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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
third-party retail sales might cannibalize some of Amazon's own revenues in certain product categories. Then Amazon went a step further with its Prime membership announcement, offering participants free shipping for all transactions for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
regulated industry containing a number of distinct verticals, from capital markets to asset management and lending. Few cities on earth can boast a talent pool with quite as much relevant domain expertise as New York, which is exactly why Gotsch identified it as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Business of Fashion, understands the pull of Amazon’s wildly popular Prime subscription service and the fact that it’s the go-to site for most products. “If someone has a very high... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
CURRENT STUDENTS "Follow your passion. Don't wait until you are 50 to find meaning and purpose in your life. Focus on building your life and the resume will follow. Choose faith, not fear, as your prime motivator. Trust people, trust the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
the group companies. During that time, he also earned a law degree in Bombay (now Mumbai). By the 1990s, Bajaj Auto faced problems worthy of an HBS case study. A combination of the company's ramped-up production and the entry-thanks to some early liberalization... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
enters an auto showroom and meets an aggressive salesperson and sees a display of trophies and hints of a special offer. “These objects may trigger vague images of predator and prey, which in turn may prime the innate ‘fight or flight’... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
participants along the way to the end customer understand, perhaps for the first time, the levers that motivate their partners up and down the line. As a result, all participants are better primed for the give-and-take required to create... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
manufacturing plants in Nigeria, and runs a 1,000+ plus truck logistics company. This case gives an overview of how Tolaram, a company that is a prime example of market-creating innovation in a developing economy, built Indomie noodles... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting for delayed flights in crowded... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
faculty (HBS’s George Serafeim, Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Joe Aldy, and the College’s Dan Schrag), as well as industry professionals and experts (including Rodi Guidero of Breakthrough Energy, Spencer Glendon from Probable Futures, and Sarah Kearney from View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting equity with your cofounders is... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
that casks of whiskey and farm animals were "branded"—or seared—with some kind of mark to identify ownership, she pointed out, the word didn't take on its current commercial connotation until the 18th century and the First Industrial Revolution. The View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
out of Liswood's own initiative - a 1993 journey around the world in which she documented, in video and book form, discussions with fifteen of these presidents and prime ministers. Her goal: to see a woman in the Oval Office. What... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
& Asset Stewardship team where she spent summer 2020 as an intern and Prime Coalition, a catalytic climate VC where she interned for six months during EC year. “It’s a lot of work reaching out to your existing network and alumni and... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead. Prime Minister Naoko Kan's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Building on previous theories of how social activists inspire field-level change, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to prime firms to cooperate with shareholder requests for information disclosure.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term responses to a global recession... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace