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Brittani Rettig

on-the-fly decisions in front of classes of more than 80 students as I lead them through a workout. In both the HBS classroom and my fitness class, I never fully know what to expect, but I do the best I can to remain confident and give it... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care

31 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management

The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the Team Jonathan... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

01 May 2017
Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

or CMO). The MBA is, essentially, a leadership degree—and HBS trains the top leaders in the world. While I was intimidated by the prestige of HBS, I knew it was a place that would give me the tools to be a more strategic and thoughtful... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

reinsurance unit of General Re Corporation, Life Re Corporation of America. The firm continued to grow as a major player in the U.S. reinsurance business, helped considerably during the 1990s by several View Details

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction program, for example. But your books detail an integrated set of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for Burger King’s View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

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The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win

By: Robert Simons

As business leaders worry about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools; Purpose Of Business Schools; Management Education; Business School Curriculum; Strategy Execution; U.S. Competitiveness; Capitalism; Management Profession; Innovation; Competing To Win; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Design; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management

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23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Brexit is Not Better for Britain Britain rarely has referendums, and for good reason. They call for binary decisions on complex issues, and voters have all sorts of reasons for voting one way or another. It is unprecedented that British... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

issues, dynamic pricing; and automated vehicles. Improving mass transit systems that connect to other forms of transportation. Making the US easier for foreign visitors to enter. An infrastructure bank to make targeted strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

technology at all but with the way you are collecting and using your data, experts say. Although getting your CRM program in order is an essential component of achieving customer loyalty, there's much more that you need to do. "Marketers need a good, thoughtful... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

Profile

Georges F. Doriot

five-year plan as a corporate strategy. “He was an extraordinary individual with a quiet charisma that made him the trusted adviser of a wide group of businessmen and other leaders,” wrote Robert McCabe, MBA 1958, who became a... View Details

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector enables readers to attain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. The authors offer tools to develop the knowledge to pursue social entrepreneurship more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

outside of the market, or having to engage in costly and risky strategic behavior. I'll draw on recent examples of market design ranging from labor markets for doctors and new economists, to kidney exchange, and school choice in New York... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

as CEO of GE, arguably the biggest and most complex corporate leadership job in the world, and how he frames and implements his priorities for GE. Describes the processes that guided Immelt's own developments and the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

instead, it has become integrated with the whole manufacturing process—David Upton But once that decision has been made, "sitting" is far from the operative word for IT systems, which require the same kind of continuous... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

for YouTube creators and advertisers. I really, really loved that job but I eventually hit a place where I wanted to be more involved in some of the higher level strategic decision-making (i.e. the kind that determined the existence of... View Details

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources allocated to those low-volume... View Details

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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