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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
hours of operation, merchandising displays, and pricing. By contrast, the span of control for managers at corporate headquarters who oversee merchandising and other core operations is set at "wide." They are responsible for... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
for corporate groups in Latin America from working within protected economies and industries to being completely open to the global economy," he said. "We're going to have to be much more entrepreneurial than we were in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
the London event, while Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi moderated for the Singapore event. The conversation addressed questions like, “Can a system designed to generate profit really make a difference against the massive social and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
first time to executives who report directly to OPM participants for graduates. The intensive two-week program will include courses in Human Aspects of Business, General Management, Corporate Finance, Marketing Strategy, Acheiving View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
to entry were eliminated, and many new carriers entered the market. While deregulation resulted in a dramatic increase in air travel, it also fundamentally changed the profit potential of the industry. Under regulation, airlines could... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
City released the 'New' New York Plan focused on transforming the city's job centers to support the ways people will live and work in the future. A set of initiatives emerged to serve as a roadmap to make New York City the best place to work. Spearheaded by the NYC... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
capacity in global markets to provide capital in an economy, and that increases their ability to absorb risk.” Thus, diversification becomes self-reinforcing, making global financial markets more stable, at the same time allowing investors to View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
decline in job ownership. Leadership took a large share of the blame. J Mac’s comment was typical of several: “I think the ‘job renter’ behavior is the result of the ‘management takes all’ culture in today’s corporations ” Ed Hare... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
confirmed that becoming a lawyer was not an ideal match, and so, to identify paths forward with economics, she connected with another nonprofit organization, INROADS. Like Boston Lawyers Group, INROADS advances diverse youth in corporate... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
with those chargers and make a profit off of those platforms. Going forward, we will be selling a software platform to monitor and control buildings and electric vehicles.” For now, Fermata Energy is focusing on EV fleets, not residential... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308111 Shaklee Corporation:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
talk to their peers about recent developments in this burgeoning industry. As copresident of this year's Communications, Media, & Computing Ventures Club, he helped stage Cyberposium '96, a gathering of high-tech gurus and corporate... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who were American's best customers.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
the platform business landscape to work more effectively with platforms or respond to new opportunities in your industry. "HBS Online courses are excellent for anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
increases. Diversification The Wrong Way Reinsurance firms are pushed to diversify, diversify, diversify, but they need to do it well, which Froot hasn't found to be the case. Reinsurers often diversify in order to garner good scores from ratings agencies—and those... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne