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HBS - The year in Review

transformation and seismic market shifts. Building RENAMED for James I. Cash In September 2020, Harvard Business School announced it would honor James I. Cash, the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, by... View Details

06 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

they spend any more money or do any additional work. The only thing we are suggesting is that they change their algorithm.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: RyanJLane ] Related Reading The Profit Power of Corporate Culture How an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

06 Feb 2019
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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

trying to commercialize a technology we found in a lab at Harvard. However, we quickly learned that VCs weren’t willing to fund our upfront investments unless future cash flows were all but certain. We then decided to pivot back to our... View Details

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

Fortunately, they had already signed a lease on a larger property—but funds were running short. “Chatri pulled Kathleen and me aside and told us we had about two weeks of cash left,” recalls Loo. “That fired us up. Two weeks later—in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

January 2021
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Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Cash Flow; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; United States; California

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30 Oct 2019
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How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Title IX & Gender Equity | About

496-0871 Cash House 307 Title IX Resource Coordinator for Faculty Cara Sterling (Managing Director, Administrative and Educational Affairs) csterling@hbs.edu (617) 495-6126 Morgan Hall 114A Title IX Resource Coordinator for Staff Sally... View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

that focuses on the business problems or opportunities, and not on the technology or the latest buzzword. After all, digital strategy is all about strategy. When Ajay Banga became the CEO of Mastercard, he recognized that more than 85% of the transactions around the... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Systemic Risk awarded by the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) for “Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds” (with Sergey Chernenko). 2015 Malcolm P. Baker : Received the 2015... View Details

02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

problem. More broadly, the best response to a barrier in one dimension may be moves within other dimensions. As the purchasing agent calms down a bit, for example, he mentions that cash is very tight, "especially this quarter."... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2020
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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

industry at large, are losing revenue and cash flow that will be difficult to replace. Manufacturers can run overtime and make up for lost production and fill pent-up demand, but services demand is perishable and hard to replace. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Jan 2018
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How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

soap even after the incentives stopped. In one incentive group, people learned that they would receive one ticket for each day they washed their hands; the tickets could be accumulated and cashed in for various goods and gifts in a prize... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 May 2019
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Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

to 80 in 2014. Another example: Some 70 percent of auditors in 1996 were likely to settle claims with some sort of cash payment. By 2016 the percentage of paid settlements had dropped to a little over 30 percent. “Reducing the bite, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

look more carefully at how budgets drive compensation and, in turn, behavior. In a traditional pay-for-performance incentive system, a manager's total cash compensation (salary plus bonus) is constant until a minimum performance hurdle is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Venture Competition Judge A capstone event for students who have worked to develop new venture plans while at HBS. All participants present live to experienced investors, entrepreneurs, and experts and receive invaluable feedback at each round of the Competition.... View Details

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

manufactured by another firm elsewhere, and distributed by dealers everywhere—all underwritten by global cash flows. Often these networks are established without much redundancy planning or other risk-mitigation factors to counter... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Building on the Legacy Thought Leadership Andrew F. Brimmer James I. Cash Jr. Linda A. Hill David A. Thomas HBS Faculty Members HBS Doctoral Students Alumni Profiles Research Links Essay on HBS Thought Leadership Early AASU documents... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Antecedents of Strategic Licensing By: Dafna F. Bearson and Maria P. Roche 18 MAR 2025 | Faculty & Research How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations By: Jennifer Walsh 14 MAR 2025 | Faculty &... View Details

16 Dec 2019
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Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

hopping on a bus, the customer simply hits "send" to transfer the money to a family member's phone. "Then, ka-ching! The family member goes to an agent in her village and cashes the money from her phone," Rangan... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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