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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-025 Springfield Hospital One of the key roles of costing systems is to support the evaluation of performance and facilitate View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
negotiations between Hotamisligil, OTD, the new company, and the School of Public Health to establish appropriate licensing and sponsored research agreements. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
knowledge, and an appropriate public policy framework. At the broadest level, the history of globalization warns against easy assumptions on the linearity of globalization, as business historians have shown how the world globalized... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
satisfy the growing American consumer demand for lighting, appliances, and consumer electronics in the 1910s to 1920s as well as in the 1950s and 1960s. GE's top executives have shown a clear understanding of the leadership and managerial styles that were View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
began the global component, called FIELD 2, last October when they were divided into teams of six, assigned a global partner—one of 140 participating businesses and nonprofits—and challenged to develop a product or service appropriate for... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
instinct for choosing the right tools—Continental Airlines' Gordon Bethune, General Electric's Jack Welch, and IBM's Lou Gerstner are all examples. Others can use this framework to help select the most appropriate tools for their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
firms, is to adapt appropriately to market and institutional demands. Central to this challenge are decisions about how best to organize the expertise they marshal to compete. Expertise is organized at two levels: at a micro level through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
additional compensation across social category lines than it did within them. The results thus broach an ethical dilemma for managers: Is it appropriate to let mere social category lines interfere with profit maximization? Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
full-time, MBA appropriate job in the private sector. In this case, a full-time job is defined as working 35 hours or more per week with a projected tenure of 12 months or longer. Or, you are pursuing a fully self-funded entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
have been some suggestions that insurers should look back at their historical hospital spending and transfer a commensurate amount of money to hospitals during this crisis. There are different health care needs right now, and it is View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments generate appropriate returns for the firm. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
grandmother, I began a company with the tools I learned at HBS to serve other families like ours. I am committed to providing the best experience of care, with the most compassion, dignity, and safety, in whatever setting is appropriate... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
response to, varying market conditions. However, while the problems of balance-sheet liability and revenue recognition, and the related problems of income statement presentation, can be resolved by the application of DV/RV reasoning, this is not sufficient fully to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
very appropriate phrase, wilderness. It was. My wife's American, so we moved to the US early ’91. It was devastating. My whole life was spent being groomed to run this family media company. And now that was over. So what do you do now? I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
added that "with almost Œreal-time' information, business can now make appropriate decisions rather than guess." Second on the list was telecommunications, "a great facilitator, the pipeline that allows other innovations to happen (the... View Details