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By: Jill J. Avery
Creating Brand Value (MBA elective course)
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In the consumer/retail space, brands are often companies’ most valuable assets and sources of their sustainable competitive advantage. But, managing brands to achieve their full value potential... View Details
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In the consumer/retail space, brands are often companies’ most valuable assets and sources of their sustainable competitive advantage. But, managing brands to achieve their full value potential... View Details
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Duo Mobile app (or some other two-factor authentication method), also described above, has been installed and registered/configured. For connecting to the HBS campus network, please follow the appropriate section on the VPN/DUO Quick... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
application. The course is intended for organizational leaders and managers to be prepared to act on data analysis and to decide whether data science applications are appropriate tools for their businesses or organizations. The course is... View Details
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Negotiation
By: Kevin P. Mohan
Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
industries—forget about across industries—in agreeing on what is appropriate. I don't think it's because they don't want to; it's because they have different values, which in the end come down to details: What is child labor? What types of factory jobs, if any, are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... September 2016 (Revised October 2018) HBS Case Collection Springfield Hospital by Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of performance and... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
In examining the way governments choose a structure in which to conduct investment promotion activities we found that most of the organizational issues fell within the realm of the public-private choice of management of certain nontraditional government activities.... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
that, “Remote work is increasingly here to stay. The future is in remote work.” Not all business practitioners agree, at least for their organizations. CEO Jamie Dimon has concluded that a remote work strategy isn’t appropriate for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
non-competes hurt employees by limiting their job mobility and sending them on “career detours” where they may have to accept lower compensation than appropriate for their experience level. More important, departing employees are often... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
discussions, we will have several practitioners visit the class (including comedians and matchmakers) and we will situate many of our conversational exercises in the context of the workplace, where conversational challenges related to impression management, View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
indirectly . . . [which] can be controlled by appropriate legislation.” [11] Lehman Brothers also focused on the oil industry, helping to finance TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., Penzoil Company, Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company, and... View Details
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
conditions for capitalism, practiced fairly and responsibly, to flourish. And to make the punishments for not doing so appropriately threatening and onerous for those who don't." Others were less definitive in their comments. As... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"There is a very strong emotional response to the lack of fairness, irrespective of the right rational decision," says Wasynczuk. "The more we understand how people behave based on emotions, the more thoughtful and View Details
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Delimiters - Research Computing Services
appropriate columns, select the entire column by click on the column header A Within the DATA tab at the top, click on Text to Columns In the new window, Convert Text to Columns Wizard , on Step 1 you should select Delimited . Next, on... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
people in the higher ranks of Unilever, yet compared to most companies, Unilever was distinguished worldwide by competent and professional management. The challenge was to translate these strengths into a competitive performance that matched its peers, and delivered... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
quality. That's why it's so important to make the transition smooth—to provide financial incentives to move to IPv6, and to provide a framework to let ISPs enter and expand even their IPv4 operations at reasonable cost and with View Details
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
subjects such as the "fairness of my boss." The underlying theme in such conversations, though, is the strength and appropriateness of the organization's culture. Organizations with clearly codified cultures enjoy labor cost... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details