Bottom Of The Pyramid - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

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1.7 Grading - MBA

class 2/3 On the borderline between quartile 2 and quartile 3 3 Between the midpoint and the bottom quarter of... View Details

02 Sep 2015
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What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

certainly strong opinions about such policies. As TNoble101 said, “a low retention, ‘chew ‘em up and spit ‘em out’ strategy highlights the negative side of unbridled capitalism against which View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

10 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

as under-tipping or be perceived as cheap. It makes us feel guilty if we go in at the bottom of the range, particularly if we believe everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

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Informing Brand Marketing Practice

Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details

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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Finance courses and second-year elective courses on Business at the Base of the Pyramid and impact investing. He also teaches in various... View Details

2011
Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

in the environment. Alan has brought a touch of magic to the big screen and record-breaking numbers to the bottom... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Climate Change 16 DEC 2019 | Climate Rising How will a warming climate affect a company’s bottom line? How can groups like Ceres help persuade shareholders, CEOs, and their boards to use their influence to address climate change? Mindy... View Details

31 Oct 2019
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Dato' Sri Tahir

Dato' Sri Tahir, founder of a large financial services group in Indonesia, describes the need to attend to all potential consumers.

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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

projects; integrate social enterprise topics through required papers or projects in other courses; and cross-register for courses in other select graduate programs. 2024-25 Elective Courses (pdf) Social Enterprise Courses, 2024-25 Business at View Details

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

Source: rawpixel Many jobs involve completing a series of sequential, independent, prearranged tasks. Physicians see patients; teachers grade papers; insurance agents process stacks of claims. In View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

Even the most loyal, long-serving employee may consider resigning from a job once or twice in a career in order to reboot or get ahead. Large organizations can offer more lateral opportunities to further your development, but View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

13 Feb 2020
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Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

New Video: Books@Baker Virtual Session with Michael Beer After prospering for more than 100 years, General Electric found itself in trouble in the early 2000s, facing the double wallop View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

For generations, American workers have dreamed of striking out on their own, starting their own business, being their own boss—and ideally making a lot of money in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

and political issues,” says Nien-hê Hsieh, the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who coauthored the case. Staking out a clear social position can... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

introduced Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to health care. In this unique approach, costing is approached from the bottom up looking at exactly what happens to a patient in View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

candidates and asked them to rank their top three choices. Some of these sets employed standard algorithms, which generally included only three women who ranked near the bottom... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

there was more than a full point between the top quartile (which averaged 3.72) and the bottom (which averaged 2.88). “Even the United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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