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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
been lightly studied academically. And yet its entrepreneurial and management learnings have broad application beyond restaurants. Sited within General Management, this course explores exactly that. We will run the gamut from planning for... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
positions. Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model Authors:Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard, and Kari L. Granger Publication:Chap. 16 in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by Scott... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
internal strategic resources, many companies continue to have outmoded strategic perspectives. There is a surplus of capitalchasing a scarcity of talented peopleand the knowledge they possess.— Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal In the competitive-strategy... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
stages: Compliance: In this initial phase, companies often start with activities related to complying with regulations. Activities are not strategic or centralized. In addition to compliance, employees may volunteer to work on recycling... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
progress in the public sphere of work, making it difficult to expose and undermine the social and cultural bases of inequality. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in their responses to our questions,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
The research firm BloombergNEF found that “As of midyear, there were 318 fully electric and 145 plug-in hybrids on the market globally. There were 84 models available in the U.S. in mid-2022, up from 59 at the end of 2020.”Bloomberg also... View Details
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Lieutenant Commander Kristen B. Fabry (MBA ’02) L. Paul (“Jerry”) Bremer III (MBA ’66) David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi (MBA ’71) Dileep Nair (AMP 114, 1994) HBS professor Benjamin C. Esty (MBA ’91) U.S. President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) Brigadier View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
studies is a general phenomenon; in this sense, this approach is complementary to detailed sociological or anthropological case studies." "If people want to do something about poverty there—and it's a very poor country,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Making the MBA Degree More Accessible
inclusion and first generation students, including resources, identity and affinity groups, support structures, student profiles, and programming, events, and webinars. “There's been a big shift in terms of how we create opportunities for... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
into account, significant differences emerge between taxes that are equivalent in standard models but generate different information on taxable transactions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
directly: high oil prices, a growing demand in emerging economies like China and India, and the possibility of agribusiness companies competing successfully in the production of biofuels. Bunge had traditionally followed an organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
to report their economic, environmental, and social conduct. Notes Massie, GRI's founding chair, “In addition to governmental mechanisms, we need the GRI framework to keep globalization on a positive track. More than 110 global companies,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
bias blinds them to local issues. And companies often fail to adequately check the actions of their local managers. Standardized Products, Universal Values? Global Product Standardization? Although there is a general perception that... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
“Energy Sale” model in India. This model, also known as the “OPEX” model, shifts the performance risk of renewables from the corporations to CleanMax, allowing customers to pay only for energy consumed without upfront asset investment,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
every case through that lens." O'Neill also became involved in the School's mentoring program with the Taft Middle School, and as General Academic Council representative for his section, he was a driving force in reshaping the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace