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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
will address the challenges facing organizations in attracting, developing, and retaining outstanding talent. He calls the approach required today "constellation leadership." What impact has the Internet's rapid growth had on the way... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Trust your instincts. “Make sure you can raise your hand and say, ‘Something doesn’t look right.’ ” Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 1, 2003 Sponsor: HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
that were required in the system were missing. There was a fragmented, highly complex, deeply inconsistent regulatory structure." As part of firms' efforts to deploy capital and seek higher returns, the... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations By: Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the organization. However, prior work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
state and local governments, balanced budget requirements force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Most states are required by law to carry balanced budgets and can only borrow... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Harvard Business School faculty offer their views: Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Geoff Jones, who researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business and has authored numerous books on these topics, including Multinationals and Global... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog
and will not be graded, but it will be highly recommended. Required Books Please note: you won’t be asked to read these books cover to cover – just to read some selected chapters. Don’t even think about it: Why our Brains are wired to... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
It is a classic leadership challenge of the early twenty-first century: How do you steer your business and motivate your people to pursue breakthrough growth while giving proper attention to executing the here and now with the utmost care and efficiency? Accomplishing... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
as of June 30, 2024, compared with $5.1 billion at the end of the prior year. Total cash received from gifts in fiscal 2024—including new endowment gifts and gifts for capital construction projects, payments on prior years’ pledges, and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
they set up a new group named Kittyhawk. An entrepreneurial manager from R&D was assigned as group leader, and he was given freedom to recruit any star engineering talent he required. These engineers were required to sign a creed that... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the prior year's stock selections, suggesting that investors believe that a successful process in one year is likely to be repeated the following year. We believe that these findings are particularly interesting given recent efforts to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital View Details
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
talent has become one of the biggest competitive issues for law firms. But although talent management is now recognized as a business issue of prime importance, law firms often lack the experience, vision, and tools to do it. This practical new handbook explores the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
under construction and in the process of transitioning from coal to biomass and seawater-based heat pumps. This transformation represents a complete overhaul of operational philosophy, and demonstrates how the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted venture View Details