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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
they see three options: First, they could double down on the D2C side, which helps get the brand out there quickly, although it is subject to more competition and acquisition costs. The second option is to integrate with real estate... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated network, according to a new book... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Church on Sunday, Work on Monday
In Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life, Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan explore the gap that exists between Christian ideals and the realities of business life at a time when many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
cost of starting firms falls, this lowers the cost of the option, so you will take on higher option value projects. You will potentially take on more of them and focus less on governance in the early stages.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
strategic and general management issues facing service organizations as well as the management of service in manufacturing companies. The multidisciplinary unit focuses on three functions critical to the effective delivery of service:... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron, and Katherine Shonk (Basic Books) In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government, authors Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
“We believe, where political processes fail to come up with solutions for our society, equipping businesses with the right ideas is a very important aspect of dealing with sustainability issues. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for us to engage business leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
information technology for pedagogy; in teaching entrepreneurial management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
growth proceeds will go to the lenders, leaving the owners with more stress, work, [and] risk—and probably no more income. Worst case, the launch fails and takes the company with it. —Peter Warner (MBA 1988) The best option would be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
Courtesy Pentagram Graphic designers have created some of the world’s best-known logos, from Coke to Mercedes to McDonald’s. Yet their role in establishing a company’s identity is not always understood or valued by senior management. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
adverse effects of a housing price bust that would harm the financial system. How does this approach differ from the mortgage guarantees provided by Fannie and Freddie and the reform option with government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
Doing good or doing well. Usually, new HBS graduates have to pick one or the other. But now, both possibilities — bundled together and available after graduation — are a viable option for MBAs seeking jobs in the nonprofit and public... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have — women generally want fewer than men — half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and the... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because of the supply-and-demand imbalance for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
market-segmentation scheme for reconfiguring your offerings to reduce costs while delivering new value to customers; lessening innovation risks with strategic experiments and alliances with customers; and appealing to increasingly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
Goodness, draws on research from the fields of philosophy, psychology, behavioral research, and the concepts of effective altruism to outline a set of actions that we can embark on immediately to make next year better than last. Start... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
our classmates took off her shoes and—WHOA—eyes burning, nose on fire, it was the worst stench you could imagine! When we asked her why she didn’t do anything, she said the current options stunk (pun intended); they either didn’t work,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
safe and effective vaccine. But the ultimate goal is even more ambitious than bringing an end to the current pandemic as quickly as possible. True success, say those involved, will be building the infrastructure necessary to prevent the... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the combination of a desire to hold out for the best. And it's also this belief that option value is really sort of valuable in and of itself. That combination not only hurts you because you become... View Details