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- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
service lines, market segments, and competitive positioning. Marketing did the thinking, managed the brand and consumer franchise in consumer goods companies, and provided support to the sales force. In this... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
2030 deadline to halve emissions. It’s important to note that the problem continues to compound until we get to net-zero or, better yet, net-negative emissions which we don’t expect to occur until around 2050.” These days, Hilton is... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
charity. [related readings] “It’s a way to clearly communicate that ‘We are unique in the space,’” Choi says. “Here’s what we are and here’s what we aren’t.” More traditional organizations have also been opening up. The US Department of Veterans Affairs tells patients... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
current use gifts totaled $41 million. This represented an increase of 11 percent from $37 million a year earlier, surpassing expectations in light of the pandemic-related economic disruption. Going forward, sustaining the HBS community's... View Details
- Web
Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
and dispatch. Unlike the -W option, one's job is not killed if exceeding the -We run time estimate value. User Limits At this time, the following constraints have been put in place to help give fair usage: For interactive sessions, each... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
more than fivefold over 2021 and 2022. Graph showing forty-foot equivalent (FEU) container prices on various routes increasing in 2021 and falling in late 2022. Source: Freightos Maersk’s decarbonization strategy While many consumers and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
the team the following three core values that they can expect from me and hold me accountable to. The first value that I have is one of congruence—that what I think, feel, say, and do will always be congruent. The second one, which is a... View Details
- Web
Charts & Statistics - Leadership
begins Suburbs start to form Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Medical advances extend life expectancy More people now live in suburbs than cities Population soars to 179 million largest ten-year increase Influence: High 60 1960 s 19 Baby boom... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
successfully market an innovative product? The idea that we rail against in class is that product development just throws a new product over the wall to marketing and expects them to go sell it. For the last 50 years, innovation theorist... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
, certain approaches with Rparallel or Rfuture , or others), one must also determine how the memory will be consumed for each fork/thread/process/branch of the code. If each has it's own copy of the data and data structures, then memory... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
systemic risk so large that we have no choice but to challenge the status quo. The private sector must be an active partner in climate mitigation and adaptation – pushing responsibility to the consumer level or View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
to be deliberate and thoughtful about what they offer. It’s not enough to put a ping-pong table in the office and expect your culture to change and your employees to relax at work.” How companies can encourage employee wellness Companies... View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
choice, why would you have to be brand loyal?" Consumer loyalty, he continued, "will vary and fluctuate on a technological continuum of innovation/change (loyal one day and maybe not the next)." Based on personal... View Details
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
good human judgment.” realJoannLyles added, “Tech can't make moral distinctions. Therefore, when a company fails to make moral distinctions, expect tech to fail in the same way. As one person, Susan Wojcicki is limited by her own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Bluestockings—which still exists—Grantham did not expect to return to the independent bookstore sector. She didn’t expect there to be a thriving sector to return to. “I’m not competing with Amazon. I am a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Harvard Business School
Disney Consumer Products based in Paris and led the company's entry into Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and post-Apartheid South Africa. Hightower grew Disney's business from $650 million to $4.5 billion with... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
Internship: Rock Summer Fellowship How do you do it? I have to have a clear understanding of where my time is spent. I block everything on my calendar - eating, showering, commuting... everything. Then I'm able to see what's open, and form realistic View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
illness in June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin's Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. "I was clueless going into Professor Levitt's... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
Many distinctive aspects of the textile and apparel industries present challenges to implementing electronic commerce. First, and perhaps most important, is the difficulty of accurately characterizing the product online. Many of the characteristics of a garment that... View Details