Filter Results:
(796)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (796)
- Faculty Publications (93)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (796)
- Faculty Publications (93)
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
has launched a COVID webinar series for companies on topics including “Building a Resilient Supply Chain” and “Managing an Effective Work Force during a Crisis.” Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited, where Ndidi Nwuneli is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
contract with California utilities for $0.14–$0.16 per kWh. As the technology matures and scales, that should fall below $0.10. And these plants can be realized in three to five years, compared with ten or more for nuclear plants. As the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Then judgment—a fusion of thinking, feelings, experience, imagination, and character—becomes critical. The author offers five practical questions to improve your odds of making sound judgments: What are the net, net consequences of all my... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
five Is. What are your reflections on your progress on each one? Let’s start with Innovation. We launched some significant innovations, including the FIELD program and HBS Online. Other lesser-known innovations worth mentioning include... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Within—Almost 90% of McDonald’s in the US are owned and operated by franchisees. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) runs the rest. Hear from Kristy Cunningham on the all-day breakfast initiative on the Skydeck podcast Five days after the call,... View Details
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
called the case system. 1922 Universities Adopt HBS Casebooks One or more of the first five HBS casebooks have been adopted at 93 universities, signaling increasing popularity of discussion-based teaching in business education. 1922 Case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
markets. That said, “marketplace” models only support so many players, so start in the two to three markets that represent a disproportionate amount of the demand. —Andrew Goldberg (MBA 1999) Creep, crawl, walk, run. Do it in the top five... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined forces at ICV Partners, a... View Details
- 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
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
HBS,” McNamara explains. “It was a terrible wrench for Margy and me because our years at Harvard were certainly among the happiest of our lives.” (Eventually, “through force of will,” McNamara says, Margy recovered, raised three children,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of the "long tail" principle argue that lower transaction and search costs will lead to a shift away from hit content and cause more fragmentation in consumers' choices. This perspective is in sharp contrast with the more established theory of superstars,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Much of the movement's inspiration can be traced back to education reformers like free-market economist Milton Friedman, who argued as early as 1955 that education aid should follow students to the school of their choice, thereby forcing... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Pizza for two straight years, won regional awards in the International Pizza Challenge, and earlier this year was deemed by the New York Times to serve a world-class slice of New York Style Pizza. Crawford is a former Air Force fighter... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
"crammed" the new business into the old business model and sales processes. For example, most newspapers tried to force their online sites to make money by selling the same types of advertising to their traditional print... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
argued the merits of each, we inquired into which happiness people say they want. In five studies (N = 3351), we asked people to choose between experienced happiness and remembered happiness—for shorter time frames (e.g., one’s next hour)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne