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- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22
PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, New Jersey, garden... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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An American Story
Joan Levy and Ted Levitt on August 1, 1948. The couple married six months after their first date. Photo courtesy Joan Levitt Boris Levitt was a Russian shoemaker who lived under Stalin before he was captured... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
San Francisco School of Medicine and received his bachelor’s degree from Pomona College. Contact ZacharyLandman@gmail.com Education MD, University of California San Francisco BA, Pomona College Joan Magretta, Senior Institute Associate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
companies. It stood to reason that private firms, which tend to be highly leveraged, would hoard even more cash as a precaution. But according to a first-of-its-kind study by Joan Farre-Mensa an assistant... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The event is cosponsored View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 17 Sep 2015
- News
Seattle and Cleveland Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Joan P. Schaefer (MBA 1997) delivered remarks at The HBS Campaign Cleveland Regional Event, September 17, 2015. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from the Seattle, Washington and Cleveland, Ohio regions gathered on September... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
committee, led by Joan McCabe (MBA '81), offered sound advice and counsel as we grappled with the difficulty of canceling the conference in Buenos Aires and is monitoring the progress of the Shanghai and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
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Credits – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Library Editing: Karen Bailey, Katherine Fox, Joan K. O'Donnell Exhibition Design: Chris Danemayer, proun Design Exhibition staff: Rachel Wise, Priscilla Anderson, Martha Kearsley, Melissa Murphy Print Design: Eleanor Bradshaw Mary Lee... View Details
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Schlesinger Library Archives Collections - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Bibliography Baker Library Archives Schlesinger Library Archives Radcliffe College Archives, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration Records, 1936-1977 This substantial archival... View Details
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Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Teisberg 2007 – Redefining Health Care named Book of the Year by American College of Health Care Executives 2008 – Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development from the U.S. Department of Commerce 2011 – Understanding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
the best location to start a business, assemble the necessary resources, adapt to local environments, and execute for success. Creating Value through International Strategy edited by Africa Arino, Pankaj Ghemawat, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
runner-up in the social enterprise category of the HBS Business Plan Contest. They used the $5,000 cash prize and the same amount in services from The Bridgespan Group to turn their business plan into a reality. They garnered support from a wider range of artists —... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
know, the 2002 Global Alumni Conference was scheduled to take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, last March. After careful consideration by the School and conference organizers in Argentina, the Global Alumni Conference Committee, ably... View Details