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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54267 February 6, 2018 Harvard Business Review What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like? By: Huckman, Robert S. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
self-confidence as well as his authority with his subordinates and peers. As hard as the CEO tried to persuade him to reconsider and stay, the manager felt so demoralized that he was determined to leave. A new CEO must be willing to share... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
that are easier to specify: computer software (offline-to-online ratio $0.99); health and beauty products ($0.93); music/video products ($0.83); and books ($0.68). 3 Ample evidence suggests that current B2C sites are unable to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
people’s lives, not only job performance but family matters, health issues, disappointments. The most difficult issues often involve life outside the School. What accomplishments are you proudest of? When we started out ten years ago,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
documenting quality grassroots music from all around the world, has greatly enhanced its operational efficiency, a key to its competitive health as a small but highly regarded independent label. Knutson, who still keeps in touch with his... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
machines became more efficient. Then we moved, starting around 1970 to the area of the head—the IQ. And we used to think, incorrectly, that the smartest person made the best leader, which we know now is not correct. Today, you have to lead with your heart as View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
experiences of several companies, the authors illustrate the dangers of conforming to market pressures for unrealistic growth targets. They argue that an overvalued stock, by encouraging overpriced acquisitions and other risky, value-destroying bets, can be as damaging... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
an outsourcing firm complete radiological reads for hospital customers. We find that customer-, domain-, and technology-specific experience—as compared to other experience-leads to improved productivity. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By: John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
showed leader performance in the summer field training environment is predicted by Big Five extroversion, hardiness, and a trend for social judgment. During the academic period context, leader performance is predicted by mental abilities as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's ecosystem. This transformation is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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1.4.14 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy | MBA
possible. Registration will require providing information about the planned event and agreeing to abide by the School's policies and guidelines (e.g., for use of space) and its Community Values. The School will make all decisions regarding the time, place, and manner... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Sandberg (MBA 1995) and HP president and CEO Meg Whitman (MBA 1979) as well as entrepreneurs such as Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), who cofounded the social marketing software developer Wildfire in 2008 (selling the 350-plus employee firm to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
responsible to social interests, and we’ll have to respond to that in some way. This will be especially important because humanity faces some urgent problems. How, for instance, do we deal with sustainability and the anxiety that people have about the environment? How... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson