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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
test protocol (who gets tested, how often, etc.), to physician ordering/sample taking, to executing the COVID test, to support for contact tracing. They also have teams of scientists working on technologies that could reduce testing costs... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
motivate employees to learn, may only yield performance benefits among those who are already highly engaged and motivated. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55888 In Search of Organizational Alignment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time, the focal firm can drive the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
a couple of young MBAs. But fate works in funny ways. For one, it brought Matthew Moore and Jessica Le Roy Moore (both MBA 2007) together in Section I. The two became friends and started dating near the end of their first year at HBS, but weren't quite ready to... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter 11 process has generated both costs and benefits for the company. Its future profitability, and the value of the reorganized business, are both highly uncertain. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within companies, channels often are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
will learn about the challenges of entrepreneurship and undertaking new projects. Herrera Ronco teaches that entrepreneurship is a path to plenty and offers a real possibility to build a more prosperous and humane society. A Geophysicist’s Memoir: View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
costs and benefits of work-life choices, and protect you from much grief. Don’t confuse urgency with importance. A ringing phone seems urgent, but the call may be totally unimportant. How do I choose what to do when facing scores of time... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
carriers that do that best will have a tremendous competitive advantage." Liz Claiborne, too, is applying technology "aggressively," Paul Charron says, to reduce the cost of operations, the time-to-market with new fashion products, and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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of AI could destroy human society. Others have said that it could create a global utopia by solving intractable problems like climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor... View Details