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Prita Kumar
progress on her product roadmap and in all the features that she’s added and implemented. “Every different metric has gotten stronger and better,” she said. “So it’s clear that we’re making smart decisions on the product... View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
lead to a different method in solving certain situations such as pay discrepancy " As Ali put it, "Why companies find it so difficult to talk salary when our government is so open on what each employee is paid is baffling. The... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
ended up hiring me) by a friend from HBS as well. From a more personal perspective: My friends from HBS are some of my best sounding boards. As I’ve grown and advanced in my career, I’ve made mistakes, faced difficult View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Bridgestone/Firestone. "That was a tremendously difficult period for our customers and for us as a leadership team," recalled Nasser, before adding that Ford's commitment to consumers made it an easy View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
difficult professional situations. Members can seek help through call centers and in-person meetings with accounting experts in the field to discuss how to best handle difficult situations. In addition, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to attack some of the world's most difficult problems. After turning Echoing Green around and re-building an organization almost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Business School Note 511-028 Pricing is one of the most difficult decisions marketers make and the one with the most direct and immediate impact on the firm's financial position. This toolkit will introduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
need? What is the optimal setting and context in which they should be delivering care? What processes should they use? There are all sorts of operating managerial and strategic decisions that we haven't even talked about at a policy level... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To understand better how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
Business School Exercise 408-076 Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
the Carter Mountain decision survived court challenges, the FCC formalized its policies concerning the importation of broadcast signals. In 1966, the Commission required cable operators operating in the 100 largest television markets... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
difficult feedback. Finally, leaders must empower . Once they have done the work of enthusing and enabling, they must create opportunities for people around them to thrive by pushing decision-making down through every level of the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
difficult to compute. Yet these customers generate value to the firm because their presence attracts fee-paying sellers. In this paper we consider the value of a customer in these types of networked setting. We compute the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inappropriate centralized and bureaucratic organizational design on the target firm. Management was unable to make critical decisions without multiple approvals. "As a result, the organization lost its vitality, performance began to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
long-term view. Our findings contribute to the literature on incentives for innovation by showing how contract structure can motivate unplanned employee-initiated innovation activities that are difficult to contract upon ex ante Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
decision was very important for me and for all the firm’s partners. Also, given the extremely difficult financial environment we are in, I expect charities will be greatly affected. That’s why it’s incumbent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
unexpectedly departs, leaving Lane with a direct path to promotion. Senior leadership now once again faces the difficult decision of whether to promote Lane, this time based on their assessment of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
the Navy, my brothers had both enlisted following high school, and military service ran deep throughout both sides of my family. With my decision to go to college, I had broken with this tradition and I originally had no goal of joining.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our View Details