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  • Teaching Interest

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21st Century Energy — Dr Crawford teaches this EC course, which exposes students to business models and management diilemmas, all along the energy value chain — from oil sands and pipelines, to coal and natural gas, hydro and nuclear, wind and solar, to biofuels. The... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Efficiency; Energy Storage; Governance; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Resource Allocation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Competitive Strategy; Energy Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Asia; United States
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In... View Details
Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

create new, high-margin businesses that will drive corporate growth in 10-20 years and enable the company to "reinvent" itself, even though they will not be around to reap the benefits of this investment. The executive team must choose how to View Details
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain

same. Allocating resources to retain the most profitable and to induce customer behaviors that lead to greater profitability is the key to survival. Typically, 20 percent of the customers or clients are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 06 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

longing for. After becoming a mom four years ago, I had spent more time focused on family, and I felt that I needed to allocate more time back to myself. My little one is just like a mirror of myself. I can see that my life journey would... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

America the Difficult

their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can’t. In effect, these distorted environments burden local firms, create opportunities for institutional arbitrage for multinational firms, and can... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

and allocation of what some perceive as a somewhat fixed supply of resources? Or is the amount of these resources expanded by the very process of growth? Is growth good? If so, what kind and for how long?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Embracing Paradox

By: Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith and Andy Binns
Trying to resolve the paradox between innovation and the core business only weakens the CEO and dooms the company. Exceptional leaders embrace tensions associated with exploiting prior strategies even as they explore into the future. View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Conflict of Interests; Business Strategy
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  • July 2009
  • Teaching Note

Targanta Therapeutics: Hitting a Moving Target (TN)

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Teaching Note for [709002]. View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Development; Business Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Selection and Staffing; Health Testing and Trials; Resource Allocation; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

reporting. In particular, such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

and build technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

and increases the chance that governments will under-invest. Policy suggestions that may alleviate this problem are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-040.pdf A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2024
  • Case

Cathay Cargo: Turnaround Short Haul, or Double Crew Long Haul?

By: Willy Shih and Billy Chan
Tom Owen, Director Cargo at Cathay Pacific Airways, had a problem. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the grounding of passenger flights meant the sudden loss of 50% of the airline's cargo carrying capacity. But the bigger challenge was that the Hong Kong government imposed... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Resource Allocation; Cash Flow; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Air Transportation Industry; Hong Kong
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  • July 2008
  • Teaching Note

Yale University Investments Office: August 2006 (TN)

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807073]. View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Assets; Leveraged Buyouts
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  • 06 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

afterthought. "If you look at the allocation of resources in corporate wellness programs, you will find it heavily weighted towards physical health," says Quelch. Only rarely does a tragedy, such as a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation
  • 23 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

realize as a typical citizen as you're going about your daily life.” A resource for COVID researchers Even though the tracker is no longer updated live, the detailed database could serve as a great resource... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

their goals. Alternatively, some might lean into their comparative advantage in area, and let go of the other. Three notable tensions 1. How, as an organizational leader, does one navigate resource View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

psychology, and neuroscience are integrated and applied to problems in human resource management, labor economics, organizational behavior, finance, governance, and corporate control. Jensen taught the first version of the course at HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young