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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
and attach a more business-oriented perspective to the challenge: from added customer value to pricing, marketing, and so on. It's always a shame to see brilliant organizations where the technology team and... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
expenses and growth-focused investments, and its fiscal 2014 margin contribution also came in higher than initially planned. Executive Education also delivered strong financial results in fiscal 2014, while successfully building for the future. Although opening Tata... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
dividends. “The decision to accelerate that dividend was driven in large part by the executives’ preferences,” Pérez Cavazos says. While executives with a large stake in the company had added incentive to minimize taxes, that “doesn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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Training Course in Personnel Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
opportunity for women and this seemed like a good opening for them," she asserted. 5 The program began in the waning years of the Depression, and Stedman understood the value of professional training for women as "an economic necessity of... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
start a company and never harder to build one," and with Dan Isenberg, who notes that equating entrepreneurship with a start-up is not wrong, but is an incomplete picture of business formation. Significant value creation cannot occur... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
price remains a primary determinant of whether a consumer will buy a product, free shipping provides an added enhancement for online merchants to consider. Shoppers are only one-tenth as sensitive to increases in shipping fees as they are... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
dignity and earnings. This may be the first money they've earned in quite a while or the first money they've earned ever. The bakery is an added facet to the services we offer." For Haley House as a whole, he said, the bakery offers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
process that comprises many small projects, that evolves to meet the emerging demands of the ever-changing marketplace, that allows for frequent experimentation, and that delivers value on an ongoing basis. "Several decades ago, we... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Bridgestone/Firestone. "That was a tremendously difficult period for our customers and for us as a leadership team," recalled Nasser, before adding that Ford's commitment to consumers made it an easy decision to replace some 13 million... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
the December/ January 2008 issue of the Academy of Management Journal in which they question the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that “conventional MBA... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
an entrant needs to strategically choose whether to reveal its innovation by competing through the new business model or conceal it by adopting a traditional business model. We also show that the value of business model innovation may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement metrics—paying either for each click on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied endorsement in their selection of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
to respond, how they’re going to respond to our response. Finance because, when executed correctly, it drives value creation, enables your strategy, and is synergistic to the entire energy of the firm.” When it comes to goal setting and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
grappled with whether we should cancel," said HBSAAA president Ken Powell (MBA '74). "We decided to go ahead because we wanted to contribute to New York's economic recovery as well as unite to support one another in difficult times," View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
10% more agree to peace when it is proposed by a civilian community member rather than the enemy or an armed actor. Beyond the theoretical value of this result for understanding reactions to violence among communities and individuals, it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American foods such as shrimp, beef, and chicken ("No slithery, fishy things,"... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details