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- 29 May 2013
- News
Harvard Business School Celebrates Class Day
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
for this include the ten-year maturity of typical option awards, which allows a long window for value recovery, plus the relatively high volatility of many stocks with significant price drops, making a similar rebound less far-fetched. "I'm not convinced the answer is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Stocking Up Can Build Customer Value
and fewer stock-outs, regardless of item price. "Retailers are shortsighted if they stock inventory by thinking only in terms of their own economics," says Bell. His findings offer the numbers to back up an intuitive assumption: stock what the customer wants and she... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
firms in front of the profit curve despite a high level of integration, Christensen, Raynor, and Verlinden assert. "To the extent a company like IBM maintains the flexibility to couple and decouple operations rather than irrevocably sell them off, it has an even... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
recap by the authors follows each account, noting the important principles it illustrates. Exercises are also included to spur creative thinking. The Heart of Change is a helpful package of fresh ideas for those looking to break new ground in their organizations. —... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
differing financial norms. "If you understand the religious principles underlying these restrictions, you can sometimes create contracts or other arrangements that accommodate them," he said, citing leases as one example of a familiar financial tool deemed fully... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
should ensure that the right parties have been approached, in the right sequence, to address the right interests, under the right expectations, and face the right consequences of walking away if there is no deal. Paths to Power by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
U.S. hospitals. From smelting plants to accounting offices to hospital pharmacies, he's seen the technique pay off. "If companies learn to treat every problem as an idiosyncrasy and approach solving it as an experiment," says Spear, "they can always make progress." -... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
check” with higher-ups, peers, and former subordinates to get a clear picture of the candidate. In conclusion, Merck's Gilmartin noted, “So many times when people talk about ethics, they talk about the big things, but what you really need to worry about are the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
accessible to people of all income levels. Zuboff and Maxmin state their aim as “the beginning of a conversation” challenging present assumptions about capitalism, commerce, and the logic of economic growth. — Laura View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
“Over the last decade, the library has fielded an increasing number of inquiries from scholars interested in topics beyond traditional economic or business history,” notes Laura Linard, Baker’s director of Historical Collections. “We’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
MAYO: Since the 1970s, the MBA has become a necessary credential to pursue the inside track to corporate power. So much of what business schools teach is focused on making the right managerial decisions at a particular moment in time,”... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
governor in 2006—Silbert responds, "It's not something I'd rule out. But how would it fit in my life? I like the balance I have now." While she graduated over 20 years ago, Silbert values the new HBS contacts she's made—none of whom she'd known as an View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old. According to his daughter Laura U. Moon, Managing Director of Initiatives at Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
vmeste? (Can we manage enterprises together?). This initiative laid the groundwork for our subsequent effort with Laura Gordon Fisher, head of MBA Admissions, to recruit qualified Russians and Eastern... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
my long experience dealing with Soviet organizations, I knew that the way decisions were implemented and what actually happened depended more on the lowest echelon of the hierarchy than the top." In addition, Vlachoutsicos, in close cooperation with View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
Palepu's own research has made them acutely aware of how critical a worldwide perspective can be. “It's a lot more work to build globally robust ideas,” Palepu remarks, “but by encouraging our faculty to do this, we can develop more valuable knowledge.” — View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
Mulan Chu Chao Center will open where Kresge once stood. Made possible by a gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation, it will be a hub for executives and a bridge to the HBS community. MBA Program Innovation Continuing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine.” When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest. Today, MBA students again are flocking to real... View Details