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- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
needs at any particular moment." She also posed the problem of finding insider "CEO material willing to wait in the sidelines." Andrew Campbell commented that "you often have to reassess your succession plan when the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Organizational Response to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain enduring differences in organizational strategies.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
foreign bank capital flows; thus, U.S. monetary policy affects credit conditions for EME firms. We show that the spillover is stronger in higher-yielding and more financially open markets and for firms with a higher reliance on foreign... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
poor execution. For example, the Checkout Channel repeated its broadcasts every ten minutes. That was just about the right length of time for consumers, who spend an average of eight minutes waiting in the checkout line. However, it irritated checkout staff, who had to... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My sense is, the IRA will push us over the edge here in the US, and we will enter an... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
reciprocity measured after surprising an employee with a raise is fundamentally different from that posited to explain persistent above-market wages. Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/oDesk.pdf Cases & Course View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
materials science from Northwestern and an M.S. from Stanford. After graduation, Agarwala returned to India, where in 1996 he started a successful iron-ore mining company and later founded a Calcutta-based management training school.... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
quizzes, must be completed by the stated deadline. If a participant does not complete a module by the deadline, they must still work through the materials and complete the quiz; however, their score will be recorded as a zero for that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details
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1.5 Attendance | MBA
documentation. Excused Recruiting Absences When there is a recruiting need that cannot be accommodated outside of class or on an Open Day, students may take Excused Recruiting Absences, which are valid for most recruiting activities... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
To remain competitive MySpace had to release its own platform, and now it needs to decide whether to build its own proprietary application platform or join OpenSocial, a Google-sponsored open source platform. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
enterprise, the future is not something that just happens. It is something they create. —Richard S. Tedlow A born empire builder, Carnegie could see in the early 1870s that steel was destined to transform the material basis of... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, prize allocation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
War II, tracing the decentralizing effects of the draft, rationing, and Ferdinand Eberstadt's Controlled Materials Plan. Also included are overview chapters on the impact of women and African Americans on business, as well as... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. Millennium Pharmaceuticals: Alan Crane (photo: Shelly R. Harrison) As the ability to analyze a patient's genetic material is developed, however, many believe... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other domain to sustain the sector devoted to consumption." He is... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
policy epoch; second, conditional on the first choice, it has to decide on its local responsiveness strategy at the onset of each policy epoch. India, which experienced two policy shocks-shutting down to MNEs in 1970 and then opening up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the University of St. Thomas business school in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso