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  • 29 Aug 2011
  • News

Google gets a wake-up call on questionable ads

    David B. Yoffie

    Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games
    • August 2001 (Revised May 2004)
    • Case

    Maria Hernandez & Associates

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    This case presents the situation of an unemployed web page designer who starts a new consulting firm with personal savings and a family loan. Two months later, she is to report on operations to her father, using financial reports she must design and construct. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Accounting; Business Startups; Design; Borrowing and Debt; Service Industry
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    • 17 May 2012
    • News

    How To Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone

    • 2022
    • Article

    Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

    By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank
    Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details
    Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry
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    • September 2010
    • Supplement

    Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (CW)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
    Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Decisions; Microeconomics; Finance; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Market Transactions; Partners and Partnerships; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Consulting Industry; New Jersey
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    • October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Digitas (A): Strategic Interactive Group

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, David Lane and Courtenay Sprague
    Kathy Biro, president of Digitas, an e-strategy consulting firm, has successfully grown out of the company's roots in the strategic interactive group. Her challenges now include managing the integration of the SIG with Digitas's other component, direct marketing firm... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Integration; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Organizational Design; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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    • 01 Jan 2002
    • News

    • Teaching Interest

    MBA Elective Curriculum: Mastering Strategy Execution

    By: Robert Simons

    This course teaches future general managers, entrepreneurs, and consultants how to execute strategy and deliver results. Using readings, exercises, and case studies in industries as diverse as healthcare space exploration, and software development, you will learn to... View Details

    • 06 Sep 2019
    • Video

    Mo Ibrahim

    Mo Ibrahim, the founder of the African telecommunications company Celtel and later a major corporate philanthropist, describes his decisions to leave the large telecommunications company British Telecom and... View Details

      Ananth Raman

      Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence—supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations—to MBA students... View Details

      Keywords: apparel; retailing; software
      • 29 Oct 2019
      • Video

      Leonor Melo de Velasco

      Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how her micro-finance NGO grew by building strong relations with its clients, and how it learned new... View Details
      • Career Coach

      Nathan Lasche

      Nathan interned in Product Management at Amazon and was the Co-President of the HBS TechMedia club. Prior to HBS, he spent two years in Uganda starting the Clinton Foundation HIV / AIDS Initiative’s country office, worked in feature film development at Sony Studios,... View Details
      • 18 Aug 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980

      Keywords: by Kevin Koh, Shivaram Rajgopal & Suraj Srinivasan; Accounting

        Jeffrey J. Bussgang

        General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

        Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

        Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

        • March 18, 2014
        • Article

        The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

        By: Boris Groysberg
        What executive skills are most prized by companies today? How has that array of skills changed in the last decade, and how is it likely to change in the next ten years? To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm.... View Details
        Keywords: Executive Ability; Management Skills; Leadership; Competency and Skills
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        • 24 May 2012
        • News

        Businesses need an image repair

        • September 1998 (Revised September 2001)
        • Case

        IBM's Reinventing Education (A)

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
        Describes IBM's national innovation strategy to transform K-12 public education through new solutions developed by IBM engineers and consultants using information technology. Examples are: data warehousing in Broward County, FL schools, tracking software for the... View Details
        Keywords: Social Enterprise; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology; Education; Business and Community Relations; Information Technology Industry; Education Industry; San Jose; Philadelphia; Ohio; Florida
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        • 24 Jun 2020
        • News

        Why Are Black and Latino People Still Kept Out of the Tech Industry?

        • 24 Sep 2018
        • Blog Post

        Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

        After spending three years working in consulting before coming to HBS, I knew I wanted to use my summer to expand beyond the world of Board of Directors advisory and multi-national company strategic planning and try something completely... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship