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- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
acquisitions, partnerships, new product launches, or international expansion in ways you might not have had the time and space to think through. 3. Pay down your organizational debt Every fast-growing... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In light of these puzzles, we read our findings as suggestive but tentative. Ethnic Scientific Communities and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
being paranoid. But the costs of deception are high. It pays to develop a close team of colleagues you absolutely trust and would go to war with. A complicated stew in our culture is creating a deception epidemic. Social media, for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
senior leaders continued to revise the compensation formula based on feedback both internally and from the public. Particularly, they hoped to strengthen the link between pay and performance, which in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
An Educated Investment Safeena Husain was the first in her family to attend university overseas—so being admitted to the London School of Economics was cause for celebration, even if her father had to sell his business to pay for tuition... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
"When thinking about which customers to pay attention to, the wisest choice is to cast the net broadly. They are all important." According to these authors, everyone is a customer of someone else. There are View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
terms of the proposed JV, Merck would pay Bayer $1 billion upfront for access to their pipeline of drugs and could pay up to another $1.2 billion in contingent payments based on actual sales. Alternatively,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
has caused them to erupt. Some people have clearly decided that 9/11 gives them the right to persecute Muslims. And as a result, we are all collectively paying for the sins of terrorists — a radical, crazy few who just happen to share the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
differentiate the Confi program—most other prevention programs are designed to meet compliance standards, not foster conversation—but the marketplace is dominated by a few big companies. Schools pay about $1 per student each year for such... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
both host and home governments, and the international legal framework. The second was the market and resources of the host country. The third factor was competition from local firms. The impact of these factors on corporate strategies is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
course will equip you with the tools to formulate, communicate, and drive strategies based on financial factors." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Aug 20 8 Weeks $1,850 + applicable View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
during the downturn, he kept the mills running full steam and persuaded workers to accept a 50 percent pay cut. Salesmen sold large quantities of watches cheaply, often at auction, to popularize the product with a public accustomed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
(above: photo by Mary Rajkumar/Mint/Getty Images) When the New York Times introduced its paywall in 2011, few people believed that readers would pay for the news online. Today, the newspaper has more than 1.6 million digital subscribers—a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
SHENKAR by Constantine von Hoffman For many of us, water isn't something we give much thought to. Why should we? Turn on the tap and it's there. If you have to pay your town or city for water, chances are you don't View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
leaders have worked to create a democratic society and revamp the economy, improve education, and create jobs. As the country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela has inspired the nation and emerged as an international... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons