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Roger B. Smith

investing heavily in technological automation and robotics, and ridding the company of its risk-averse bureaucracy. Though these changes struggled to earn consistent profits for GM, Smith was nonetheless credited with putting it back on... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

coursework, unique team activities with a diverse global network, and a capstone project that applies the program’s learnings. 6 months 5-6 hours per week 4 Courses plus a capstone project Self-Paced This course earns you a Credential of... View Details

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

digital platforms' unique properties, opportunities, and risks, and develop scalable strategies that drive growth and deliver a competitive advantage. 5 weeks 6-7 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course View Details

John R. Simplot

utilized government funding to build a fertilizer empire, gaining 15% of the market in 1968. Simplot’s other achievements included the creation of processes to de-hydrate potatoes and freeze dry french fries, the latter of which earned... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Michel C. Bergerac

Bergerac devoted his energies to increasing the distribution of the company’s core cosmetics lines, which were suffering at the hands of fierce competition. Marketing and advertising schemes became more elaborate but paid off for Revlon, as View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

John M. Hiebert

a period of international expansion, building plants across Latin America, Asia, Europe and Africa. When Hiebert became president in 1955, net sales were at a level of $167 million with earnings of $30 million, and had risen to levels of... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

27 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

Literature This paper brings together recent findings in the academic literature on the prevalence of various personality traits among entrepreneurs and their impact on venture performance. Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship Why do workers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
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MBA Poker World Series

taking home $24,822 and a $15,000 watch, and automatically earning a $10,000 seat at this summer’s World Series of Poker. Some sixty HBS students took part in the weekend competition. The event also had a fundraising component, which this... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

organization, using economic analysis as a tool for understanding business structures and transactions. A Discussion of "Letting the 'Tail Wag the Dog'": The Debate over GAAP versus Street Earnings Revisited Authors:Mark T.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

Arden, Avon and Revlon as well as imported goods. She also invested in several new distribution centers throughout New York and built a high-tech communications system to handle the increasingly large volume of orders. By the late 1980s, Lillian Vernon Corporation was... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Digital Marketing & AI Workshop Course Number 1995 Lecturer Jacob Cook Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Overview This hands-on EC course covers the fundamentals of modern digital marketing, including driving traffic, View Details

15 Nov 2016
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Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector

Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) It was the “opportunity to be part of something bigger than myself” that drew Rebecca Greenbaum (MBA 2017) to the US Naval Academy. After graduating and View Details

18 Aug 2015
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New HBS Fund Chairs

George School, and Buckingham Friends School. At HBS, they have been regular reunion attendees, and Jones has served as a class fundraising leader during both reunion and non-reunion years, recently chairing their class’s 25th Reunion Campaign. Garrett View Details

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

significant loss of benefits and spending,” says Kluender, who coauthored the recent working paper Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Employment and Earnings with HBS research associate Calvin Jahnke; Kyle... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Apr 2019
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Alvarez-Bjelland to Receive Harvard Medal

receive her medal during May’s Commencement Day activities. The Harvard Gazette announcement notes that she was awarded Radcliffe College’s highest undergraduate honor and served as a resident tutor at Kirkland House while earning her... View Details

August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
Case

Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry

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21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

of about 25 years before being scrapped, are ordered through shipyards and take two or three years to build. About 10 percent of the fleet is bought and sold on the secondary market. For the study, Greenwood and Hanson focused on the View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

01 Oct 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

Virginia L. Davies (115th AMP) is a vice president at Goldman Sachs. She is a former vice president at the Bank of Montreal and previously worked for the Canadian Department of Justice. A native of Toronto, Davies attended Trinity College and View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Bounce Back from a Blunder

As she was building Big Think, Brown was wary of painting herself into a corner that she couldn’t manage her way out of. “When I’d share earnings and business updates with the board, I had an acute sense that I had to be authentic. I... View Details

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

managers would have to explain to their investors why earning a negative 2 percent return would make sense as opposed to either investing or disgorging that cash to shareholders. The definition of "excess cash holdings" will be... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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