Value Added - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

lose $1.4 billion in value under Quaker's stewardship in just four years? How did Triarc restore most of that value in less than three years? What did Triarc do with such apparently effortless grace that... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

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Mollie Breen

an MBA program because I was kicked off a reality TV show!" but her entrepreneurial experiment did inspire her to explore. On the HBS MBA website, an ad for Harvard's joint MS/MBA program (Harvard John A. Paulson School of... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

team. Highlights Mia Leadership Imprint Personal Values Questionnaire Self-Assessment A Leader at Work: Motivating Your Team with Yvonne Chen Show Hide Details Concepts Developing Your Leadership Imprint Core Functions of Your Leadership... View Details

22 Oct 2007
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Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From The Bottom Up While most organizations struggle with implementing a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

30 May 2005
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Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

you're serious about following through on your threat. Second, it forces the contractor to reconsider how much value her firm is truly adding to the relationship. Third, your sunk costs reduce the cost of... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting

round of interviews was focused on a theme related to a value of the company or capability for the role so that even if questions are not asked in the exact same way, candidates are being evaluated on the same metrics. Hamilton View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Withdrawal—decreasing your interest in others’ resources. Sometimes this means simply walking away from a resource of value. Expansion—increasing the number of alternatives where people can get something they value. “To increase another’s dependence on you, you can try... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

complements existing distributed caching services. 3Plex (formerly Truck-it-now) Tania Yannus Ben Gordon Business Track Runner-Up 3plex (formerly TruckitNow.com) is a B2B in transportation focusing on re-intermediating third party logistics companies –the 25bn high... View Details

30 Nov 2022
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Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

University; and Sorabh Tomar of Southern Methodist University. Investigating the value of diversity US public firms aren’t required to publicly disclose their workforce demographics or policies, but corporations started sharing more data... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2016
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Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

based on productivity, you’re going to tend to hire more of these individuals,” Minor says, adding that many companies value productivity above other traits. Longtime General Electric CEO Jack Welch had his... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Adding Value Through Complements Competing with Network Effects Creating Value for Talent Mastering Productivity Implementing Strategy Featured Exercises Create a customer... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

discuss how these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact and of how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social responsibility activities.... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

sufficiently motivated group of commandos) could knock the canal out for at least a year. Sabotage would be harder during wartime, of course—the only battle during World War II that would have been affected by adding 17 days of additional... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

the next level by learning how to maximize investment portfolio value with alternative investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a... View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Master negotiation techniques to secure maximum value for yourself and your organization. 8 weeks 4-5 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you... View Details

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

increase the value they delivered through conversational (speech, text), ambient (in all types of devices), and contextual (understand what you want) AI, and each process would continuously learn and adapt. The embedded AI systems would... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The Balanced Scorecard introduced customer metrics into performance management systems. Scorecards feature all manner of wonderful objectives relating to the customer value proposition and customer outcome metrics—for example, market... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

Rings film trilogy elevated New Zealand as a fantasy destination, the country was struggling to set itself apart from Australia. In-depth interviews, focus groups, and surveys revealed that New Zealand could appeal to a specific stripe of unpretentious traveler—one who... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

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