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- 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1
force. Students must analyze the factors contributing to turnover as well as the role of the field sales force in Clef's profitable business strategy. Among other things, the Clef case illustrates that managing field marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Hours Harvard Business School Case 407-007 When a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
for the same borrower, required monthly loan installments are 11% less likely to be missed under the group liability setting, relative to individual liability. In addition, compulsory savings deposits are 20% less likely to be missed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
reenergize the industry. Will Southwest's no-frills, point-to-point approach become the new dominant business model, or will traditional carriers reinvent their businesses? This question has even more resonance in the wake of the global financial View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
depression, led to a crisis in the industry. Nonetheless, the pioneering group of forecasters shaped the core problems, and invented many of the techniques, that influenced the maturation of the industry in the decades that followed.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
destroying individuals and families. In recent years, as the opioid crisis swept the country, the organization shifted to a broader focus, re-branded as the Georgia Prevention Project. Now Langford wants to stem the spread of opioids with... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
linked to politics, economics, and ecology. Any bit of news, such as an oil tanker spill, a technical problem at a plant, or a political crisis in 1 of their sourcing countries, can send their share prices into a tailspin. Even good news... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
https://hbr.org/product/Homestrings--Inc---Diaspo/an/814031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-026 China's Environmental Challenge China faces enormous environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic, and political origins of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
and public sector workers who are both motivated by the mission of their positions and the remuneration. Zambia was facing a healthcare human resource crisis with less than half of the healthcare workers needed to meet health needs. Yet,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Everglades National Park, and Chesapeake Bay. This book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local merchants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
communism as a result of too many layers of bureaucracy and not enough market (true enough). But I then tell students that I made a mistake and that this chart actually represents the managerial organizations of one of the most successful... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16
teaching can help faculty resolve a basic dilemma of academia: promotion is often based upon our published research, and we find that responsibilities to teach detract from the mandate to publish. When approached properly, case studies can transform teaching into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
leading global player in the baking industry, expands into China while at the same time undertaking initiatives to make its U.S. and South American operations more profitable. Allows students to analyze the company's entire global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
international isolation. Over the past year, many HBS alumni and students have served in both military and civilian roles in Iraq. On the following page, the Bulletin presents some of their stories. READ MORE L. Paul Bremer: In His Own... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
satisfy your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. Or formulate your own responses to a CIO's management obstacles by reading the authors' recurring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne