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Program Policies - HBS Online
Exceptions Participant Discount Learning Requirements Course Platform Certificate Programs Participants are expected to fully complete all work on the course platform in English in a thoughtful and timely manner. This means completing... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
completely different operating system thrust upon them from on high. "People don't like it when they're forced to change their plans, rather than determine the changes they want to make," Kanter says. 2. Excess Uncertainty—"People will often View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions related to the volume of media... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
govern partnering relationships through fixed-price contracts, whereas in others, firms use more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts. How do these choices affect the costs and benefits that arise from greater levels... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer their View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
time to run young biotech firms; and so preferred people coming out of Baxter to those who had worked at Abbott or other firms, such as J&J and Merck. This preference is... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
turn-around artist who had saved many companies from financial distress, Guvenal started by learning as much as he could about Turkasset’s debtors. He and his team discovered many of them were small-business owners suffering from poor credit or difficulties in managing... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Though the Internet has woven itself into most aspects of life, few fields have adopted it more actively, and at times controversially, than health care. What new business models in health care, based on the Internet, are rising to the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
particular social or work settings." While agreeing in general, Ann Parker voiced a note of caution: "All leaders at times mask their feelings, especially fear or uncertainty. The danger is that for some they begin to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
counterintuitive to us that a portfolio manager with a short investment horizon would be willing to devote time and energy to a task delivering long-term value. After all, there are no guarantees that the effort will pay off, or that... View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
telecom business. The panelists responded that there is not much distinction between the types of value VCs add. They are, in general, quite cautious as a result of an obvious shakeout in service and the inevitable shakeout in equipment. While most of the panelists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
as examples of how the firm has responded to clients’ changing needs. While his future looks bright at Merrill, O’Neal doesn’t speculate about whether he will be asked to take its helm, a move that would make him one of the highest-ranking African Americans on Wall... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public offering, the first View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for substitutable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
Review Committee's preference is to fund graduates who are joining operating companies over those joining investment funds/vehicles. GO: ASIA is not available to founders, unlike the GO: AFRICA Fellowship that funds both founders and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
Fellow Marco Piovesan, whose research on how temptation influences work productivity included field experiments with children tempted by soda and candy at an Italian summer camp. "Understanding where these preferences and their behavior... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace