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- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
accomplished, including more freedom for business, more immigration, and big bets by the government and industry to meet imposing infrastructure needs. Ron Kurtz said, “I am concerned that we are facing a decline in the size and spending... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
its stores and its supply chain, lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, safer products for customers and manufacturers, and better treatment of its workers. The company promoted the idea that its size gave it significant influence in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
scale very well, and it costs nearly as much to serve the ten millionth member as the millionth. Little networks like LiveJournal exist, but they don't grow into Facebook any more than beetles grow to the size of elephants—bigness... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
highly-portable cross between the iPhone and the old laptop. Language has been condensed with the size of tech devices and the continued clumsiness of our thumbs. Along with it, some fear that there is a growing inability or unwillingness... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
services and software space has been consistently strong. Students are also joining technology companies that overlap in retail, heath care, and other direct to consumer industries as they find roles in companies that align directly with their specific interests. There... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Blog
Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
experimented with changes such as reducing the size of discussion groups for better engagement, we found new ways for participants to network virtually, and we took advantage of increased access to case protagonists due to travel... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
professors, and your classmates to meet people at those companies. Businesses of all sizes are now setting ESG targets and attempting to transition to a net zero future. This has caused the consulting field to also shift and take on many... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure of the sales force would solve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Professor Bower, since 1970 you have articulated views on the resource allocation process and how it fundamentally shapes corporate strategy. Could you give us a brief overview of the resource allocation process? Bower: Organizations of any View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
movement has expanded awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, regardless of a company’s size or status. In fact, after #MeToo, many companies saw a spike in the percentage of calls about sexual harassment coming in on their... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
the University’s distribution rate and the size of the endowment, which includes gifts from alumni and transfers from the School to the endowment reserve. In fiscal 2023, the distribution rate set by the University was 4.5 percent. The... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
The increase reflected the University's distribution rate and the size of the endowment, which includes gifts from alumni and transfers from the School to the endowment reserve. The endowment consists of more than 1,000 discrete funds... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
coated with chemicals to make analog film. Sales of materials for flat panel displays were ¥140 billion in 2006 (approximately $1.2 billion), with the market expected to double in size by 2009. The company is also expanding into cosmetics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
industry segments that depend on the NFL." Surveying the league's 32 franchises, Grubman observes that each has arguably become a global brand in its own right."The size and complexity of the local franchise as a business has exploded in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
A: We found that it was the relative percentage of their money that people spend on others—rather than the absolute amount—that predicted their happiness. In the bonus study described above, for example, the size of the bonus that people... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
the role third parties play was inadequate in describing the processes at work in the highly specialized CEO market. The size of the candidate pool, for instance, is often underestimated. If you believe most search firms, in fact, it's a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
in 1979, had a budget of only $2 million, and many of Barry's peers questioned her decision to leave one of the world's most prestigious institutions to join a much smaller player in the global economy. "On day one I had to order my own pencils," she recalls with a... View Details
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
time and effort in conserving the mangroves that reside on of its headquarters land just outside of Mumbai. India has an interesting CSR policy, which came up a few times in our conversations with companies. In 2013, India enacted a law requiring that companies above a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
the way businesses get paid, we can change the US economy. Sometimes people look at me like I’m a sandwich short of a picnic when I say that, but I know this can be done. We are on a mission to enable businesses of all sizes to have... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and micro-VC firms whose relatively small size translates into a willingness to proceed at a pace and scale that are sustainable over time. She has also won a fair bit of grant money and is currently... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand