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- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
brain-tracking tools to determine why we prefer some products over others. "People are fairly good at expressing what they want, what they like, or even how much they will pay for an item," says Uma R. Karmarkar, an assistant professor at Harvard View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
that internal support or shared services groups provide, such straight-across cost or numeric comparisons become meaningless. Today's successful support unit earns its keep by being a trusted partner to the business units it serves. So,... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says Harvard View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
work as a teacher, stimulating those who took his classes and "even upsetting them now and again." Lodge's amiability belies the latter comment—but there's no question he challenged generations of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
totaled $64 million in fiscal 2023, compared with $58 million in fiscal 2022. As in fiscal 2022, this cash was largely generated by margin contributions from the School’s competitive business units—Executive... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
globe. The firm regularly receives awards and accolades—including partner of the year from Dell, Microsoft, and VMware—and Lee was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2012. In a field generally dominated by men, SHI is the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
In the News - Creating Emerging Markets
Professor Geoffrey Jones, Flipkart's sale to Walmart didn't signal that founders of the online retail firm were less patriotic than an earlier generation of business leaders. It meant they were driven by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
was an apples-to-apples comparison, and Dannon looked more reasonably priced than it did before. Sounds like they’re generally counting on the consumer to not do the math? MacKay: Some consumers might be doing these calculations, but... View Details
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK
By: Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber
In this study, we examine the effect on CEO pay of new legislation introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) at the end of 2002 that requires publicly-traded firms to submit an executive remuneration report to a non-binding shareholder vote ("say on pay") at the annual... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System
By: David A. Moss
The magnitude of the current financial crisis reflects the failure of an economic and regulatory philosophy that had proved increasingly influential in policy circles over the past three decades.
This paper suggests (1) that contrary to the prevailing wisdom,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability
Moss, David A. "An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-087, January 2009.
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
of the owner as setting general guidelines and hiring the right people to carry out the mission.” “My one talent is an ability to spot talent,” Bradley claims. While he certainly has deep reserves of other talents— creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Philippines, the U.S., and most recently, China. Aspiring Minds had seen success as a business-to-business (B2B) entity, creating and selling technology products geared towards industry verticals. By 2015 the business-to-consumer (B2C) side of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurs giving them the foundation needed to achieve their goals. Among those resources is the Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows This innovative fellowship program provides a select group of Harvard View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
performance. “Machine learning is able to utilize data that is both large in size, but also in a different form than what would traditionally fit into an Excel spreadsheet,” says Harvard Business School’s Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society and Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Sustainable Investing ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Sustainable Investing $1,850... View Details
- 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,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
2022) Halperin, a student in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, is the co-president of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Women’s Student Association, social chair of the MS/MBA program, and the international representative of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort
apply for both – and I loved both programs! Peek is really the most robust look at an MBA possible. Instead of just telling you how great and transformative an MBA can be, we are immersed in the world of the MBA and watch firsthand as it transforms your way of thinking... View Details