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    Building a Culture of Experimentation

    Why don’t organizations test more? After examining this question for several years, I can tell you that a central reason is culture. As companies try to scale up their experimentation capacity, they often find that the obstacles are not tools and technology but... View Details

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    Vungle Inc. Improves Monetization Using Big-Data Analytics

    By: Bert De Reyck, Ioannis Fragkos, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Casey Lichtendahl, Hammond Guerin and Andrew Kritzer
    The advent of big data has created opportunities for firms to customize their products and services to unprecedented levels of granularity. Using big data to personalize an offering in real time, however, remains a major challenge. In the mobile advertising industry,... View Details
    Keywords: Big Data; Monetization; Data and Data Sets; Advertising; Mobile Technology; Customization and Personalization; Performance Improvement
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    • January 2018 (Revised January 2021)
    • Case

    Colombia's 4G Road Program: The Pacífico 3 Bond Offer

    By: John Macomber, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal
    Colombia conceived its 4G (Fourth Generation) Road Program to try to attract $17 billion from the private sector for investment in toll roads. The nation had also created the National Infrastructure Agency of Colombia (ANI) to oversee multiple investments, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Private Public Partnerships; Infrastructure; Projects; Finance; Emerging Markets; Colombia
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    Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

    MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences students are subject to HBS Financial Aid policies and limits (e.g. student budgets, loans and veterans benefits). Harvard Business School Student Budget Harvard Business School Financial Aid View Details
    • September 2011
    • Module Note

    Orientation to Leadership Intelligence Days, 2011

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo
    Julie Bornstein, senior vice president of Sephora Direct, is seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit and there is a desire to... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Online Technology; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    • March 29, 2021
    • Editorial

    Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost

    By: Shibeal O'Flaherty, Michael Sanders and A.V. Whillans
    As organizations large and small face the twin challenges of increasingly strained budgets and burned out workforces, what can managers do to keep employees engaged—without breaking the bank? In this piece, the authors share new research on the power of symbolic awards... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation; Psychology; Work; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Social Psychology
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    • Research Summary

    Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations

    Michael C. Jensen's research is aimed at obtaining a clearer understanding of how the 'organizational rules of the game' affect a manager's ability to accomplish his or her goals and how the rules can be structured to resolve problems and increase productivity. ... View Details
    • April 2019
    • Case

    American Ballet Theatre

    By: Anita Elberse, Tsubasa Nakajima and Melissa Rodman
    Kara Medoff Barnett, executive director of American Ballet Theatre (ABT), widely regarded as one of the world’s premier ballet companies, faces several challenges. It is June 2018. Despite its prestige, the company’s $45 million annual budget and $22 million endowment... View Details
    Keywords: Performing Arts; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Non-profit; Contracts; Labor Economics; General Management; Arts; Entertainment; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing; Strategy
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    • 04 May 2017
    • News

    The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

    • Program

    Real Estate Management Program

    value through healthy, sustainable, and climate-friendly design Deliver projects on time and on budget Build and contract with industry talent Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with... View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation

    By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
    The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks. We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
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    • January 2003 (Revised September 2007)
    • Background Note

    A Note on Racing to Acquire Customers

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Examines factors that motivate a firm's race to acquire customers in newly emerging markets and explores conditions under which racing strategies are likely to yield attractive returns. Provides a definition of racing behavior, introduces the notion of an optimal level... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Price Bubble; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Behavior; Competition
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    Good cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management

    Joint work with Alexander Gümbel, Saïd Business School and Lincoln College Oxford

    In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm... View Details

    • November 2013
    • Teaching Note

    8 Spruce Street

    By: Arthur I Segel
    The case begins in March 2009 during the depths of the recession with Forest City Ratner (FCR) Companies, a New York City based developer, facing the decision to halt construction half-way on 8 Spruce Street, the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, or... View Details
    Keywords: Real Estate; Investment; Real Estate Industry; Japan
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    • 2006
    • Article

    Capital Budgeting: The Role of Cost Allocations

    By: Ian D. Gow and Stefan Reichelstein
    A common issue for firms is how to allocate capital resources to various investment alternatives. An extensive and long-standing literature in finance has examined various aspects of capital budgeting, including capital constraints, the determination of discount rates,... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Resource Allocation; Performance Evaluation; Cost Management; Research; Investment; Cash Flow; Risk Management; Performance Capacity
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    • Program

    Succeeding as a Strategic CFO

    as capital budgeting and managing risk, in an effective manner Gain confidence in situations outside of your areas of expertise Strengthen your communication skills Improve how you describe your plans and performance results to... View Details
    • 2011
    • Teaching Note

    UFIDA (A) (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Bin Yang and E. Chen
    The five-case UFIDA series is about China's largest supplier of management/ERP software, its 20-year evolution, and current strategic challenges. The (A) case is the cornerstone of the series. It introduces the company's history, strategic turning points, current... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Competition; Computer Software; Emerging Markets; Strategy; Applications and Software; China
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    • September 2009 (Revised April 2011)
    • Supplement

    Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc. (C)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Faaiza Rashid
    Describes Autodesk's engagement in Integrated Project Delivery—a new model of risk management, inter-firm teamwork, and multi-objective (aesthetic, cost, and sustainability) optimization in building projects. In 2008, Autodesk, Inc. the world's largest design software... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Groups and Teams; Goals and Objectives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Integration; Construction Industry
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    • 05 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

    collaboration. The number of collaborative postings also increased as R&D budgets grew. Yet Zhang notes the potential for large differences depending on the industry. “Software companies may have a greater need for a collaborative... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 08 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 8, 2010

    domestic and imported inputs. Value data for imports and exports of services are too aggregated and valuations are questionable, while price data for service exports and imports are almost non-existent. Foreign direct investment data are of high quality, but quality... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne