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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
capital costs, have very low operating (marginal) costs, and have few investment opportunities. As a result, projects generate large amounts of "free cash flow" (cash flow in excess of what is needed to finance all positive NPV investment opportunities).... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
calculated risks, minimize failure, and much more. Entrepreneurial Impact: The Force That Moves the World (Impacto emprendedor: La fuerza que mueve al mundo) by Jorge Herrera Ronco (MBA 1994) (Ediciones UC) Thanks to this book’s solid... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
in productivity in the U.S. in recent years. In fact, a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute has found that five of the top seven industries that have led productivity growth in the period of 2000 to 2003 are service industries... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and forcing it into bankruptcy. Other unions at the airline decided not to support the strike in view of past differences they had had with the mechanics. As a result, the airline continued to operate with replacement labor. It is perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
used to create the food that ends up in our stomachs (land, water, energy, etc.) is wasted.” Sani’s enthusiasm for Mori grew after speaking with Belsito when he learned more about the company’s focus on integrating within supply chains to add value rather than View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
study period were invited to an awards ceremony, along with five guests of their choosing, where they would be congratulated by a well-known Zambian health official. On average, the nonfinancial reward group sold twice as many condoms as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
a whole (albeit formless) entity. 3 Previous efforts to develop frameworks for "nonmarket strategy" have explicitly dealt with government influences on business. 4 The nonmarket approach looks at the impact of government separately from the impact of market... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
itself, but it actually forces you to think about building companies not in an institutionalized manner. It asks you to essentially create an outcome in a matter of five to ten years and kind of go away to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
A Conversation with Nancy Koehn Koehn Photo Courtesy Nancy Koehn Editor’s Note: The Story of American Business itself has a back story. Explains Jacqueline Murphy of Harvard Business Press: “About five years ago, after we held discussions... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
policies around rent control and restrictions on building heights put in place to preserve San Francisco's character have also limited the amount of housing, forcing up rents and speeding dislocation. Last year, officials responded with a... View Details
- 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 that state) are any indication,... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
enable you to understand power across contexts and levels of analysis, the course will help you develop your own sources of power and your repertoire of influence styles before focusing on what it takes to become more effective change makers. The course will be... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen's 1986 departure). Andresen took time out to attend Harvard's Advanced Management Program in 1974 in order "to test my standards of management," he says. "I had been working nonstop for over five years and felt the need to take... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
to solve the problem - is an organization in trouble. Are there other lessons? We've awakened to the fact that in software, total quality counts. In the 1960s, we assumed that the replacement cycle would automatically filter out software glitches. That is, every View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
happiness-if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Money-Science-Smarter-Spending/dp/1451665067/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0/181-7319636-0911428 The Role of Organizational Scope and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
and—inspired by a guest speaker, an electrical engineer who said he made $300 a week, a distant dream to a boy in his circumstances—an electrical engineer. But given his family's financial limitations, college was not a realistic hope for this youngest of View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard schools attended the Kumbh Mela to learn from the phenomenon. The festival was a planning, organizational, financial, and spiritual success-in stark contrast to the understood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C., by Assistant Secretary of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
focuses on a disguised application from a KIPP school that plans to grow from one to five locations in five years. Readers are challenged to green-light the application, or not. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller