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Inessa Lurye
urban issues such as housing, income equality, and sustainability,” after acquiring private-sector experience with an organization that “has an innovation arm working on alternative ways to create and deliver products, experiences, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
its serious subject matter. Alternately teasing and solemn - but unfailingly provocative - it is intended to push the boundaries of intellectual engagement in order to provide a deeper understanding of what the future will mean to all... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
Tim Westergren of Pandora and Evan Williams of Twitter. YouTube cofounder and former CEO Chad Hurley has called the book "an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error." A past recipient of the HBS student-voted award for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
Productivity will improve as the alternation of job assignments eliminates the 'indispensable' worker." Connie Luthy says, "I have practiced 'Just-In-Time' hiring ... in the pharmaceutical industry.... I have advised my client... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
Movement for Black Lives, and follow the organizations listed above on social media or subscribe to their newsletters to get invitations to take action. Consider supporting a campaign to redirect police funding to alternative community... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
of thousands of dollars on shares that may end up being worth a fortune—or nothing at all. This decision often needs to be made within 90 days of leaving a company. Some exercises may inadvertently subject shareholders to Alternative... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
financial principles to better communicate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Pay by August 14 $1,850 Certificate Alternative Investments Professors Victoria Ivashina, Randolph... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
actually released in 1995. The year brought no major new musical genre to generate album sales the way rap and alternative rock had in previous years. "Product returns from financially pinched retailers were very heavy last year,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
much more difficult and something that happens more slowly,” says Steinwender. “How those firms react may lead to a lengthening of the crisis.” When it came to recovery, Steinwender and Garicano again found that not all firms were created equal. Companies with View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
Online research is cheap, fast, and the wave of the future. Tools like SurveyMonkey allow non-expert users to create custom surveys in minutes. As an alternative to offline focus groups, custom online panels of consumers can be formed for... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
Implemented automated workflows for PC loaner requests. Migrated many support processes and legacy tools to high quality, cloud-based alternatives that reduce manual inputs and increase consistency, efficiency, and transparency. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
them and do simple maintenance, like cleaning their crucial navigation sensors. Another opportunity is alternative fuels. When cars propelled by electricity or hydrogen go mainstream, someone will have to build a nationwide fuel... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
of thinking about complex choices. They suggest that the decision-maker start by probing his or her objectives (including interests, fears, and aspirations) and use these reflections to help generate creative alternatives for evaluation.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
The key to group coaching success is that the job hunter gets an alternative to the more traditional approach of simply answering ads, sending out “cold call” letters and résumés, waiting for callbacks, or even paying large, up-front fees... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
alternative courses of action or alignment. And, says Ferracone, “it is an excellent communication tool to facilitate productive discussion between compensation committees and management, and between companies and their investors.” Asked... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process
encourages employees to bring their full selves to work and highlights the available support systems. Offer Alternative Application Processes Companies can also review their application processes to identify opportunities to be more... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
shelf?” When they dug deeper, Cohen and his colleagues found evidence that energy sector firms are making substantial investments in alternative energy projects. In particular, energy firms are significant global producers of electricity,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
with Anant Thaker (HBS MBA 2011) of the Boston Consulting Group and Howard Rudnick of the Tobin Project, Moss offers an alternative perspective: Perhaps we've been looking at the question the wrong way. Inequality And Making Decisions In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
PowerBar. The original Walkman. Coke and Pepsi. As the category evolves, however, the number of product alternatives within the category tends to grow exponentially. Today, PowerBar alone produces more than 40 different varieties of its... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
out, most people judge you and decide what to do based on how you are responding. How clear is your thinking, persuasive your analysis, comprehensive your consideration of alternative explanations and options, and creative and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman