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- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
and BEI faculty cochair Forest L. Reinhardt. "I don't think this ought to be treated as a religious question. I think it's better seen as a classic managerial question about decision-making under uncertainty." Indeed, nothing is certain, but scientific predictions are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
and Pandora. We will try to tease apart the business model and financing choices that contributed to the outcome. In most cases, the pivotal choices these founders made have their roots in “people decisions.” Yet most founders (and VCs) View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
the long-term vision and short-term realities of the need for performance. Mike Flanagan asked, "Why have goals that are strived for in 10 years when the CEO and others will be gone?" And Kathryn Alexander asked why, in those... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
The Business of Access
nonprofits and social services organizations whose staffs had the skills to help, and plotted a different way to give back. “My thinking was, if I were to help people here in California,” she recalls, “that would pay it forward for... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
or so, I've noticed that the ratio of the average Fortune 500 CEO's pay to that of the first level of employees has gone from about 150:1 to more than 300:1. As an ordinary employee, my view would be that if... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and Invest in Others (spending... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure has grown up around executive... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
James A. Henderson (MBA '63) is chairman and CEO of Indiana-based Cummins Engine Company, one of America's most respected industrial corporations. Prior to joining Cummins, where he has worked for more than thirty years, Henderson, who... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
within stores. Align incentives within your organization and in the supply chain. Use technology judiciously and pay attention to emerging new technologies, whose value might still not be apparent. Explain the changes you are making to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
states count on to pay for those projects. "We have tended to live with a lot of short-term bills. You want long-term bills," Gallagher said. General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt (HBS... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
uncover and release a company’s latent potential, defying traditions if necessary.” Such examples include the appointments of Marissa Mayer, just 37 when Yahoo! named her CEO in 2012 (she had been a vice president at Google), and Daniel... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
first-generation college student, Katie Kelsall in MBA Financial Aid, understands firsthand what it’s like to have to figure out how to pay for school. Education is an investment, and Katie is here to tell you that it IS possible to... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
leadership, alumni from Procter & Gamble's online operation, carefully laid out plans in which they estimated they would need a next round financing of $30 million. The representative from Flatiron indicated his partners would like to see a proposal. When our View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
you need to anticipate competitors' moves and customers' needs and make long-term investments that will not necessarily pay off in a matter of weeks. You don't do frontal assaults against armies that are ten times your size. Those are... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
run-ups on venture-capital foundings between 1984 and 2011. The results pinpoint the aspects of the social environment that most heavily influence entrepreneurial activity and the dynamics of organizational sectors. How Should We Pay for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
founders serve as a director with a non-founder CEO (founder-director firms). We find that founder-director firms offer a different mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
"consumers now understand that business needs their personal data and will pay for it. We see ClickRebates as the leader in this emerging field of consumer-to-business e-commerce; we've even trademarked a term for it: C2B." Yeh plans to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons