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- August 2013 (Revised December 2017)
- Supplement
Harold Mills at ZeroChaos (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Maurice L. Kuykendoll II
After leading a management buy-out, Harold Mills transformed ZeroChaos into a global staffing enterprise. Poised to raise additional capital to fund the company's next phase of growth, he was also confronting the liquidity demands of his early-stage investors and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
skilled employees for three weeks to non-profit health organizations to provide pro bono consulting and technology services. It focuses on a handful of projects each year selected from an applicant pool of... View Details
- August 2013
- Case
Harold Mills at ZeroChaos (A)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Maurice L. Kuykendoll II
After leading a management buy-out, Harold Mills transformed ZeroChaos into a global staffing enterprise. Poised to raise additional capital to fund the company's next phase of growth, he was also confronting the liquidity demands of his early-stage investors and... View Details
- Web
Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
Featured Exercises Evaluate how your company measures its emissions and how it might reduce them Identify key emissions sources and variables companies should consider when View Details
- June 2012 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
A.P. Møller - Maersk Group: Evaluating Strategic Talent Management Initiatives
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management strategy. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Maersk was a global conglomerate with large shipping and oil & gas businesses.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
that. They make sure they carry enough inventory so you can get that job done immediately. Lighting fixtures, on the other hand, are a different animal. There are hundreds of thousands of options to choose from and generally the need is... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
consequences. Reduced-form analysis shows that a firm's choice of index-based benchmarking is 1) driven by its compensation consultants' systematic tendencies and governance-related frictions and 2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders
- October 2007 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester (Abridged)
By: Michael D. Watkins, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
This is a shortened version of "The Coca-Cola Company (A): The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester," HBS case #9-800-355. It eliminates some background detail and the financial data and exhibits. As with the original case, it chronicles the appointment of Douglas... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
possible with this new branch of computer science, particularly the power of convolutional neural networks. It was through this curriculum that I fell in love with data science and learned about the challenges of the embryo View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
just a perception influenced by selective bias, wherein the McVays and Shanahans of the world stick in our minds? We decided to examine this question by looking at NFL coach hires in the twenty first... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
positively select into negotiations on observable characteristics of the negotiation environment, only women positively select on unobservables such as their ability to negotiate. Organizational Structures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
When Should a Social Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?
Existing economic wisdom offers unequivocal advice to managers seeking to establish new platform businesses: Invest to acquire users as quickly as possible and make sure that they have ... View Details
- December 8, 2022
- Article
What Companies Still Get Wrong about Layoffs
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Marilyn Morgan Westner
Research has long shown that layoffs have a detrimental effect on individuals and on corporate performance. The short-term cost savings provided by a layoff are often overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
multidisciplinary treatment of head and neck cancers. Methods: Four prospective treatment-based bundles were developed for patients with selected head and neck cancers. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 1987
- Supplement
Au Bon Pain: Interviews with Ron Shaich and Len Schlesinger, Video
By: W. Earl Sasser, Christopher Hart and Lucy N. Lytle
To be used with Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, the Partner/Manager Program. View Details
- Web
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
the shoes of executives, directors, shareholders, and other players in the corporate governance ecosystem, you will learn about the work boards do and the critical decisions they make; how boards View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
transformation. Over the preceding two years, Davis and Gorowitz had grown Swagbucks from a relatively small venture staffed by people from Gorowitz’s personal and professional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2025
- Article
Innovations in Evaluating Ambulatory Costs of Cystic Fibrosis Care: A Comparative Study Across Multidisciplinary Care Centers in Ireland and the United States
By: Emma Brady, Ryan C. Perkins, Kate Cullen, Gregory S. Sawicki, Robert S. Kaplan and Gerardine Doyle
Lead clinicians at two large pediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) centers in the United States and Ireland measured and compared their ambulatory care costs. The clinicians selected three strata of patients (0–11 months, 1–5 years, and 6–17 years of age). Process maps were... View Details
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the renowned HBS case method . Admissions Criteria and Process: We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most... View Details