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  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Short Takes

was to provide empirical data answering these questions." In the course of his research, Austin surveyed nearly ten thousand of the School's MBA and Executive Education graduates, held eleven focus groups with managers, interviewed more... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

annulled the merger—which the European Commission had approved two years earlier—after a group of independent music labels complained about the merger's effect on competition. While Sony and BMG were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Course Number 1235 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam or Paper Overview: This course explores the power of ownership in shaping company success, as well as how to be View Details
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

Watson Publication:In Effective Auditing for Corporates: Key Developments in Practice and Procedures, edited by Joe Oringel, 161-178. London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2012 Abstract In the wake of the recent financial crisis,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

1910. Black arrivals increased both the effort exerted by immigrants to assimilate and their eventual Americanization. These average effects mask substantial heterogeneity: while initially less integrated View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Off Your Shoes: One Man’s Journey from the Boardroom to Bali and Back by Ben Feder (MBA 1991) Radius Book Group A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

surprises, say Bazerman and Watkins, are a common form of leadership failure. "Predictable surprises happen when leaders had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential, even the inevitability, of major problems, but failed to respond with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans

the veterans group at the Kennedy School, Regan learned about The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role models to young people.... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

subordinate to the functions? Maybe you should organize by product, with separate units set up to serve specific markets. You play with the different combinations in your hands. How to decide ... This is the most obvious—and vexing—problem of organization design: View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

million patients each year, and expanding specialty pharmacy services, the company enables people, businesses and communities to manage health in more affordable and effective ways. CVS Health serves 5 million customers each day through... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

just by changing something minor in the onboarding process." Identity Experiments  In the field experiment, the researchers divided batches of new call agents into an individual identity group, an organizational identity group, and a control group. The control... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

Harvard Business School Case 815-078 Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group (B) The case builds on the earlier (A) case, which described the origins of the Turkish business group... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent Lineback reveal in Being the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

and companies better. Someone with a background and orientation towards building things can incorporate that knowledge into their work and get tremendously more effective as a founder or leader. In particular design thinking and... View Details
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

company's sources of advantage over time. The analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only on its design (its levers and how they relate to one another) but also, most importantly, on its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel