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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

It’s good to bring the core financial skills but boards these days are also looking for expertise on how to navigate economic uncertainty, capital allocation, cybersecurity, digital transformation and AI, and all things talent and human... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This capability has important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1992 (Revised April 1993)
  • Case

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
The Southern Co., an electric utility, is planning its compliance with the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The Act established a system of tradeable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions. The company must decide whether to install pollution control equipment and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107052 BBC Worldwide: Global Strategy Harvard Business School Case 507-034 In January 2007, John Smith, chief executive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

been priorities in national initiatives. Conclusions. Our study suggests an underutilized strategy for improving patient safety and staff efficiency: leveraging frontline staff experiences with work systems to identify and remove... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

"These social resources are acquired by mimicking the structures and activities of established firms, and by affiliating with high-status customers respectively," she wrote in the abstract to her recent paper, Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow: View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

with the organization as it's building its capacity and figuring out its accountability priorities. But that's still relatively rare. The third issue is the difference between financial and social metrics. We have a system of generally... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

the role of organization in regard to a business unit's success, or in the choice of which structure to use, is intertwined with a large number of other important factors. These include the strategy of the business, the quality of its... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 12 Nov 2019
  • News

Seismic Shift

years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent markets—she was called in to create View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • Profile

Georges F. Doriot

strategy for supporting the war effort earned him the rank of Brigadier General. He was an outlier who believed deeply in innovation, disciplined analysis and future focus. He refused to use HBS’s vaunted case method, preferring to... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

Michael Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an authority on organizational theory, organizational strategy, and finance. He is codirector of The Monitor Company Organizational Strategy... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

Bush, who spent $100 million on traditional marketing before dropping out. Can the same strategy succeed in the general election campaign?Probably not, for three reasons. First, Trump needs around 60 million votes to win, six times more... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

question: What are the best business management processes and practices needed by executives heading up companies that incorporate science-based innovation? A Different Management Strategy Sato believes that the challenges particular to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) Course Number 1789 Professor Tatiana Sandino Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits NOTE: Because there is considerable overlap between this course (SSV, #1789) and the spring course Strategy... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

A Message from Dean Clark

initiatives in Europe and Japan, the Latin America center is part of the School's continuing strategy to deepen the international content of our curriculum and research while opening new opportunities for cooperation with business and... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne