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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
program, developed under the umbrella role Genzyme's corporate social responsibility, fits into its global competitive strategy. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910407-PDF-ENG Leading Teams Note Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
as entrepreneurs. Although historically there have been few, women are now seeing opportunities, and financing is becoming much more available. They previously saw that their path up the corporate ladder was not a particularly attractive route. Q: How does the course... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
company is that when we hire people, we always hire for attitude. We don’t hire for skills. We hire for attitude because we feel skills can be taught and trained. But if you have the wrong attitude, no matter how skillful you are, you’re not going to View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the data significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The model provides a good View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
hospital system in U.S. The hospital was inaugurated in February 2014, but there were open questions related to pricing of the procedures and the related target patient segment and volumes. Also, HCCI senior management realized the need to adapt the NH model developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
had previously successfully developed the landmark Xintiandi retail and entertainment district in Shanghai. Lo must decide if the opportunity is the right fit in terms of place, timing, government support, and market demand. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
appeared to be growing, the new Super 8 reflected the culture and identity of a firm originally rooted in film and consumer products. Sentiment aside, Clarke needed to decide if the new Super 8 fit into the company’s overall strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
CEO. Choosing a CEO is arguably the board’s most important function, and boards need to pay attention to candidates’ ethical fit as well as their business and technical skills. The case is also a reminder that society’s expectations for... View Details
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experience, and the School’s ongoing digital transformation. With the focus on longer-term planning, capital spending remained modest in fiscal 2023, declining 28 percent to $31 million. Dollars were allocated to a range of smaller projects, most prominently completing... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
mass infection in South Korea—a mass religious gathering, a call center, a dance fitness center, and, most recently, a night club. All of these instances took place in closed, confined indoor areas with limited ventilation and with people... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-005 Tony Lo, the CEO of Giant Manufacturing, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, finally realized that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers when even his wife complained to him that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
objectives of a laptop computer targeted at children of the developing world with the escalating content demands from the marketplace and the non-profit OLPC Foundation. It also had to fit the project into its company business model which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
steward ideal than to the agents described in agency theory. Stewardship theory is far less known and probably doesn't apply as much to most executives, but it seems to fit founders very well. Executive compensation provides one test of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
some success with three different patent-based ventures, for instance—and Darwall will see if she can find a subject that fits the bill. An HBS Outpost While research is the primary function of the CRC, there is also an opportunity and a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
the average forecast, and when they do, they can run counter to existing methods. On two publicly available datasets, we demonstrate that these new ensembles are easily fit to real forecast data and are more accurate than existing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman