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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
what we were seeing,” says Ethan Rouen, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, who conducted the study with HBS Professor George Serafeim and HBS doctoral candidate Botir Kobilov. “This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
in 2013, Hilton noted a lack of job opportunities in renewable energy. So, he went into management consulting and then a software company, before landing at Tesla in 2017. The culture was challenging but “It was the most exciting clean... View Details
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Electricity - Business & Environment
Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, Harvard Business School “Given the urgency required to reduce emissions and the political realities faced in doing so, private investors–not governments—will need to be the key... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
inner workings of the company. For instance, I was curious about the management of its supply chain, the types of analyses that were conducted to develop, validate, and review business strategies, how incentives were designed to drive... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Valleydene provided Barford with the flexibility he needed to spend more time with his ailing wife (who died in 1991 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis) and six children. Beyond the boardroom, Barford has been associated in various View Details
- Web
Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
ICHOM supports a key strategic agenda item in Michael Porter’s Value-Based Health Care Delivery framework. Value-Based Health Care Delivery Initiative The VBHCD initiative engages health care providers to measure and manage patient-level... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Oftentimes an organization might be engaged in a partnership at one point or another, or be a member of an umbrella organization ... but it's not really a network approach... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School professor of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
owners or managers of small businesses, whereas NABE respondents generally work at larger firms and were not owners. “The pandemic has brought about tremendous changes, and we couldn’t have anticipated the scale or speed at which they... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
problematic for the workplace since it implies that workers will slow down their work rather than risk appearing idle—making it difficult for managers to tell how much work employees actually have and leaving them no View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
of Operations at Spire Inc. Gain an overarching framework to evaluate opportunities, manage startups, and finance new ventures. My favorite part of Entrepreneurship Essentials was the financing and equity module. It taught me the basics... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Course MaterialsAdobe Systems: Working Towards a 'Suite' Release (A) Harvard Business School Case 409-014 The case examines the tools a manager can use to keep her project on track and manage conflict and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Investment; Performance Capacity; Financial Services Industry; United States
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008." Harvard Business School Case 309-069, May 2009. (Revised June 2011.)
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
sales, inventory, and gross margin. We show that our model can be used to benchmark retailers' performance in sales, inventory, and gross margin simultaneously. Finally, we show that our model can be used to generate sales forecasts even when sales were View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace