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- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Education.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Bill Kirby is a historian who examines contemporary China's business, economic and political development in an international context. In addition to many books and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on performance pay before the U.S. Senate and served as a consultant to many international companies. The issue of to what extent the financial crisis was driven by misaligned 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention. FIFA, the governing body of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment models, which View Details
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
sharpen your judgment and decision-making skills and help you act and lead with integrity and good conscience.” Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Aug 13 6 Weeks $1,850 + applicable international... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
herself in awe of their grace under such trying circumstances. “I would go to their homes—huts called bhunga—to interview them and they would offer me a cup of chai. I’d say, ‘No, thank you’ and they would go pay for a bottle of Coke. I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
doctorate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and on a dissertation entitled "On the Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial and Marine Environments." Dawe was the co-president of the HBS Energy Club and had spent his... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
the time, I'd never heard of a physician doing such a thing," Slavin recalls. Slavin's specialty is adult internal medicine, which keeps him involved in everything "except children and surgery." It's deeply satisfying work, he says, to... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Western institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Maurer contends. In the case of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, the World Bank is acting as a watchdog to oversee the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
environment," he writes. "I have been more concerned in this book with a manager's responsibilities to shareholders and to his or her own intellectual integrity." Reinhardt asserts that discussions of business and the environment have become bogged down in a sterile... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
concern for a wide range of constituencies—has been pushed aside and has been replaced by a technical definition of what is acceptable. So there's also no question that we need to strengthen the internal systems that guide conduct within... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
call centers, with their attendant voice response units (VRUs—also known as automated voice response systems), need not be so inefficient. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology and View Details
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
front of the pump instead of paying in slower, more conventional ways, did 2.7 million people sign up for the program and increase their loyalty to Mobil by one extra visit to the pump per month? The explanation was the saving of one to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
to gain much traction and proposes measures that will better protect the rights of property owners. We asked Wells to discuss his research and experiences representing host governments in such negotiations, and what international managers... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
Kerry blasted "Benedict Arnold CEOs" for using tax advantages to do exactly that. We asked Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai, an expert on international and corporate finance, to guide us through the complicated U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne