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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 2ms Harvard Business School’s economic model performed impressively in fiscal 2019. For the fifth consecutive year, revenues grew faster than expenses, resulting in a double-digit increase in... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
Information section that begins on page 26. The balance of this letter recaps the School’s fiscal 2016 financial performance in light of our key strategic challenges. It concludes with our financial forecast for fiscal 2017 and some... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
guide. Clear articulation of values and principles helps employees choose among alternatives in a consistent manner. "One Cemex, we are only one Cemex," CEO Lorenzo Zambrano declared to me. The Mexican company is one of the world's View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
meaningful we achieve in life comes with some form of struggle attached, and rarely do we pause long after one struggle before we're on to the next. If Sisyphus ever were to finally get the rock up the top of that hill, it's likely he'd... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
as one of the top women dealmakers in the financial-services arena. Two sessions of morning panels addressed issues related to specific industries. During the first session, attendees could choose among panels that examined the fields of... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
the performance of mechanisms intended for human use. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-064.pdf PublicationsBusiness Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Authors:Paul M. Healy and Krishna G.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
executives. Healy: To put it in context, we live in a society in which the stars—entertainers, professional athletes, the top performers in any industry—make all the money. That includes the executive market... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 29 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business
Whether this means creating a go-to-market strategy or performing capital budgeting, I am confident that I can make valuable contributions and deliver results. But even if you intend to go into a specific functional area such as marketing... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
care, value is determined by how well the needed set of skills and functions come together. In surgery, for example, value depends on not only the surgeon but also the anesthesiologist, the nurses, the radiologist, the skilled technicians, and others, all View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the resources whose View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
investor expectations are strongly negatively correlated with model-based expected returns. The evidence is not consistent with rational expectations representative investor models of returns. September 2013 Management Science The Stock Selection and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions... View Details
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William Donaldson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Full Transcript (PDF) William “Bill” Donaldson, HBS 1958, was one of the founders of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). In the late 1950s, a new breed of institutional fund manager required higher quality research on firms’ projected stock price View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. CEO succession is a process taking many years, not an event that takes place shortly before a transition. It reflects the way a company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
of executing on its recently refined strategy. Opinions ranged across the following strategic issues: growing the firm's Asian footprint versus remaining focused in Europe; aiming to be a top performing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton Abstract While the concepts of lean production are frequently applied in service organizations, there is little work that rigorously has examined implementing lean production in contexts other than manufacturing, as well as lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the benefits from reducing tax distortions. We further discuss sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne