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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
they are maintained. Another benefit is that these activities attract people who might otherwise never visit our properties. There's a nice cycle here: We acquire a property, develop a long-term management plan, and make this resource... View Details
- October 2024
- Teaching Plan
Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble
By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg
In late March 2018, Teamworks CEO Zach Maurides learned Q1 2018 sales were at risk for a large forecasting miss. Founded in 2004, Teamworks’s software application assisted support staff in messaging, scheduling, and sharing documents with collegiate and professional... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Technological Innovation; Sports; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North Carolina
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust embraced the importance of... View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
business life cycle how these fledgling ventures can operate across multiple countries. The course would also identify advantages and liabilities of starting an international company, how to manage it locally and globally, and building... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
unacknowledged, he suggested. Misunderstandings about goals are the result. Pay-for-performance may also have a natural life cycle that managers are unaware of, he said. Problems In San Diego One HP unit that threw the matter into relief... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
broadly it's about the communities we've grown up in and this sense that there's an unbelievable untapped potential. We think there's something we should be doing about that.” The MBA degree is not common in the Latinx culture, says Curiel, which results in a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
Hindustan Unilever playing a key role in driving positive change through collaboration. Suvidha Center, (Dharavi) MumbaiPublic toilets in India often suffer from neglect, becoming unsafe and unhygienic. Since they are free, maintenance is poor, creating a vicious View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
always been proud of maintaining my ethnic identity while also being a part of the broader community.” Rogers likes to say that he put an end to the cycle of welfare in his family, and he is quick to emphasize that he did not do it alone.... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Jon Schechter
tech that takes a long time to come to fruition, something that requires engineers from different disciplines, more complex development cycles and research.” View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
New Deal. Still, it was an important stepping-stone from the previous generation who did not fathom a role for government in modifying the business cycle at all. Q: What effect did the Great Depression have on the prediction business? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the next 15 years, the goal in our schools is to really break through to a situation where we can truly prepare kids for high-level college education and, eventually, livelihoods," says Leschly. "Because then you can break the cycle of... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
pay high coupons—typically, two-digit interest rates—for up to 30 years," Vallée explains. The researchers set out to find out why so many local politicians took out toxic loans in the first place—and whether they understood the stakes. Political Incentives To test... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
business cycle, and we chose to study 1991 and 1999 because those years bracket a full business cycle in the U.S. economy. With the passage of almost another decade, how much reliance is currently placed on in-house agencies? The... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
with a good track record but an "outsider" with limited knowledge of the business. The cycle is begun again. Sound familiar? It should. It's unfolding in two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Merrill Lynch and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
out of the cycle of poverty. At least 11 of his students have gone on to become doctors, according to family records, including his very first student: Dr. Malarkodi opted to became an internal medicine specialist rather than a... View Details
- Web
Women's History Month | Baker Library
that allows them to uplift themselves and their communities, suggesting that empowerment is an essential factor in breaking cycles of poverty and fostering equitable societies. You can download a PDF to read the full article on Women and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
to solve the problem - is an organization in trouble. Are there other lessons? We've awakened to the fact that in software, total quality counts. In the 1960s, we assumed that the replacement cycle would automatically filter out software... View Details