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  • January 2025
  • Supplement

Negotiating with Data: Analytics FC (B)

By: Jillian Jordan and Livia Alfonsi
Analytics FC was a UK-based sports consultancy that focused on international football (soccer), leveraging cutting-edge data-analytic techniques to support clubs, federations, and players. In 2022, Alex Greenwood, an elite female defender, approached the company for... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Gender; Analytics and Data Science; Reputation; Value Creation; Consulting Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the Activity-Based Costing system... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 07 May 2021
  • News

From Dutch Tulips to Internet Stocks, How to Spot a Financial Bubble

  • 26 Jul 2013
  • News

Prince William’s Charming Choice to Take Leave

  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

Lagos Business School-Pan African University. Robin Kibuka, an adviser in the Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund, said, "Globalization is a force for development, but clearly it is a force for development that will... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

customer loyalty management initiative, in and of itself, will overcome basic shortfalls in product/service delivering in a competitive situation." Robin Clark pointed out that: "Neither view is completely right or wrong. I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Remix

founded by Professor Robin Ely, incorporated questions about sexual harassment in the Life and Leadership after HBS survey for the first time in 2018, although it had been administered every three years... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

attaining quotas; and (3) quarterly bonuses help improve performance of the weak performers by serving as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 24 May 2010
  • News

Doctoral Awards for Excellence in Mentoring

  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

shows, however, the idea that highly educated women are "opting out" is more media myth than a reality, at least among the School's own graduates. "Life and Leadership After HBS," released on Thursday and discussed in a session with Professor View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
  • May 2025
  • Case

RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement

By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Sarah Mehta
Set in 2024, this case explores the Lifetime Income Strategy (LIS), a novel retirement product launched by aerospace and defense company RTX in 2012. Aiming to embed the security of a traditional pension within a 401(k) plan, the LIS allowed participants to secure a... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Compensation and Benefits; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Labor; Retirement; Society; Adoption; Aerospace Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Virginia
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  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

leave for home by 5:30 p.m.? How did HUL develop a cheaper, better product to beat its competitor, Nirma? What do Taj Hotels, HDFC, HUL, L&T, and BPCL have in common? They are the win-win corporations! Based on over a decade of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

indicated that the actual number of women in the industry grew by several hundred in that five-year period, but the percentage of women in the industry did not grow. We also discovered that there was significant attrition of managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

values by sharing stories about their institutions. Indeed, they have discovered that pastors of so-called megachurches publish an unusually large number of books, not only to connect to church members, but to spread the message to an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • May 2020
  • Teaching Note

Baskits Inc.

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 217-001. Robin Kovitz (MBA 2007) acquired Baskits, a Canadian gift basket company, in October of 2014. The business was highly seasonal with two-thirds of its sales occurring in November and December. Baskits dealt with its seasonality... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Performance Improvement; Canada
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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-031413-091305?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life By: Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Work/life... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

as to why people accept cheating by others. Our results indicate that the effect is due at least in part to the failure to notice that unethical behavior is occurring when the change is gradual rather than abrupt. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

employees sit through training and attest that they understand the rules, but failing to assess the effectiveness of their compliance programs, or doing so with faulty metrics. The authors explain how we reached this sorry state—and how we can remedy it. Firms should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne