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- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
has been an increase in the use of (the) Internet, and users are well aware of the importance of certain applications and services." AIM agreed that: "compared to dot.com bubble days we are living in a much broader information... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the questioner's intent, not on the question. Consider the whole deal. Negotiate multiple issues simultaneously, not serially. Don't negotiate just for the sake of negotiating (a pitfall for recent MBA graduates). Think through the timing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
isolation, and as a consequence avoid deviating much-for any given subset-from the expected overall distribution of judgments. For instance, an interviewer who has already highly recommended three applicants on a given day may be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Harvard Business School Case 307-056 GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
of industry applications and geographic locations in the 1990s, and most recently to infrastructure finance in the 2000s. The third section provides a statistical overview of project-financed investment over the last five years (2005 to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
cities” field. “I wanted to explore the opportunities and challenges of selling to government in a company that is moving from selling hardware in big chunks to selling software as a service,” says Weiss, the MBA Class of 1961 Senior... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
on the promise of a product; pragmatists buy when the product's benefits are proven. But pragmatists usually control the bulk of the money. Understanding how a specific set of pragmatists and visionaries relate to one another in the View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
negotiators” "You can't script the process," says Wheeler, the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Whoever who sits across the table from you is likely to be as determined, as smart, and as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
of the AMP experience." Applicants are generally 3 to 5 years away from achieving the rank of CEO or its equivalent, and they must be endorsed and sponsored by their company's highest levels of management. Every Friday, participants... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data science and its applications in business. Students learn to (1) carefully articulate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
valuation and is commonly used in practice by stock market analysts and companies themselves. However, it is rarely taught in MBA programs or broached in valuation textbooks. Yet the application of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
that managers deliver ROI from their marketing investments; therefore, quantifying the effects of marketing decisions is imperative. At the same time, customer relationship management (CRM) software and emerging Web 2.0 applications are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Harvard Business School Case 118-014 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
backgrounds—the intersection where creativity is most likely to occur, according to The Medici Effect, a book by Frans Johansson (HBS MBA '00) that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile's... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
nonlinear pricing schedule refers to any pricing structure where the total charges payable by customers are not proportional to the quantity of their consumed services. We begin the chapter with a discussion of the broad applicability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Course MaterialsPerforming Industry Research to Inform Investment Decisions Harvard Business School Note 207-069 Conducting thorough research about an industry is often an important component of investment analysis. Written specifically for HBS View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
after our intervention. Entrepreneurs with MBAs or accelerator experience did not respond to this intervention, suggesting that formal training can limit the spread of peer advice. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman