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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
flexible arrangements. 4. Recruit and promote from diverse pools of candidates. 5. Provide leadership education. 6. Sponsor employee resource groups and mentoring programs. 7. Offer quality role models. 8. Make the chief diversity officer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, No. 141R. Purchase the note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108067 ADR Choices Harvard Business School Note 908-040 Six different business disputes, all in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Staff Directory | Baker Library
Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: data licensing and vendor relationships, data sourcing and access. Jen Beauregard Information Research Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: financial... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Prestige brands can expand their reach—and make their core customers proud
types of new customers: brand immigrants and brand tourists. Her findings show that while brand immigrants can dilute a brand’s image, brand tourists increase the pride of established customers by demonstrating admiration and proof of value for the brand, leading to a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
a way to pool financial resources. Haryopratomo: I basically became a pot salesman. [Sound of pots and pans] Like, “Hey ladies, we have this new pot—it uses Teflon.” And this is a place where people never use Teflon. So when I wiped the... View Details
- June 1995
- Case
Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A1): Getting to Know Each Other
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko
In its second year of operation, the joint venture between Northern Telecom (Nortel) of Canada and Tong Guang Electronics of China to manufacture telecommunications equipment in China has hit a crisis. The Chinese partner has asked Northern Telecom to replace its... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Joint Ventures; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Leadership; Telecommunications Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Canada; China
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Pamela A. Yatsko. "Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (A1): Getting to Know Each Other." Harvard Business School Case 395-081, June 1995.
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
effort. "To maintain a leadership position globally, the United States needs high value-added products and services to be the engine of its economy," says HBS professor emeritus Kent Bowen,... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
value created for users by the offering based on the technology; define the structure of the value chain, that is, the network of activities within the firm required to create and distribute the products or services offered to customers;... View Details
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Eva Tuecke | MBA
Eva Tuecke Computer Science Mather 2025 Cohort 7 Technological innovation is increasingly transforming so many aspects of life. I'm excited to be part of the HUTIF program, where I will learn with and from a community committed to problem solving, View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Now You Can Choose
Finnegan In this issue of the Bulletin, Dean Nohria discusses the School’s efforts to ensure that an HBS education remains a transformational experience. Across the campus and at our global centers, the School is positioning itself to... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In addition to the View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
Transition has been a recurring theme for Marilynn Davis, who has worked in financial, general management, or consulting positions in a variety of large and small companies, including American Express, General Motors, and Carver Federal... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
Summing Up Fine Coupling of People: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Manufacturers and distributors are succeeding in various approaches — including postponement, computer-aided manufacture, robotics, rapid response, positive tracking, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
fuels, all those petroleum products will be replaced with bio-based alternatives. And Macro Oceans, the startup Perkins founded three years ago, is positioning seaweed to be the ideal successor. Early in his... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
intelligent choice so important to effectively functioning markets. Worse yet, the financial products were created by financial engineers motivated to make them complex and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
summer at a consumer packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity this gave me is a great complement to the strategic and View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail