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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
MaterialsHarvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 510-091 How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
sales, profitability, and assets. Here we analyze firm characteristics shown by industry before and after liberalization and investigate how industrial concentration, the number, and size of firms of the ownership type evolved between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
an affiliate program manager might be paid a modest salary plus 10 percent of year- over- year growth in the size of the affiliate program. But consider the incentives of someone paid in that way. If there is fraud in the affiliate... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
of Soviet times were abandoned—and with them the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure that had been built and sustained by large Soviet subsidies. Western economists urged the Kazakh government to break up the collectives into privately owned farms of 200 hectares... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
the new program, "women executives long for the same kind of camaraderie and exchange that men can find with their peers in more informal settings." Among those in attendance was Jessie d'E. Bourneuf (MBA '75), then president of the King View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
of American occupation (1898-1918), we find that the implementation of these reforms was very slow. As a consequence, tenure insecurity increased over this period, and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure of the sales force would solve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Professor Bower, since 1970 you have articulated views on the resource allocation process and how it fundamentally shapes corporate strategy. Could you give us a brief overview of the resource allocation process? Bower: Organizations of any View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
movement has expanded awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace, regardless of a company’s size or status. In fact, after #MeToo, many companies saw a spike in the percentage of calls about sexual harassment coming in on their... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
the University’s distribution rate and the size of the endowment, which includes gifts from alumni and transfers from the School to the endowment reserve. In fiscal 2023, the distribution rate set by the University was 4.5 percent. The... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
The increase reflected the University's distribution rate and the size of the endowment, which includes gifts from alumni and transfers from the School to the endowment reserve. The endowment consists of more than 1,000 discrete funds... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
coated with chemicals to make analog film. Sales of materials for flat panel displays were ¥140 billion in 2006 (approximately $1.2 billion), with the market expected to double in size by 2009. The company is also expanding into cosmetics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
industry segments that depend on the NFL." Surveying the league's 32 franchises, Grubman observes that each has arguably become a global brand in its own right."The size and complexity of the local franchise as a business has exploded in... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
group size to vary. We find that children aged 9 and higher are better able to resist selfish impulses in public environments. Younger children, however, display no such effect. Further, we find self-control substantially impacted by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, and Julie Wulf Abstract—Using novel data on CEO time use, we document the relationship between the size and composition of the executive team and the attention of the CEO. We combine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
2004, DaVita acquired arch-rival Gambro Healthcare, whose 12,000 employees would nearly double DaVita in size once the integration is completed in fall 2005. Confident that the deal makes business sense but worried about potential adverse... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Unilever planned not merely to double the size of its business, but to do so while decoupling the company’s growth from its environmental footprint and increasing its social impact. In addition to defining a set of environmental goals,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
abroad, it will return to the United States, where Smith envisions installing an underwater turbine farm in a larger venue such as Long Island Sound. A deployment of that size would power not hundreds but thousands of households—the kind... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
Nevada, where Burning Man is hosted. We also provide infrastructure for the city. There has to be emergency services. There's, obviously, porta potties. There's a health center. And there's also law enforcement that we have to provide to make sure that a gathering of... View Details