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17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Would Everfi Create Enough Impact? TPG Rise: Investment Result, Takeaways from the Rise Fund Show Hide Details Concepts Developing Impact Strategies Measuring and Accounting for Impact The Rise Fund: Impact Multiple of Money ESG... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

investment opportunity. Make investors feel that if they don't invest now, they are missing out on something big. Shereen Shermak COO of Dannce.ai, Founding Angel at TBD Angels Shereen Shermak COO of Dannce.ai, Founding Angel at TBD Angels Bio: Shereen is a founder of... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

particular job.10 Those early in their careers can glean important self-insight through careful and systematic introspection. People should seek out diverse experiences to facilitate and balance their development in multiple areas. This... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

industry?I took Strategy and Value Creation with Professor Benjamin Esty. The course is seen as a capstone that utilizes multiple Required Curriculum (RC), or first year, courses to help understand how to create value for companies. When... View Details

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

problems in the manufacturing plant often require the combined effort of multiple disciplines and stakeholders to be resolved. My experience has taught me the ways to work and engage with all levels of the organization to address the root... View Details

Research Summary

The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies

The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

11 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Valleydene provided Barford with the flexibility he needed to spend more time with his ailing wife (who died in 1991 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis) and six children. Beyond the boardroom, Barford has been associated in... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

linked with superior outcomes. While they are no guarantee of success, their combined presence sharply improves the odds that you'll make a good decision. Multiple Alternatives. When groups consider many alternatives, they engage in more... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

for. And that’s when the trouble began. Basically I changed the mission of the business from being a focused coffee and donut shop company to becoming a franchise business. Feeling that a 60-time multiple was extraordinarily intoxicating,... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Market Research Reports in General Databases

Research’. Type the name of the publisher in the 'Contributors' field. You can add multiple publishers to the search if desired. Add in keywords or fill in other fields of interest and click 'Search' to see relevant... View Details

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

of the inaugural India Climate IFC, students visited a semi-urban public healthcare facility which was outfitted with a full rooftop solar installation and multiple solar powered technologies provided by SELCO. SELCO (“Solar Electric... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

receive money conveniently. In order to use the service, the customer hands his money to the agent, plus a transfer fee (about 40 cents). Through a computerized process secured by multiple passwords and PINs, the agent transfers the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

together. “We were able to take these multiple dimensions and construct these styles that were not possible before,” Choudhury says. The researchers then looked for correlations between communications style and other aspects of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

areas: Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society Marketing Digital Transformation There are multiple ways for employees to learn. They can complete one... View Details

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

by a multiple of three. We believe that students who have worked with or for family businesses bring in a unique perspective of how such businesses operate and allow other students to think from the perspective of owners. We value ... View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP uses business cases that cut across View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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