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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Harvard University and other institutions found that 43 percent of small businesses had temporarily closed. Immediate action was needed to support the sector. Mills, author of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, was active in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
challenges traditional views about the source of Japan's competitive success. Professor Pankaj Ghemawat, head of the unit's required course, Competition and Strategy, focuses on strategic commitments - decisions that involve significant... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no possibility of appeal, no... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and repatriation. Perhaps, the biggest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help Us Reduce Short-Sighted Decision Making Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Although observers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
provide a better life for Diana and her sister. Good at math and science, Diana attended Cornell University and HBS for graduate school. Today, she sees a bit of irony in her decision to study operations research and industrial... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about interest rates, exchange rates, or... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
primarily to C-suite executives. C-suite authority does provide access to one kind of agency, the freedom to act in the realm CEOs manage. But CEOs do not suddenly wake up and commit to activities that drive organizational resources to... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- Web
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 21 Nov 2024 How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters Jess Hopper Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies If you’re a Harvard Business School alumnus, you’ve... View Details
- Web
About IT: IT Planning and Service Delivery Team Profile | Information Technology
partners while acknowledging that not everything can be done at once. That’s where this team steps in, skillfully managing requests from across the HBS community and making the tough but strategic decisions that keep work moving forward.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP. Climate Stories author Jacqueline Adams serves on the International Advisory Council of the United States Institute of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
more urgent. Health care workers from areas where there are fewer cases are already traveling to hotspots like Boston and New York to help, Trelstad says. Central to the case study is a decision Last Mile Health had to face early on in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
Goldshlager’s opinion was based on a misunderstanding about the best cases. As she put it, “a great discussion case does not ‘illustrate best practices’—it presents a decision maker facing a complex challenge for which there is no one... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
and principles—that is, by providing freedom within a galvanizing framework—leaders can equip employees to make on-the-ground decisions that are in the company’s best interests. Gulati uses businesses as diverse as Netflix, Alaska... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
first-year LEAD and any HBS Executive Education program where leadership is discussed? The case, first published in 1999, hinges on a decision that wasn’t even present when Hill started her research: Diagnosed with a high-risk pregnancy,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
antitrust authorities, who fear they could ultimately harm consumers by raising prices above typical competitive levels. It doesn’t seem too long ago when a price change was a major strategic decision for companies, requiring extensive... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Marketing: What Works? Purchase decisions are influenced differently in social networks than in the brick-and-mortar world, says Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta. The key: Marketers should tap into the networking aspect of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
that process, and uneconomic decisions are made, often involving subsidies to make up for manmade market imperfections. What’s to be done to encourage investment in low-wage workers, the question of the month? SayHowItReallyIs made... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett