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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
during a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS. The startup employs a system for collecting reproductive cell samples from a tampon, which the customer sends to the lab for genomic analysis. The lab then provides... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- Web
Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
presentation is made to a component of the private equity firm investment committee. Project work is designed to be of mutual value to students and the PE partner. Students can list the projects and the PE firm on their resumes upon the... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia
really understand what people’s perspectives are. You have to have boots on the ground to fully capture what a customer wants.” She also valued working under pressure in a team. “In my old job, leadership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
is the secret sauce behind this new franchise? Two alumni on different sides of the process sum it up the same way: be true to the brand’s core value of creative, open-ended play. Movie producer Dan Lin (MBA 1999) got the idea for making... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA
detailed supervision, as outlined in the HBS Community Values and the MBA Honor Code — that the candidate is prepared to use this body of knowledge, skills, and techniques in a manner befitting a professional administrator and responsible... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
impartially among a range of views, faculty members debated the ramifications of this approach to course content and HBS pedagogy. Then, O&M Professor Michael C. Jensen's summary of the unit's views on the corporate objective function and performance measurement -... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
essay and coauthor a third in their contribution to the collection’s total of nine essays; the other six are written by experts on history, technology, and business. The book’s central message is that the country’s foundation and... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because of the supply-and-demand imbalance for... View Details
- Web
IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
launching the Service Delivery Improvement Plan initiative, TSS, in partnership with the IT Service Delivery Team (ITSD), began to generate solutions that would greatly improve overall service delivery and customer satisfaction. Among the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
that she had miscast herself in her own origin story: She wasn’t the starry-eyed tech founder, she was the architect and builder. “I realized that there needed to be someone else—the genius who had the vision to come up with the idea. But then, once they had it, I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
wireless, software, and semiconductors, to name a few - has put us in a very strong position. We are also fortunate to be able to draw on innovations from Bell Labs to find total solutions to meet our customers' needs. How has Lucent... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that corporate financing decisions do not... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
People are hired to deliver empathy, a sense of humor, and total devotion to Customers (always capitalized at Southwest), something that has produced intense loyalty from flyers. These are elements of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
value creation through holder identity and community formation, which has been explored in everything from NFT-based affinity networks to customer rewards programs from companies such as Starbucks. Ownership... View Details
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
provider of premium-priced products tailored to a particular customer segment, or you have to shoot for scale, using low prices and volume purchasing to attract a mass market and drive down your cost structure. Midfield has been... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
offered by the CMOS technology. And he committed additional resources only when the management team identified and began developing new markets. Rather than pour money into the initial framing, he helped managers learn to see precisely how new View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to offer Neutrall’s products there... View Details