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01 Dec 2004
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Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs

business schools can’t — the HBS experience, through its alumni teachers and its use of the case method. “The case method and the exposure to some pretty high-level executives” distinguish the course from other classes, Burke says. “It’s also a fairly low-cost View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
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Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues.... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Private Equity; Brazil; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Operation Management; General Management; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth and Development; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Transportation; Human Capital; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Brazil

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A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value

By: William Shrank, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain and Niteesh K. Choudhary

Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control costs rather than improve health. PBMs should be evaluated along three... View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Health; System; Cost Management; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Innovation and Invention; Performance Effectiveness; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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16 Aug 2010
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HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

Analysis": Managers frequently need to estimate the size of their markets, both for existing products, so that sales forecasts can be developed, and for new products, so that market opportunities can be assessed. This tookit enables... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

businesses.” In 2008, companies averaged 2.9 general managers, compared to 1.6 in 1986, according to data from several surveys. The average number of functional managers reporting directly to the CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details

27 Sep 2017
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Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

from general merchandisers to cotton commodity brokers, they opened an office in New York in 1858, the center of the commodities trading business. The firm served as brokers between farmers selling cotton and industrialists and exporters... View Details

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Bloomberg: Investment Management course tips

Which Bloomberg tips are for the HBS Investment Management course? These Bloomberg tips below were created for students enrolled in the HBS Investment Management course. For more... View Details

20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

“because there were virtually no General Motors vehicles there, which meant no spare parts or maintenance available,” Goodwin recalls. Ultimately, politics won out, and the ambulance was shipped, but Goodwin knew it provided no benefit to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

03 Nov 2011
What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

several forms. But many proposed questions were clustered around inquiries about willingness to recommend, trust, and authenticity. Among suggested questions that managers might ask of themselves were: "What positive, relevant impact... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Sep 2016
HBS Seminar

Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Product Management - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Product Management Course Number 1765 Senior Lecturer Sara McKinley Torti Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Career Focus: This half course provides an introduction to product management, focused primarily on improving and scaling... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) The Entrepreneurial Manager In order to “educate leaders... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

greater flexibility in her work as well as in her lifestyle. One of her clients, General Electric, soon hired her as a program manager in the Corporate Environmental Programs department at its Fairfield,... View Details

05 Jul 2023
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How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

(iStockphoto/AzmanL) Search “inclusion” on Amazon and the majority of book entries that come up are for children. Is that an indicator of the current state of management art on the subject? Fortunately, there is a growing body of research... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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Relevent and LaLiga: Bringing Spanish Soccer to America

By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente

“Barcelona backs out of proposed LaLiga match in Miami.” It is December 2018, and Daniel Sillman, chief executive officer of sports and entertainment company Relevent, is tasked with finding a way forward after a significant setback. Relevent had found success by... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Football; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; General Management; Marketing; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Strategy; Sports Industry

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17 Feb 2003
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Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

cultivate stars. But if there are only a few stars, these individuals will tend to have a tougher time sustaining top performance. Q: What else are you working on? A: We also examine the portability of performance in a different labor market: star View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

May 2012 (Revised November 2015)
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The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)

By: David A. Garvin and Annelena Lobb

In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.–based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details