Planning Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2003
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

efforts around online alumni services and products. Under the able leadership of Bob Shaw (MBA ’84), the Global Leadership Forum Committee spent most of the year defining a new financial and organizational model for the conferences. The committee also served as a vital... View Details

Keywords: Susan Luick Good; HBS Alumni Association; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

process and convince companies to consider the human cloud? The Answers: Seems like a good mix of broad PR and market education, together with high-value customer selling, will be required. The incubators and startup competitions are... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

difficulty responding to its plan to position itself as the only company whose technology supported the entire installed base of operating systems, including those for the Macintosh and old versions of Windows and Unix. The momentous... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

27 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

Enlisting support from local communities, she developed a process to turn the weeds into a material that can be used to weave diversified products. Today, MitiMeth trains artisans in this process, providing income earning opportunities... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Up by the Roots

When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Buy big, sell small

to classmates who had experience creating products or processes from ground zero and was inspired by cases about entrepreneurs whose creative concepts have benefited the world. “HBS pushes you to be ambitious but also clear headed,” she... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Robots to the Rescue

process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

outside the classroom? A: The marketing analysis toolkits were designed to provide a quantitative foundation for analyzing marketing decisions and an analytical structure and process for completing a marketing View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in Norwood, Massachusetts. The biotech... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

the nearest existing city, the hoped-for metropolis of King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is privately funded, privately managed, and privately developed by Emaar, The Economic City—a Tadawul-listed company focused primarily on planning... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

gradual process of confidence-building that leads investors to invest progressively more and, ultimately, to market integration," said Perotti. Other presenters were Columbia's Charles Himmelberg, who spoke on investor protection,... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

BiGS Fellows The BiGS Visiting Fellows are scholarly researchers who focus on issues of business and society. Consisting of scholars who study climate change or racial equity, they provide intellectual leadership and research support that accelerates the View Details

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees

employers can support LGBTQ+ employees. For example, Schlacks shared that his company "provides generous benefits for medical expenses related to family planning for employees (financial assistance for adoption and surrogacy). These... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

across the country. Urban Adaptation & Mumbai’s Climate Action Plan By 2030, India is expected to be the third largest economy in the world with a GDP of almost $8.5 trillion. Historically, countries have relied on emissions intensive... View Details

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What We Do | Research Associates

basis and did everything from asking people to fill out surveys and explaining what the process was about to making sure that the tax preparers understood the splitting service. There was a lot of on-the-ground data collection and... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty

college, I joined Saudi Aramco where I worked as a process engineer, and later as a project engineer, helping to build one of the largest petrochemical facilities in the world. While working at Saudi Aramco I was selected to join one of... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

emergency—a problem that is particularly acute for women and their ability to save for retirement. “In the United States, women’s pensions or retirement plans are typically 35 percent less than men’s even though we live longer and our... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog

enabling coordinated action in pursuit of organizational performance. Our emphasis is on how GMs get things done through making and guiding both larger and smaller decisions. We show how to use decision-making processes to achieve results... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

few Irish natives living in England - to get to know each other in a casual atmosphere, giving them free time between planned activities. "We wanted to begin, in a small way, the process of building bridges... View Details

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