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- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a clear understanding of what he's... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
money instrument matures, and there is no [guarantee] that rates will stay the same over time. That is, short-dated fixed income instruments are subject to "reinvestment risk" (or, "interest rate risk"). Over long... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Corporate Venturing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
toward renewables, it also moves from variable cost to fixed cost—from an Opex world to a Capex one. How should pricing evolve to reflect a Capex world and induce consumption when energy is abundant and... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
than in models with fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
strokes" to quickly mobilize the organization, with initiating a "long march" that changes systems and habits. Leaders must start by building credibility and confidence in the organization through small wins. This can occur by View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
more as a consumer—a purchased good versus an experience that will transform their life.” RM: If I just think about the economics of the expenses—at least here at Harvard—about 70 percent of the expenses are fixed View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
always worse than you think they are and take longer to fix and cost more. But the goal of what I do is like building community. I've been a real estate developer since the early 1980s and it's always about... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
to be the most efficient. The central insight of the theory is that each method offers a different way of aligning decision-making authority with valuable "specific knowledge" inside the organization. The theory suggests that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
as money-market funds. Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink: Why 40% of Your Business Is Unprofitable, and How to Fix It by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes (DBA ’80) (Penguin Portfolio) Given the uncomfortable truth that it’s possible, even easy,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
ventilation, air quality, water, moisture, and security,” says Macomber. “Those aren't expensive to begin with. So, I think those will propagate through pretty quickly, and they’ll be must-haves, because the cost is not relatively very... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
have confidence. If you perform the appropriate due diligence up front, then you can be confident that you’ll make the right decisions, no matter where you are. What are some of the business issues you’ve dealt with? Cost issues, an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Houston emphasizes. “How often does anyone get a chance to do that?” — DB Creating a Global Blueprint for Change: John Kim’s work as director of operations research at the Clinton Health Access Initiative focuses on fixing bottlenecks in... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Abstract—More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change. Instead of trying to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
corporate confessions presents something of a behavioral paradox. Tasked with monitoring the legality of its own operations, why would firms that identify violations turn themselves in to regulators rather than quietly fix the problem?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
spending. Real estate costs are high. The taxation and legislation system is complex and difficult to navigate. Vijay Jain said he left a "cushy" job in investment banking to take advantage of the huge potential promised by... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin