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09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

said, are so different than what we’re grappling with now. You know, that Wayne Gretzky quote comes to mind about skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is. And things are changing so rapidly. And it's fundamentally different.... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

those arrangements vulnerable to mounting player discontent, Marlins CFO Mariner's comments on baseball's situation are sobering for the other leagues as well: "The economics of baseball are fundamentally tenuous because there is no cap... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

fundamental to life, but light — especially the kind that comes at the flip of a switch — is easily taken for granted. But not by Jana Kirlin Brownell (MBA ’83), CEO of the Kirlin Company, a Detroit-based commercial-lighting firm.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

fundamentally different than in the past—it’s almost a new social contract that’s being developed around solving some of our most pressing challenges.” Having found his life’s purpose, Chertavian is making a significant contribution to... View Details

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

upsell existing customers to other products in the firm's portfolio. Q: Now let's discuss the challenge of product pricing. How should businesses go about conducting a profitability analysis? A: Choosing a price for your product is one of the most View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsApple Inc., 2008 Harvard Business School Case 708-480 In January 2007, three decades after its incorporation, Apple Computer shed the second word in its name and became Apple Inc. With that move,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

Advertising today has to be so entertaining, interesting, and useful that you won’t want to live without it. That’s a fundamentally different premise than the one advertising was founded on: I can pay money and put myself in front of you.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

risen to economic and business prominence in many industries. This paper first lays out a simple micro-founded framework that aims to organize academic and managerial thinking about MSPs. It argues that any MSP performs one or both among two View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2018
News

“A Shout Through Time”

proud and... happiness. This was really confirmed by how the family Perzyk collaborated to all this event. Perzyk: It taught me that people are fundamentally kind, and that's something that bears repetition. Not just for this moment in... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

not want to confront, because these tires greatly diminished the need for replacements. And since the replacement market was the only place they could make money, this meant the end of profitability unless there was a fundamental change... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Do Good: Eat Chocolate

even more fundamental reason: “I have a deep connection with candy,” she adds with a laugh. The company’s current product mix features dark chocolate–covered cacao nibs (intense little hits that weigh in at one to two calories each) and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

reviewed the past few years of dot.com madness, chaotic markets, and companies thrown asunder. Stevenson said that business is changing in fundamental ways and business leaders better start changing too. Characteristics of this new world... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Shaila Ittycheria

fear? Suddenly, I realized that the role of a manager had many more levels than I had expected. You're more than a voice for yourself or your corporation. Sometimes, you have to speak out on fundamental human needs. Beyond corporate... View Details

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Alex Furleigh

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was ready for a change. Having spent my entire career before business school in operations—helping organizations do better with the resources that they have—I realized that I was lacking skills in how to View Details

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

presentations by key players in business and finance. Compustat Compustat (United States) and Global Vantage (international) contain fundamental financial and price data for active and inactive publicly traded... View Details

Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

activities to achieve sustainable customer growth. The course explores the fundamentals of customer value, including strategies for customer acquisition, retention, and development. By leveraging customer analytics tools and technologies,... View Details

Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

course is organized around two modules. The first module focuses on the restructuring of debt – and provides a foundation to understand the fundamentals of corporate restructuring and then applies these tools to explore the many offensive... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

New Releases

for opportunities to explore as well as reacting to problems to be solved. Says Raiffa, "Smart Choices is based on the premise that quality decision-making is a fundamental and valuable life skill that can shape and influence in a... View Details

01 Oct 2013
News

Banking on Africa's Future

development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point in our development. There's no reason that we can't apply to Africa the... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Porter Course Goes Abroad

reviews at INCAE and SSE-Riga have been overwhelmingly favorable. “There is intense student interest in taking a course that covers the fundamentals of competitiveness,” says Arturo Condo (DBA '00), a professor and associate dean at... View Details