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- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
outcomes. (2) Selecting or developing leaders for the future requires a forward-looking strategy and culture. (3) In a merger, designing a new culture on the basis of complementary strengths can speed up integration and create more value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
civil works. In this way, they have Manila Water as a captured market, and more importantly, they can develop their capabilities as an organization and sell their products to other clients as well. Our livelihood program has already given... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
Future (Currency/Doubleday), focuses on share of customer: Using the insights about what makes your most loyal customers different to maximize the value of those relationships. By the end of the decade, many marketers had come to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
continuous moments of joy was the best way of retaining it. Thus, the most captivating ads in the experiment were those that began by surprising the viewer and then went on to make the viewer smile. But successfully capturing and keeping... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
a single quarter last year, invested $3.8 billion in Internet start-ups. But, is the get-big-fast strategy right for everyone? To what extent is its payoff dependent on speculative excess in the capital markets? These probing questions View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
with the D2C option, mainly because speed is of the essence to establish a market position before someone else does. I would consider partnering with real estate companies but worry that they’d want to capture some of the View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
could still purchase an entire album. But consumers found more value in cherry-picking favorite tunes for much less money. Fans of Strawberry Alarm Clock, for instance, could buy the 1960s hit Incense and Peppermint while easily avoiding... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details
- Web
Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success. 8 weeks 5-6 hours per week 6 modules... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
maximizers as we are negotiating, creating the most value we can, and then when it's all over flip on the satisficer button and bliss out," says Wheeler. "But that's not easy." This is where the second part of the app comes in. Once the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear, their benefits are not easily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Respond: Capturing the Value of Network Era Technologies, a book that documents the technology-aided shift many companies are currently undertaking from a "make-and-sell" mentality to one in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
broad social transformation. Second, it is not always easy to see this idea of “social return,” nor is it easy to quantify. The risks of “social business” are high, and likely require some economic cost to capture the View Details
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
business effectively. Identifies a number of legal tools legally astute managers can use during different phases of business development to create and capture value and manage risk. This is a rewritten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
organizations is also driving the trend, generating “digital trace data”—records of employee behavior captured on devices central to performing jobs everywhere, from the office to the factory floor to the job or delivery site. Spurred by... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Fall 2014 | Focus: International Development and Environmental Impact Team: Efosa Ojomo Description: Wecyclers is powering social change using the environment by helping people in low-income communities capture View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
following: Business’s role as a key player in multi-stakeholder collaboration on adaptation; the explicit ways in which public health and equity must be taken into account in decisions around adaptation; how we place value on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
accomplishments — both academic and extracurricular — of the Class of 2002, what you'll see is a triumph of spirit. This trying time for the country was aggravated by some dismaying developments in the business world. Dismay in no way View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
two-week spectacle that captures the attention of people around the world. With the Games of the XXX Olympiad off and running in London, three Harvard Business School professors offer their insights. Stephen A. Greyser, Richard P. Chapman... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and business-government literatures. Instead, regulatory decisions are indirectly shaped via third-party actors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne