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- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
June. With roots dating back to 1717, 40,000 members, and approximately $9.1 billion of assets under management, it is one of the oldest benefit plans in the United States, providing ministers and teachers of the church with pensions,... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407071 Free the Grapes—Direct-to-Consumer Shipping in the Wine Industry Harvard Business School Case 707-472 While wine tourism in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
with the orchestra. The post was followed by a series of conducting positions in the United States (Alabama’s Huntsville Symphony and the Houston Symphony) and Mexico (the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa)... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
chronic work stress, while only 36 percent reported their employers provided adequate support to manage it. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, some 6.7 percent of American adults experience "major depressive disorder; antidepressants are the most... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
United States required a much stronger domestic intelligence service, and Mueller believed that that service should reside within the FBI. Critics, however, called for the Bureau to narrow its scope, focus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
connection between the labor and civil rights movements. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-422 Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016 By many measures the largest health-club chain in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
At GE, I wish I’d sold our insurance business the day I got here. On the personal side, I wish I’d had the chance to work and live with my wife and daughter outside the United States. What is most often forgotten in the everyday busyness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
translator simply puts his head in his hands and swears as he struggles to keep up with the convoluted account. Throughout the day we visit other Oaxacans in their homes and listen to their stories. Each demonstrates the sharp contrast between housing markets in the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration; and Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Princeton University Press There has never been a greater need for... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
toothpaste brand in the United States. During the interwar years, however, the brand suffered a precipitate decline and fell into oblivion. This article explores the rise and fall of the Pebeco brand. It shows the challenges faced by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015
in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
you over and right away you will be a star working for us." (Indeed, at the end of the 2009 season, Epstein had publicly stated that his team was "kind of in a bridge period." This was upsetting to Bostonians; their team... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time."... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
spending in the United States in 2015, up from $26 billion in 2010. Advertisers are steering the biggest share of their digital ad dollars—about half of all online ad expenditures—toward paid search.... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
on their pollution) [16] While the U.S. federal government has not yet caught up with shifts in public opinion, many other countries and some U.S. states and cities are advancing policies to achieve net zero emissions of GHG emissions by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of private-equity deals is slowly increasing, but they are still at quite a low level by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education by Michel Anteby (University of Chicago Press) How does HBS try to ensure that its faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Associate Professor Anteby finds that silence plays a... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
United States of America.” This reality must be spoken, acknowledged, and considered to understand how mobilized Black protestors, responding to public killings of their community members, can be met with... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
learned of another alleged relationship between Easterbrook and an employee. This time, its investigation turned up three additional workplace relationships and sexually explicit photos and videos. Plus, the board discovered that Easterbrook had granted restricted... View Details