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Risk and the Value Line Contest

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Value

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

that’s what I wanted to pursue for the summer,” said Kaelyn, who accepted an internship in strategic finance at Nature’s Fynd, a startup that created a new alternative protein. Adding value as a career switcher The MS/MBA curriculum... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

April 2002
Case

Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package (Abridged)

By: Peter Tufano

Details a thinly disguised situation facing a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a prospective employer to place a dollar value on a grant of stock options. There are two objectives: 1) Serves as an introduction to option valuation, in which students have an... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Stock Options; Compensation and Benefits

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September 2009 (Revised December 2011)
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IBM Values and Corporate Citizenship (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird

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Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Transformation; Fairness; Innovation and Invention; Value; Global Range; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry

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1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
Conference Presentation

The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction

By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing

Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Production; Resource Allocation; Groups and Teams; Adaptation; Sports

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March 2011
Case

Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers

PepsiCo developed a new metric that better measured the value added by Pepsi products than did gross margin, the traditional metric used by retailers to determine shelf space and promotional activity. The new metric, cash flow productivity, captured the value of... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Cash Flow; Measurement and Metrics; Distribution; Performance Productivity; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry

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01 Dec 2000
News

Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

Good people are essential for success. Keep the product and the process simple. Deliver the most reliable service at the lowest cost. Invest the time to connect with employees and customers. These are the basic tenets fueling the phenomenal success of Southwest... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation

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The Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain... View Details

spring 1999
Article

Improved Techniques for Valuing Large-Scale Projects

By: B. C. Esty

Keywords: Valuation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects

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2021
Working Paper

The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition

By: Marco Iansiti

Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to... View Details

Keywords: Online Platforms; Data Network Effects; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Competition; Digital Platforms

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September 1989
Background Note

Performance Curves: Costs, Prices, and Value

By: Robert J. Dolan and Benson P. Shapiro

Explains the concept of a family of performance curves. The most well known is the price/performance curve relating the prices of items in a product line to their performance. Also discusses the cost/performance curve and its impact on product positioning, product line... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Price; Product Positioning; Performance; Competition; Value

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20 May 2025
Blog Post

How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value

oversight.” Whether you’re pursuing a niche industry, a brand you admire, or simply trying something new, with a proactive approach and a clear value proposition, you can create your own opportunities. View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

must be carefully utilized in light of its far-reaching implications for a company's many stakeholders. "Once considered a rare event, restructuring has become an important part of everyday business practice," Gilson asserts in Creating View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2014
Other Teaching and Training Material

Strategy Reading: Setting Aspirations—Mission, Vision, and Values

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

"Setting Aspirations-Mission, Vision, and Values" introduces students to the concepts of organizational aspirations and the link to strategy. The Reading presents a framework for analyzing aspirations, discusses the differences between mission and vision, and uses... View Details

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01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

value of “likes.” The evidence often cited to support that is to look at people who have liked Starbucks, for example, compared with people who have not. The assumption is that people who have liked Starbucks spend more money there. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

should weigh the decision to change jobs carefully, because their major value is in the company they currently work for and the teammates they work with. If they do change jobs, they should make sure that the new employer is invested in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

18 Sep 2015
News

Better Value in Health Care Requires Focusing on Outcomes

September 2024
Exercise

Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-Duplicating Customer Data

By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan

This exercise provides an opportunity for students to gain hands on experience with assessing the value of unifying various customer databases that a firm may have (e.g., across the different brands it markets) and of properly identifying customers to avoid duplication... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value

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