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- 20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
some of its suppliers. For example, shop-ping malls give Apple a special break. The company pays no more than 2 percent of its sales per square foot in rent, compared with 15 percent for a typical tenant. Why are mall owners so generous... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
acquisitions affect an estimated 5 million workers per year. While mergers typically lead to staff reductions, the new owners of an acquired company often promote talented women and people of color to oversee newly consolidated units and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Camshafts Limited (PCL) was founded by my father, Yatin Shah, 25 years ago in a small, 100-square-meter shed. In the beginning, the company manufactured 600 camshafts a month. Today, PCL is listed on the Indian stock exchange, manufactures over 10 million camshaft... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
and within four years Sears was selling one million units per year.1 In the mid-1960s, B.F. Goodrich embraced radial technology as a means to win market share from its larger rivals, and the company introduced the first American-made... View Details
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Rafaella Sadun | About
Italiana, " the highest-ranking order of the Republic awarded for “merit acquired by the nation” in 2021. In 2022 she was awarded the Prize “Fondazione de Sanctis per le Scienze Economiche.” Sadun received her PhD in Economics from the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
product's price per week. "The cost of obsolescence has gone up." Bulges In A Balloon Although obsolescence is a risk inherent in maintaining inventory, many potential causes of supply chain disruption are risks inherent in... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
office, while others spent almost none.) Next, the researchers crunched a number of factors measuring company performance—for example, profits per employee—in order to see which CEOs were more productively using their time. Better On The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
8 per class. I went to an alumni event recently with about 20 guys who were about five years out of school, and they laughed hysterically at the name. They were incredulous that we couldn’t just say what the club was, but the reality was... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
guaranteed payment of 50 cents per problem solved, or they could compete for higher stakes. Those who chose to compete received a significantly higher payout (ranging from $1 to $3 per problem) if they... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online
about this limited-time offer. Organizational Leadership $1,850 Next 7-week session starts May 28th Enroll Now Elevate your leadership skills to drive organizational success and effectively implement transformative change. 7 weeks 6-8 hours View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
limited-time offer. Global Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts July 30th Enroll Now Understand how decisions affect markets and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks 6-8 hours View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
player,” he says, citing Amazon and Alibaba; Apple and Samsung; Twitter and Weibo. “America has just 320 million people. Yes, GDP per capita is higher, but Asia is growing by leaps and bounds. If you localize and execute a proven US... View Details
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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online
listed on your account page on the Financial Aid tab. Grants are limited in number and awarded during designated grant application windows four times per year. We are not currently accepting grant applications. The next grant application... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
season from the website BasketballReference.com, and then compared how many minutes each player played under black coaches versus white. He found that players averaged 40 second less per game when playing for a coach of a different race,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
dramatically as well—retail square footage in the United States grew from 18.45 square feet per capita in 1999 to 23.06 square feet per capita in 2009. The hope among retailers (and commercial real-estate... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We suspected idle time might be more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
from Latin America, Africa, Turkey, and South Asia exuded this idea of stability, which assured employees, partners, customers, and everyone else. “After the crisis of 2009, the orders increased and our growth rate over the following five years is 21 percent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
cards. If you have questions, please email our office. Common US Business Visas + – H-1 Temporary Specialty Occupation This is the most common business visa classification. However there is a quota on the number of new H-1B visas issued each year — 85,000 View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
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The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
an organization level, that number comes out to $7,600 per physician per year. Most of that cost, they determined, comes from turnover, which had five times the impact of reduced hours, due to all of the... View Details