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- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
there's been 45 major fire hydrant recalls the United States. Only half of those have actually been addressed and fixed. “The reason why the other half haven't been fixed is because cities don't know where their fire hydrants are. Our... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of negativity. Discouraged at being... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
survive. Another force is unsatisfactory personal relationships. I asked a CEO of a major multinational why he had his 35,000 employees trained in the 7 Habits. He said, "My wife had told me I didn't listen to our daughter." After he... View Details
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
1992). In Mumbai and at each of the subsequent Asia events, two inspiring new films – My HBS and The Case for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
Lysinger (MBA 2013). Two inspiring new films – My HBS and The Case for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. “When you look at what Harvard... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
A business unit leader faces a major decision when an employee critical to a high profile transaction asks for a unique compensation arrangement that has implications for the culture of the business. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were increasingly adopting smart phones... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
a lot of the leaders of major biotech companies, they come out of Baxter. And so there is a Baxter imprinting effect on the industry. That should be a fascinating piece of work. Marta Wosinska, who is in marketing, has been looking at the... View Details
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Michael Maples
style of investing,” Maples explained. “I don’t know if there is a right way or wrong way, but I like to spend my time developing roadmaps for the future. I try to capture the things in the world that are going through major... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one of those. IT? Business can’t function without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
majority signing a union pledge card. What’s wrong with secret ballot elections? If the Employee Free Choice Act were passed, workers who want a secret ballot election can have one. It’s just that the employer doesn’t have the right to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
the same time turning Marxism upside down.” And one major way in which Schumpeter upended Marx was in his treatment of the controversial question of monopoly. Writing in the 1930s and early 1940s — a time of mounting public anger over... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
comes from headlines we’ve seen this year. The Economist ran a cover story on the supposed new majority standing of women in the professional workforce with a picture of Rosie the Riveter and the headline “We Did It!” The Atlantic... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
builds employee loyalty and bolsters company reputation, but requires effective tools to carry out. Beshears’s research sheds important light on the presumed efficacy of social norms marketing in the investment context and is applicable to a range of other human... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
assistant professor at HBS, asked the panelists if it was true that price competition is still the major way Chinese consumers differentiate brands from one another. "We see a little bit of a shift away from price competition,"... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
majority of Fellowships in the $30,000-$50,000 range per year. The average starting salary at graduation is $135,000. Most alums are able to pay back loans in considerably less time than the terms provided. HBS also offers a variety loan... View Details
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Lean Data initiative have proved successful. Since joining Acumen she has been promoted to Associate Director and the team has grown from four to twenty people. In fact, Lean Data has been so successful that the majority of the team’s... View Details
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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
materials and required for handling waste streams. Because closed-looped processes are more efficient, they emit few greenhouse gases. Major Impact Areas Refrigerant Management Refrigerant gases, commonly used in air conditioning, are... View Details