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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
Miller. Here was the number one male skier in the world making it clear to one and all that he just didn't care or worse, was doing his best to do badly. That really hurts. He went from anointed to disjointed. Q: What do you think of the... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the pack through good service, she... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
polarizing filters in gunsights, binoculars, periscopes, rangefinders, and goggles. In 1945, net sales reached $16 million, and the number of company employees grew to over 1,000. 5 At the end of the war, the company’s military contracts... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
unreported numbers said. It’s startling to find that managers are not even neutral; they’re somewhat negative.” RESEARCHERS CREATE FORECASTING MODEL To test their ideas, the researchers studied 50 big-box retailers in the United States,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
How to Create a Presence Without Being Present
greater number of candidates. “Yello allows us to reach a wider and more diverse audience,” she adds, noting that the virtual platform helps them create a presence among a greater number of business schools... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
attract top talent.” Leadership Fellows enabled access to a variety of qualified candidates, among whom Henry stood out. “He was absolutely my number one choice: he combined an amazing tech background with public sector experience.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
need to better understand how this group feels about the School while they are here and after they leave. By serving them better, the committee hopes to build the level of engagement among Executive Education alumni in a number of ways:... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
time with their children. From an environmental impact standpoint, a good number of the roles that we place have some sort of remote work, so we’re saving commuting time and getting cars off the road.” Prokanga is also in the rigorous... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Foundation did a good bit of work in creating the Meth Project back in 2005, and that was created by Tom Siebel. Tom Siebel was a marketing guy who had been the number two person at Oracle and had created his own company. And he said, I'm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
mere 2 percent deficit in a $50 million budget is $1 million, a number that "is completely unacceptable in the nonprofit realm." The fundraising and financial aspects of their jobs, say the HBS MBAs who were interviewed for this article,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right people to help your venture fly? If you get your team right, the idea will come. And the money will follow." Bhide, who for the past eight years has been studying five hundred mid-level entrepreneurial businesses around the country, says fledgling entrepreneurs... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
proposed that "the board could tie the CEO's exit package with the grooming of a successor." B.V. Krishnamurthy said that "the ultimate solution may be similar to the job rotation concept of the Japanese companies in their heydey. In this scenario, a... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the... View Details
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Currency Options: Historical Quotes
currency, length of option and type Select any additional variables (number of contracts, number or trades, spot high price/low price, etc) Select your output format. View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
globalizes, we need to give back, and pedagogy happens to be something we’re good at,” observes HBS professor Howard Stevenson, who cochaired the program with HBS senior lecturer Mike Roberts and professor Youngme Moon. Stevenson adds that a View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
given to their competitors. Using analytical software that evaluates visual similarities between designs, Gross compared each submission with prior entries by the same designer, and related the similarity to the number and quality of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
to Angella about CAP, the challenges a modern nonprofit faces, and how a new breed of donors has shifted the sector. CAP'S CHARGE "We bring the experience of HBS alumni to nonprofits that may not otherwise be able to access those types of resources. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Career Services Steps Up Alumni Support
existing counseling services have been expanded, Sullivan says. “We’ve increased the number of career coaches available, both in person and on the phone.” Alumni are eligible for three free counseling sessions a year, and appointments can... View Details