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The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win

By: Robert Simons
As business leaders worry about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools; Purpose Of Business Schools; Management Education; Business School Curriculum; Strategy Execution; U.S. Competitiveness; Capitalism; Management Profession; Innovation; Competing To Win; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Design; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management
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  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

surprisingly, local governments exercise the greatest control over urban land in cities that adopted market reforms earliest. Slavery's Scientific Management: Accounting for Mastery Author:Caitlin C.Rosenthal Publication:In Slavery's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

concept. Should they expand the current KCONs to include more days, shows, and events; launch KCONs in new geographies such as Southeast Asia or Australia; or some combination of these growth strategies? How concerned should they be with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
    • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
    Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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    • 13 Oct 2011
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Building a Business in the Context of a Life

    Kraus comes in. Kraus teaches the second-year MBA course Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL) and is currently helping to develop a similar Executive Education program called Crossroads. The two courses attract different... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he currently serves on the board of visitors. Hagan is managing director and member of the investment committee at Flexis Capital. She was also a managing director at Donaldson,... View Details
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    Courses - Entrepreneurship

    including entrepreneurial management. The Entrepreneurial Manager Entrepreneurial managers transform opportunities into companies and institutions that make a difference in the world. In their successful “pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources View Details
    • 03 May 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

    Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan
    • 02 Feb 2012
    • News

    Harvard Business School Faculty Lead Immersion Trip to Israel

    • July 1994 (Revised April 1995)
    • Case

    San Francisco Bay Consulting

    By: George P. Baker III and Karin B Monsler
    San Francisco Bay Consulting leads the field of economic consulting and litigation support in the application of powerful computers and cutting edge software to manipulate and analyze large data sets. The transfer pricing system, used to facilitate the purchasing and... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Profit; Marketing; Fluctuation; Consulting Industry; Computer Industry
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    • 01 Nov 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

    comments below. Editor's note: Heskett explores the leader's role in his upcoming book, Win From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage, available in January 2022. References: Randall Beck and Jim Harter, “Managers View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
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    Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

    Founder applications will be evaluated based on the clarity and strength of the problem hypothesis, current status and milestones, strength of customer discovery findings, clarity and strength of key assumptions, and evidence of... View Details
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    and other non-state actors on how to credibly use carbon credits as part of their climate commitments. He discusses the current challenges and opportunities in voluntary carbon markets, the role of businesses and governments in ensuring... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

    but could potentially work full time. Those “missing from work,” who have been unemployed for a long time but are still seeking employment. And those “missing from the workforce,” who aren’t currently working but could be under the right... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • May 2022
    • Article

    Investment as the Opportunity Cost of Dividend Signaling

    By: Zach Kaplan and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
    We provide evidence that firms with weak investment opportunities (those whose current earnings justify a greater valuation than firms with strong investment opportunities) signal their permanent earnings level through their dividends. In the cross-section, we show... View Details
    Keywords: Dividends; Earnings; Investment Opportunities; Payout Policy; Signaling; Capital Structure; Business Earnings; Investment; Opportunities
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    • 05 Mar 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

    demand reimbursement from the poor. And they have fought arbitration decisions that they believe have not take into account the one-sided nature of deals, underlying corruption, and the impact of economic crises. Q: What are some of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    largest consumer debt in the US, trailing only mortgage loans—and surpassing car loans, credit card debt, and home equity lines of credit. Source: New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax Many people who currently carry student debt are... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • February 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Olympus (A)

    By: Jay W. Lorsch and Suraj Srinivasan
    As 2012 approached the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in the... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Electronics Industry; Japan
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    • 01 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

    consumers can more flexibly adjust habits. More sophisticated firms take this into account when formulating their strategies and making long-run forecasts. Attention of regulators. The Federal Trade Commission recently released a report... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products