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- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
the 2028 Games as well. Despite the cost involved, competition to host the Olympics will no doubt continue. Political and financial risks aside, it’s hard to think of a more visible branding opportunity for... View Details
- September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Bank of America (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Describes how Bank of America is creating a system for product and service innovation in its retail banking business. Emphasis is placed on the role of experimentation in some two-dozen real-life "laboratories" that serve as fully operating banking branches and as... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Failure; Banks and Banking; Learning; Banking Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Bank of America (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-022, September 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
epidemic of business scandals would be to speak of a widespread failure among CEOs and other senior executives (along with board members, auditors, financial analysts, and others) to uphold their professional obligations. To speak of the... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Simone Marinesi. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Science in 2024. 2023 Prithwiraj Choudhury : Selected for the 2023 Forbes Future of Work 50 list. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2023 View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity” ( Journal of Financial Economics , January 2022) with Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang. Mitchell B. Weiss : Winner of the 2022 Apgar Award for Innovation... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
integrated report. Senior leadership was convinced that Natura's success over the years had been aided by its corporate responsibility and strategy to continuously seek improvements in both financial and nonfinancial (e.g., environmental,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Harvard Business School
league-wide risk management program to insure all property and casualty risks across the league through a new captive insurance company, improved the budgeting and financial... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
company’s competitiveness after the downturn ends? For the last five years, we have been studying layoffs and their alternatives. Our goal with this research is to help leaders understand when it makes sense for companies to use layoffs to address their View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an especially good time to provide... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
people to do senior managers all want innovation and risk taking in principle, but they don't have ways of measuring and evaluating it in the short term. So focus generally wins in larger, well-established organizations " What to do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
problematic for the workplace since it implies that workers will slow down their work rather than risk appearing idle—making it difficult for managers to tell how much work employees actually have and leaving them no capacity for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
been forthcoming. Commercial lenders have also shunned her, even though much of the financial risk associated with the project ultimately stems from discriminatory practices such as redlining, which for... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find that as patent wars intensify, smartphone vendors not involved in any litigation focus more of their business in markets with weaker intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
littleny Can YouTube’s Users Help the Company Deal With Its “Moral” Problem?* This month’s mini-case described the dilemma faced by Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube: how far to promote “sustainability,” viewership, and (to some) free speech at the View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
key metrics that dictate whether a venture has achieved product-market fit and is ready for scaling. “The course is useful for startupland citizens—founders, investors, and joiners—to get complete, honest insights about the industry through various lenses.” Lugas... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
M. Henderson : Chosen as one of three “Directors of the Year” by the Financial Times . Frank Nagle : Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, Term-Member, 2019. Jan W. Rivkin : Finalist for the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS)... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
may be perceived as an impediment – growing up in a low-income household – in fact enabled me to discover my passion. As an FGLI, I feel apprehensive to ask for help because I do not know how people may perceive me, and I worry about the View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
bookings drop by an estimated 12 percent in the time period studied compared to white, Black, or Hispanic hosts—just one way that Asians experienced broad discrimination after the pandemic’s origins in China were politicized, finds a new working paper coauthored by... View Details