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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
run the gamut. There is no one solution, but different solutions will appeal to different people. Q: Let's talk about prize-linked savings. What are these savings vehicles? Why are they so difficult to introduce in the United States? A:... View Details
- Blog
Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?
where you run up against gaps in your skills and knowledge. To overcome business challenges and continue to advance in the organization, you will need to build new abilities, expand your perspective, and strengthen your leadership skills.... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
probably require support, or at least training, if you run into problems. But if you are talking about a desktop operating system that is easier to use, the complementary good is not as valuable—it's more difficult to use an open source... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
regulation,” said Gupta. “At the same time, the MBA toolkit of leadership, running a business (interpreting accounts, evaluating investments, hiring, etc.), and decision-making has been really helpful in starting and operating... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard hats. "I want you to meet Kenny, he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS
partnerships with companies looking to hire and companies working on initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion; Run workshops and panels of relevant topics to women in tech; Help build community for the group through small group... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
answer is obvious. "Women executives have to be at least twice as good as their male counterparts to get to that level.” And Hugh Quick asked the possibly rhetorical question, “Could it be that some women are good at running things?”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
run in-house labs to reap the benefits. Referencing the methods and results of formal scientific research is enough to lift a patent’s value. Defining a product’s ‘science intensity’ Krieger, Watzinger, and Schnitzer categorized some 1.2... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
agile counterparts. Organizations might also pursue multiple paths simultaneously, varying the amount of time and effort on each stage. To be clear, moving too slowly is a major risk now. Spending a year or more developing a plan without concrete outcomes, and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
what is called the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which implies that the proportion of demand generated by taking business away from a competitor is the same, no matter which marketing activity is used. "These models get View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Harvard Business School
spans more than thirty years. Upon earning an MBA from HBS, Simons joined CBS New York, where he held several managerial positions. He concluded his 13-year run with the network as vice president of Sales and Marketing for the CBS... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to come up with a viable business... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
articles that journals don’t like, then you won’t get published in top journals and be an academic for long!” Research that targets a specific business problem runs the risk of appearing too narrow in focus to editors of general-purpose... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
customers, and society at large, without regard for how much it costs, with 90 percent of consumers stating that brands should be willing to suffer substantial financial losses to ensure the well-being and financial security of others. Those brands that do not View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
realized when we dug down and saw our competencies inside of Lycos," said Crown, "was that we knew a lot about starting, building and deploying businesses very quickly. "So we wrapped all those competencies together — everything we know about View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
knew more than others, even though the top management team had been in place for 20 years and had helped secure the father-son transition. The son felt the business could be run in a more profitable way. He was probably right, but the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
Like many industrial giants, the Umesh Modi Group reaches far, producing pharmaceuticals, selling cosmetics, and building steel. Modi added liquor and now runs Modi Illva, the company's four-year-old joint venture with Italian spirits... View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
from Harvard Medicine's website. Troy Ameen Troy Ameen has set his sights on becoming a surgical administrator, a profession he thinks will well prepare him to one day run an urban hospital. In such a position, this rising fourth-year... View Details