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  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

operations researchers have recognized that organizations can increase efficiency by adhering strictly to proven process templates, thereby rendering operations more stable and predictable. For several decades, researchers have also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

tolerant. And it reduces your need to place trust in any individual centralized institution. In bitcoin, people submit transactions to the system, just like you might tell your credit card company to send money to a merchant. All the computers simultaneously try to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • May 2017
  • Case

Pho Hoa Dorchester

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu
Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, Massachusetts that opened in 1992. As he approached retirement in recent years, the founder/owner has scaled down his involvement in the day-to-day operations, leading to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Pho Hoa; Tam Le; Small Business; Restaurants; Dorchester; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Family Business; Change Management; Transition; Diasporas; Cash Flow; Food; Employment; Wages; Working Conditions; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Ownership Stake; Franchise Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; Viet Nam; Massachusetts; Boston; Eastern United States
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  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

in Austria, China, and India. Students can explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, the process of introducing new measurement approaches, alignment of activities with strategic goals, and issues in leading change both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

leadership—setting the rules within which an organization pursues a moral task—and it flows from being comfortable enough with ambiguity to focus on the process of work as well as its goal. Leaders also... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

developers are very pragmatic and focused on solving problems. Scientists are focused on problems too, but their priority is often publication and that can sometimes come in the way of openness and sharing. The ideals of science are, of course, openness, sharing, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

realized bond risk and bond return volatility. The yield spread appears to proxy for business conditions, while the short rate appears to proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between real cash View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

lack of personal opportunity and a lack of creativity provide a difficult context in which to start companies. In Francophone countries like Cote d’Ivoire, risk aversion also runs deep. De-risking the startup process may be important for... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

framework. The unified funnel communicates the idea that not only should the marketing funnel and the sales funnel be linked "vertically"—in the sense that Marketing's leads should flow seamlessly into Sales' funnel—but they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Lords of Strategy

ineluctable advance . In a speech from late in the 1990s, George Stalk Jr. MBA ’78, arguably BCG’s leading thinker on strategy over the prior fifteen years — and certainly the firm’s most prolific — neatly summed up the main themes of the era, in the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Rescue & Recovery

farmers sell raisins on the international market with a coveted Fairtrade label. This was a decade ago, but even then the task looked impossible. The certification process required an in-person audit to ensure producers were meeting the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent decades have precipitated an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

and outflows. As a result, stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities. Our results provide evidence of meaningful fire sale... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

Featured Exercise Conduct ratio analysis to compare performance across multiple companies 6-8 hrs Module 3 Introduction to Forecasting Formulate the forecasting process into distinct steps and forecast corporate performance from condensed... View Details