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- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
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Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>
Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Laying Down the Principles: Management A system of centralized management was born from the need to direct the flow of capital and run... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
large contract from the U.S. Army that put its combat boots on the feet of more than two million soldiers. Its success carried into the postwar boom economy. Building on the Sport-Man brand, the company added a line of hiking boots and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
cracks began to appear in its carefully crafted production plan. The first order of modular homes languished on the assembly line for months as Greentech struggled to resolve a number of serious production-control issues. Stuntz now has... View Details
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How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis | Working Knowledge
on the cash flow curve for an investment that will eventually add revenue. You can imagine a straight horizontal line that represents steady cash flow over time. An investment... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System
The Toyota Production System is a paradox. On the one hand, every activity, connection, and production flow in a Toyota factory is rigidly scripted. Yet at the same time, Toyota's operations are enormously flexible and responsive to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
customers and products. A free flow of information that keeps people at the top informed, yet empowers those on the front lines to solve problems quickly, is crucial to implementing a successful strategy in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
process. The staff of seven recently switched from an assembly line to a less-efficient but more scalable pick-and-pack process, with one person completing each order. In the previous setup, adding staff would create bottlenecks. “Imagine... View Details
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
fixed costs. Nonetheless, total revenue exceeded our forecast, cash flow increased from fiscal 2014, and HBS ended the year with a larger unrestricted reserves balance than initially anticipated. Looking ahead, our outlook for fiscal 2016... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Supplemental Financial Information Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Dimitris... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
CHARAN: Drawing on his global consulting experience. LAFLEY: Customers are “the boss.” Photo courtesy Proctor & Gamble What does it take to delight low-income Mexican buyers of sanitary pads? The answer is not a punch line to a poor joke;... View Details
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Field Course: Investing for Impact
ratios: RMA Annual Statement Studies Offers industry default risk and cash flow measures for 400 lines of business whose total assets are less than $250 million. Available in IBISWorld: (Search for... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the same as those required to improve the top View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ACE YOUR PHONE OR VIDEO INTERVIEW
accomplishments, specific examples, and questions for the interviewer. Taking the time to prepare before the interview will ensure that the conversation flows well. On the day of the interview, make sure you have all of the materials you... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
available—even before the pandemic. That got even tighter this year and when you add the holiday season and the vaccine, it’s a three-layer cake of nasty. The one silver lining is that air passenger travel is way down and some of those... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
microprocessor. “The thought was, If I’m going to get involved, get involved in the company that’s at the heart of that business. Being in that flow was critical,” he recalls. After Intel, McMinn worked at Megatest, Interwest Partners,... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
behaviors serve as a signal of prosocial identity and that people subsequently behave in line with that self-perception. In contrast, costless prosocial acts do not signal much about one's prosocial identity, so subsequent behavior is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
largest pump manufacturer in the world, headquartered in Bjerringbro, Denmark. Grundfos shared the same ecosystem of energy, material, and waste flows with other companies we visited. For example, Grundfos pumps installed in Denmark are... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017
Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 1ms Fiscal 2017 was a strong financial year for Harvard Business School. Revenues grew faster than expenses for the third consecutive year, resulting in double-digit growth in cash from operations. This cash View Details