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- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
What's happening in another part of the world that you could adopt and adapt in your environment? These disruptive innovations are not just novel inventions. Successful innovators take ideas and turn them into opportunities by adding a... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
launching Global Business and Leadership Principles, and reached a total of more than 16,000 asynchronous participants across the portfolio during the year. Additionally, the group added a second cohort to its Harvard Business Analytics... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
disagrees. Key concepts include: Most B2B marketers cannot economically address thousands of small businesses using the traditional direct sales force. If left unattended, individual managers will each do their own ad hoc marketing. B2B... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
Thompson of the University of Wisconsin challenge this notion and develop a new model. Holt and Thompson posit that “the pinnacle of American manhood is the man–of–action hero who deftly combines emphasis added the strengths of... View Details
- Profile
Monne Williams
prospecting, improving their sales process, adding value to their contractual relationships. It wasn't until Rwanda that I realized how much I had learned; how much my thinking in January had changed from my... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
stock holders’ but seldom ‘it’s all about the employees and customers.’” Bruce Lloyd argued that there has been too much emphasis on power and too little on values in leadership literature and training. “Leadership is much more concerned... View Details
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Prita Kumar
added another $25,000. With a total of $55,000 in grants acting as seed funding, Kumar leaped forward with Booya Fitness. One of the harsh realities has been that post business school fundraising has been a significant challenge.... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
that a monopolistic market maker is able to extract from impatient investors. The mechanism for trade is a limit order, and immediacy is supplied when the limit order is executed. We show that limit orders are American options and their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found.... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
the tax holiday. The results indicate that U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and were reasonably well governed. The fungibility of money appears to have undermined the effectiveness of the regulations. Working PapersCompeting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Aspen Fellowship: MBA Student Launches Program Supporting Black Undergrads
will reduce miscommunication or appearing to not care. Initiative and an opinion Find ways to perform a task before your boss asks for it. As you sharpen this skill, you will even begin forming an opinion and helping add value in ways... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
increased 30% year over year. “Partly, that’s a result of feelings of oil insecurity and supply reductions,” Erika said. “But Tesla can’t fill all of the orders it’s receiving because of the high demand.” She applauded the choices and View Details
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
how to formulate a customer value proposition, determine product-market fit, and distinguish between marketing- and sales-led organizations. Highlights Nicole Clay, Co-Founder and CMO, Hue Show Hide Details Concepts Welcome to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old due to its one-child policy.” George View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it delivers on its View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as generous family leave policies,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
maintain competitiveness in a situation where China essentially says: ‘First we will buy from you, but then we will do it ourselves.’ It gets very complicated.” Still, Shih added that the U.S. aerospace industry is strong enough to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley