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- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
cleared and flows of goods have become more plentiful and dependable, how will industry respond? Surely inventor-to-sales ratios will come back down, but to what extent? Will we return to the halcyon days of pre-pandemic inventory management? Or will larger safety... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
“Problems happen in family management when there are three or four brothers. All brothers may not be of equal capability and commitment.” Successful family-owned enterprises build mechanisms that over time recognize the value that each... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
donors in this study: some 40,000 recipients of a donation request letter, which asked them to give $20, $50, or $100 toward a new project. The letter recipients were divided into four groups. In the “control” group, recipients simply... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
Studies in December. She cowrote the paper with Pamela Hinds of Stanford University and Catherine Cramton of George Mason University. The authors point to classic research by Dora Lau and Keith Murnighan on "faultlines"—team... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Team - Case Method Project
as the creation of the Case Method Project at Harvard Business School in 2015 and, subsequently, the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy in 2020. Joanna Beinhorn Joanna Beinhorn is the program coordinator for the Case Method... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
between organizations can be attributed to effective cultures. Why is this true-how does culture affect the bottom line? A: The point is that organization culture is not a soft concept. Its impact on profit can be measured and quantified.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care
Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Full-time and part-time master's students from accredited Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Information Systems, Master of Public Health, Master of Business Administration program, or other similar master’s View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the platform owner. We present four main results. First, the successful development of an open... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Management Course | HBS Online
offer. Management Essentials $1,850 Next 8-week session starts Oct 1st Enroll Now Master four vital managerial processes: decision-making, implementation, organizational learning, and change management. 8 weeks 4-7 hours per week 4... View Details
- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
from 2300W to 2900W. For the second group, the first four models were named sequentially—2300W to 2600W, but the last three models reflected a brand name change—MagiColor, MagiColor II, and MagiColor III. Based on the names alone, on a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
amount for which they are eligible decreases by $10,000 USD. See "Awards" section below for detailed explanation. Application deadline: April 25 at 12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:AFRICA Demand for the program (i.e., the size of the... View Details
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The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education
Program Participants: We asked our Guest Services team some of the most common questions participants ask them; their answers are below. If you have any questions while you're on campus, just ask! What is the Chao Center used for? This is... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
documented in other samples. The size of the low risk anomaly within banks suggests that the cost of capital effects of capital requirements may be considerable. Assuming competitive lending markets, banks' low asset betas implied an average risk premium of only 40... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
identify teaching opportunities, such as points of tension or "fighting issues" that can be leveraged to generate engagement, debate, and deeper learning. They also can highlight teaching challenges, including aspects of the case content,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
TikTok posts attract millions of views, most do not. In the case of the “Victoria’s Secret” song, tens of thousands of people riffed off the post with their own video, and few were seen by more than a handful of people. So why do they bother? The View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
School assistant professor, and Serena F. Hagerty, a PhD candidate in the Business Administration PhD program, an interfaculty program between the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. Hagerty and Barasz sought... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
animated video above: People walking on the street transitions into data points on a map Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online... View Details