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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, in his honor.” “Harvard Business School has long been at the forefront in understanding the many facets of the entrepreneurial process — from the intricacies of finance to the art of leadership,” said... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
and a last-minute plan to swap employees between the two companies, the dealer conflicts intensified, KDC market share declined sharply, losses mounted, 2,000 jobs were cut, and ultimately, the venture was dissolved. Subject to more than... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
called them. In fact, he was just now planning an expedition to a blank area of southeast Alaska. But a summit higher than Everest? Carpé flipped through the book to learn more about the mountain better known as Minya Konka, but the... View Details
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
parts of your application and supporting materials. Recipients of an HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees award agree to abide by the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code . Application Process View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
seem like an odd fit. But the fact is that the business world has been paying increasing attention to how the brain works. The field of neuroeconomics has gained ground in the past 10 years, with work exploring the brain processes that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
illustrates the importance of embedding a scale-up strategy in the initial design of a program that aims to solve a widespread problem. In the following discussion, Kanter and Litow talk about the process through which creative,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
by deviating frequently and in predictable ways from the recommendations offered by a centralized capacity planning model. Finally, we document that these discretionary capacity supply decisions exhibit a strong learning effect whereby... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses—and it’s hard to fault them. The biggest problem with a short-term approach is that managers develop blind spots around crucial processes such as recruiting, hiring,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more- and less-homogeneous workplaces.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After substantial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
officer, chief financial officer, and a senior staff executive) had final authority. This promised a far shorter deliberation process than was typical of the Innovation Board in the second period. 39 The intention of XTV was to align... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
just steaming around in circles." Even as Liz Claiborne circled, AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, the world's largest airline, was in the process of laying off several hundred managers, technical specialists, and clerical... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
link improvements in their daily processes to achievement of high-level strategic objectives. The Balanced Scorecard framework describes strategy with strategic objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives. (See Figure 2-1.) Strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
Ensure that you routinely monitor your interactive and batch jobs , so that you can terminate them if they stall or become idle. Remember that resources 'in use' are not available to anyone else. Please do scaling tests if planning large... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new products or services can... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
globalized business world, and technologies that are constantly changing. Within that dynamic environment, a curveball can come from anywhere: a portion of their businesses may suddenly dry up, belt-tightening layoffs may loom, or strategic View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman