
Sandino, Tatiana, and Samuel Grad. "Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 124-107, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
the lessons of the past are being used to educate the business leaders of the future. Why Employers Favor Men Ruth comments: The race factor is important to be considered. In Latin America I have seen quite often that white men prefer to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
highly-skilled workers” Just as problematic are Trump’s numbers with educated voters. Even solely among whites, 60 percent of white voters with a college degree disapprove of Trump’s performance as president, and 54 percent of white... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
degrees in education generally perform no better in their roles than those who do not. “So it’s likely recruiting managers are simply placing too much weight on things that look good on paper, but don’t turn out to matter much in... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
equilibrium of poverty.” (As a side note, one problem with Galbraith’s argument is that “labor exports” often involve people with the best education and skills, producing a brain drain. The result could well be greater inequality among... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
performance arts empire with a global brand. The story has a personal as well as professional dimension to it, including the launch of the Blue School (with their spouses), to provide children with the kind of education they wish they'd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne