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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Navigating Success in Volatile Times

attendees that their most important "customers" are the people in their lives, and Saturday evening's keynote speaker, New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd, underscored the need for courage, strength,... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • News

One School at a Time

back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
  • Supplement

ABB: Accountability Times Two (A)

By: Robert L. Simons
Describes the complexity of setting and reconciling performance targets in a global, matrix company. The president of the Finnish industry and rail transport company has received targets from two bosses--his regional superior and his business area superior. Each has... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Complexity; Multinational Firms and Management; Finland
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  • September 20, 2024
  • Article

It’s Time to Unbundle ESG

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; ESG Disclosure; Sustainability; Climate; Climate Finance; Climate Risk; Social Accounting; Investment; Governance; Safety; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry
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    Managing Human Assets

    The time has come for American managers to rethink the traditional relationship between management and workers. The personnel practices of the past are an obstacle today, blocking the higher productivity and quality levels your firm will need to succeed in the... View Details

    • 20 Aug 2014
    • News

    With No Time to Lose

    companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta. The meeting yielded more... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • August 2020 (Revised October 2020)
    • Exercise

    To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Student)

    By: Ashley Whillans and Liz Goldenberg
    Working professionals are often in the predicament of needing to make a choice between activities that will grant them more money or more time. Indeed, in large-scale representative panels of working adults, most respondents report feeling pressed for both time and... View Details
    Keywords: Time; Time-as Money; Money; Time Management; Decision Making
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    • September 2010
    • Supplement

    Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations (CW)

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
    This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
    Keywords: History; Management Practices and Processes; Activity Based Costing and Management; Learning; Outcome or Result; Financial Statements; Experience and Expertise; Adoption; Communication Technology; Knowledge Acquisition; Management Skills
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    • Jul 03 2020
    • Tout

    Managing Through Crisis

    • 10 Nov 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

    Researchers at Harvard Business School publish hundreds of studies around business management each year, often in collaboration with peers from other institutions. Here are insights collected from papers and journal articles published... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Oct 2017
    • News

    Take Time to Serve Others

    Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    This paper describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Market Timing; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Competitive Strategy
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    • July 1999 (Revised January 2000)
    • Case

    Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time

    By: Jan W. Rivkin and Jay R. Girotto
    In the wake of major competitive moves, CEO Tim Koogle and his senior team at Yahoo!, an Internet portal, must decide whether and how to adjust their strategy. Following deals between AOL and Netscape, Excite and @Home, Infoseek and Disney, and Snap and NBS, Yahoo!... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Industry Structures; Internet and the Web; Risk Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • 01 Oct 2021
    • News

    No Time Like the Present

    and cofounder of Cleanacwa, a nonprofit that works on water and sanitation in his homeland. Consistent with his focus on helping Africa manage its challenges and capitalize on its strengths, Delle is also supporting HBS’s Global... View Details
    • 12 Nov 2014
    • News

    Time to Restart Small, Medium Bank M&A

    • June 2021
    • Article

    Deals in the Time of Pandemic

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Caley Petrucci
    The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the period between signing and closing in M&A transactions. Transactional planners heavily negotiate the provisions that govern the behavior of the parties during this window, not only to allocate risk between the... View Details
    Keywords: Takeovers; COVID-19; Material Adverse Effect; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Pandemics
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    • October 2007
    • Case

    The AtekPC Project Management Office

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and John Hupp
    Presents one company's efforts to implement a project management organization, or PMO, and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues brought out in the case include defining the PMO's purpose and mission, the structure and governance of the PMO, and how to... View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Goals and Objectives; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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    • June 2013 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    Blackstone Alternative Asset Management

    By: Robin Greenwood, Luis M. Viceira and Jared Dourdeville
    This case explores reasons for Blackstone Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM's) growth from 2007-2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes evolving business models and value propositions... View Details
    Keywords: Hedge Fund; Fund Of Hedge Funds; Hedge Fund Industry Growth; Fund Of Hedge Funds Industry Growth; Evolving Business Models; Value Propositions In The Fund Of Hege Funds Industry; Business Model; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 09 Mar 2016
    • News

    Time for a shake-up at United Airlines

    • 06 Mar 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

    Summing Up Who Will Save Us From Our Work Habits? We have a problem in the workplace. Some of it is being forced upon us by forces in society. Some of it is of our own making. But we face increasing challenges in managing our work View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett