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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
critical performance variables and design management control systems to track progress in achieving key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify various types of internal and external risks and implement internal... View Details
- Career Coach
Nicole Ledoux
Nicole (HBS '08) is Co-founder/CEO of 88 Acres, a Consumer Products company in the Natural Food space. She has experience in brand building, business development, new product launch, fundraising & financing as well as manufacturing.... View Details
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 624-036, August 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
that information disclosure is particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened (and thus are shamed) and face lower-cost opportunities to respond (and thus are particularly able). Testing this by examining how firms respond when their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
McGinn believe that negotiation skills are crucial to closing the gender gap in leadership. Riley Bowles, who earned her doctoral degree from Harvard Business School, is an assistant professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
preclude considering the option of knocking down and starting all over again if that's what is best for the business ... (but) Kaplan & Foster [authors of the book] seem to be recommending destruction for its own sake." Readers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using... View Details
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
As the founder or CEO, Craig (HBS ’90, USNA ’83) has grown and sold four technology-enabled companies to leading public companies. He attributes most of his success (the rest is luck) to building and leading high performing teams who can... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
tasks that are relevant to Recruit. For example, an HR manager who had wanted to be a rock star worked on creating large splashy events for Recruit’s annual company gathering and played in the company’s band. "Managers are evaluated on... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
STRATEGIC ADVICE: HBS professor Michael Porter took a question before his presentation. What happens when you bring over 450 CEOs and presidents of New York City’s leading nonprofits together for a daylong educational summit? Answer: a lot of View Details
- Fast Answer
Exchange traded funds
Where can I find information on exchange traded funds or ETFs? News and Journals ABI/ProQuest or Business Source Complete To find academic and news articles comparing exchange traded funds to index mutual funds use this search strategy:... View Details
- June 2011
- Article
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Effectiveness; Code Law; Taxation; Cost; Capital; Financial Strategy; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." Journal of Finance 66, no. 3 (June 2011): 753–787.
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
that Curiel performed during his second year at HBS and now incorporates The RFDF Stock Exchange, an online platform that offers migrant students scholarships for college, online courses in business and... View Details
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK
By: Fabrizio Ferri and David Maber
In this study, we examine the effect on CEO pay of new legislation introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) at the end of 2002 that requires publicly-traded firms to submit an executive remuneration report to a non-binding shareholder vote ("say on pay") at the annual... View Details
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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
Care contains the analytic framework for students who want to innovate the sector. It is entirely taught through current field-based case studies of health care innovations. Innovating in Health Care (Q1) is the prerequisite for the next two field courses, Field... View Details
- Career Coach
Lindsay Muller
business and gained experience leading teams, managing a P&L, and scaling a start-up. Prior to that, she worked at a Series A kidney dialysis start-up in Tanzania. Lindsay also has a background in social enterprise and international... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
quotas Instead, I favor an individualized approach where the organization names diversity and inclusion as values and then individuals are evaluated based on their words and behavior rather than on numbers.” Frances Pratt suggested that,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Matt Segneri
applicants — who were effectively applying business principles to pressing public issues," Matt says. Worthy of applause The advice of Monitor colleagues, and a growing interest in cross-sector issues, led Matt to HBS. His first... View Details