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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
courses. Cases capture real-life scenarios and explore a range of issues, including how leaders implement value-based principles. The cases are available for all at no cost online through Harvard Business Publishing, GHDonline, and The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
for decision-making and leadership, in these overlapping public-private realms.” Speaking at luncheon, on the opening day of the conference, Haass, a former State Department official, posited three possible scenarios for the world’s... View Details
- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
investigate different scenarios and learn from each other. Being able to drop my strong judgments and be open to other opinions has been very transformational." Leadership, Rakhi believes, is not necessarily an individual endeavor.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research and thought leadership on major challenges to capitalism; View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
may love its convenience, but does it cost them in different ways? ©iStock | Onfokus Would we non-regulators still love Uber if it turned out Uber drivers were actually costing us money—even if we didn’t use the service? That’s one of the View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
imagine a scenario in which a firm asks its customers to tell their friends about a particular product in exchange for giving these people monetary benefits. Although such a scheme will probably benefit the company, it will also probably... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
that states with the largest pension deficits and those with heavy unionization were most likely to want to keep the status quo—even when the public and financial experts pushed for the opposite. It makes sense: “The most likely scenario... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
our economy and our global competitiveness? The IS2K presentation "The Impact of Future Telecommunications Infrastructures" offered the two scenarios above, the result of an IEEE-USA/Cornell University project to point the way toward... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
shareholders — compared with 8-plus percent for its customers. It is worth adding that this shareholder surplus would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart’s million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though that sounds. This View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
of their equity plans by outlining in detail the possible scenarios and potential outcomes of their particular grants. The message here is A) you add value to this company and should benefit from it well into the future and B) we want to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
of voters in slums such as Dharavi. And with the daunting prospect of determining which residents would receive 300 square feet of free housing (limited to families in residence before January 2000), it's easy to imagine a nightmarish View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
about our differences—those that we usually don’t talk about and that we're a little afraid of talking about.” With the framework and context established, Creary then dives into class engagement and de-escalation strategies, and introduces View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to capitalize on information, allowing them to minimize their exposure to demand uncertainty." Given this new View Details
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Monne Williams
talking about all these topics. I really liked that while everyone came prepared, the professor would deliberately ask for something completely different. In real time, students had to think through scenarios where there were no obvious... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
outcomes are now visible. The trajectory Afghanistan is now on pays too little attention to new enterprise and job creation and is predictably dismal. The alternative scenario I've described has a brighter outcome. It amplifies the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
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Community Values & Honor Code | HBS Online
you may be removed from a Harvard Business School Online course or program and be ineligible to earn a certificate. Examples of Honor Code Violations The following list highlights current situations and scenarios that are not permissible... View Details
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
with high variance. (See the exhibit "A Better Way to Manage Inventory.") The first test shows a scenario in which a manufacturer is most concerned about keeping its big retail customers happy by maintaining very high order... View Details