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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
less product, especially with indulgence items. MacKay: The products we’re talking about are also sold in fairly competitive outlets, so you have a lot of inter-brand competition. To John’s earlier point on Dannon and Yoplait, you’re View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
(PSSC). Not only was the PSSC proactive in seeking to identify failures, it ensured that all failures were subject to analysis so that learning could take place. For example, the PSSC determined that "Focused Event Studies"... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
subject to varying levels of psychological influences. Although the importance of psychological factors may be something that business leaders have long understood, the field of economics has only relatively recently been equipped with... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
example, the Geneva Steel Company in Utah or Tennessee Coal and Iron in Alabama. 28 Information on the back of each print usually identified the photographer, PR staff ordering the print, and the subject of the photograph. Captions... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. [19] Power suppliers are also subject to risks and opportunities from regulations that address climate change, such as those imposed in Europe and New England that... View Details
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
performance," and reaches conclusions that might give pause to many who chase stars. Their subjects are top investment analysts (as identified annually by Institutional Investor magazine) and the organizations that develop and hire... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Why HBS? - Doctoral
for methodological and statistical consultation, data procurement and analysis, programming, subject pool administration, and region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library – one of the world’s largest and most... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
Credit: pixelfit SUMMING UP How Will Digital Currencies Be Regulated? Blockchain technology has a brighter future than most digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, judging from responses to this month’s column. It’s also clear that a discussion of... View Details
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
age where it was possible to allow data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data being a big deal to becoming a big hype. As is usually the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
Lemann Foundation have proposed to improve the quality of Brazilian education at all levels," said Lemann Foundation CEO Denis Mizne. "This gift is in harmony with that strategy, which aims to develop programs in a wide variety of View Details
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady Gaga, from actor Tom Cruise to tennis powerhouse Maria... View Details
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
the subject in a new paper: Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft. She cowrote the study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Accounting Research, with Clara Xiaoling Chen, an... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
not just assuming that because you are based in a country, you necessarily have to be subject to all the disadvantages imposed by that particular context." "wrapping Up In The Brazilian Flag" When Ghemawat turned the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
transmitted around the globe. It is a subject that Kominers explores in depth in the recently published book he coauthored with Steve Kaczynski, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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HBS - The year in Review
surged Learning Tracks Launched HBS Online saw a surge of interest in online learning as a result of the pandemic. In May 2021, the group launched Learning Tracks to enable professionals to specialize in a particular subject area and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
I prioritize my time and energy toward what matters most? How do I think about taking risk and rebounding from disappointment or failure? How will I surround myself with a support group? The subjects are unpacked through self-assessments,... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
courses within a specific subject area to gain deeper insights and expertise. If all three courses are completed successfully, learners will earn a Certificate of Specialization. HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in... View Details
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
metrics to help determine how agile the company is, how agile it should be, whether it is moving in the right direction at the right speed, and which constraints are impeding progress. Surveys of internal and external stakeholders to obtain their View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
activity and put in place collective governance. By contrast, Nagle argues, the Amazon rainforest is subject to control by a gatekeeper—Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, who must weigh national politics with environmental protections... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert