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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
business loans, job skills training, and unemployment benefits that were provided to white veterans. These publicly-provided benefits laid the foundation for much of the American middle class. That might... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not compensate for the cost of exercising discretion in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
Look at the business model. Walmart catapulted into a $400-billion-plus company by luring customers into stores with groceries at very low margins, reaping the benefits of additional trips, which generated increased sales of higher-margin... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic theory and management strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
away,” says Todd Mulder, food services general manager for Restaurant Associates, the hospitality firm that manages all campus food operations. “They are impressed that you can get sushi made to order,” in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Goodwin explains: “If [the lettuce] is grown in Massachusetts, I can put it on [a grocery store’s] dock at the same price or lower than if you grow it in California and truck it across the country. And so I get all that benefit of the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
two, he had become “a difficult child,” and by three she was calling him a “troublemaker.” He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since. Golf: A Course in Business: A Few Lessons Golf Can Teach Us About View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling shares in a jointly View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
physician. A growing number of providers have begun to address several of the imperatives, but few, if any, providers are currently addressing all of them. The shift to a value-based model is self-reinforcing. As more of these imperatives are addressed, the View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
tomorrow are going to be of the unsavory variety, 30 years of experience dealing with Iran shows that neglect and isolation are ineffective strategies for managing conflict. Second, diplomacy is about identifying what makes this situation... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
discount, or to fight back. In our classrooms, though, we teach that learning from feedback—including negative feedback—is an essential act of effective leadership. All of you experienced moments when classmates disagreed with your views; indeed, one of the many View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
from molds. It was also dependent on tariffs and benefited from disruptions caused by European wars: The first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. By the 1940s, Westmoreland had moved away from high-quality, hand-decorated,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the seats, balancing costs, and View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
class, gender, and race. There has been some progress, but there is still a long way to go. Less than 5 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are headed by a woman or non-white man. We expect that to change in some significant ways as the population who has View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
our communities on the benefits of electrification,” said BlocPower Co-Founder and General Manager Keith Kinch. In mid-February, Transportation Secretary Buttigieg added: “The President’s Bipartisan... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details