Time As Money - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

such as cost per cubic meter or cost per megabyte. Estimating the unit times of activities. Having calculated the cost per time unit of supplying resources to the business's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

It is hard to imagine a more difficult and tragic trial by fire for a new leader. On September 4, 2001, Robert Mueller started his new job as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A mere week later, on September 11,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Appex provided centralized services that enabled independent mobile carriers to operate as a single seamless network. Appex’s services included call forwarding across carriers, fraud prevention services, billing and customer service.... View Details

05 Oct 2023
News

On the Move: Massimo (Max) Magni (MBA 2003)

strategic long-term growth of the company. Magni’s journey to Macy’s has been many years in the making. He grew up in a village of 8,000 people in Italy. His parents believed in the importance of traveling, so Magni spent a year as a... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

16 Nov 2016
Blog Post

My HBS Journey

amount of possibilities ahead. What I can guarantee is that you will have the opportunity to reflect and have fun. You’ll learn and accomplish a lot here, through amazing classes, conferences, treks, projects, and clubs—or whatever you choose to dedicate your View Details

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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong Author MBA Students tag Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care at HBS Recently the HCI was able catch up with this year's Health Care Club... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Better. But the path to his latest book begins earlier in his career—when he first became a manager. He was at the New York Times back then, and he was pretty confident in his new role. After all, he had his MBA from HBS, and he was... View Details

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

deposits fell as interest rates increased in a somewhat unexpected way. Well before the bank run last week, their deposit customers had been withdrawing money to pay their operating expenses, while their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

that thinking about a job as a relationship could serve job seekers in other fields. If you are reading this, you probably have the good fortune to have made some choices about the jobs you took or are going to take. Prestige and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

the iTunes LP format allows music companies to sell albums with bonus material such as photos. And the new Michael Jackson album will be available only in bundled format. Signs of things to come? A: I think so, yes. The labels waited a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

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Preparing to Teach - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

takes place on multiple levels. First-time case instructors typically devote time to learning about the core principles of participant-centered learning. They also reflect on the ways in which their academic and professional background,... View Details

04 Oct 2019
HBS Seminar

Annabelle Fowler (Harvard University), Harvard University

2018
Report

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World study is the eighth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s "Future of" series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and important issues involving energy and the environment. A central theme is... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Carbon Emissions; Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Sources

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June 2021
Case

One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?

By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais

This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Decision Making; Accounting

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05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

all organizations in all cultures, in times of success as opposed to decline, when talking about the past as opposed to the future, or in dealing with employees of all... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

lumping them all together. That said, the success of the Silicon Valley community and the massive wealth that some people have accumulated have caught the eye of India. And as in most things in life, timing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

22, 2008. Barclays Group Archives. View as PDF Barclays Group. Press Release, September 22, 2008. Barclays Group Archives. View as PDF In the mortgage securitization process, a borrower takes out a loan from... View Details

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a well-publicized end during his two-year run View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

22 Jun 2022
Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

approach is highly rewarded in our current world culture. "I teach the reader the practice of free attention ... self-observing in real time as our implicit felt senses of our current life situation form."... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

in organizations, such as the World Management Survey, the Executive Time Use Study, and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H, conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau. Her... View Details

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