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- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
forget more than 80% of the information they were taught within 90 days. To increase retention and effectiveness, companies should offer reps additional training at times of need, provide them with access to supplemental material that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
how and why sales materially affects each value component. The main reason companies invest in new projects and infrastructure, for example, is almost always to help them acquire or retain customers, says Cespedes. “We don’t do it for its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
foreign firms. In the United States, government officials have attempted to shift food-safety efforts to prevention with the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011. One result: Produce is now subject to preventative controls, including more raw View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest fundamental risk but are relatively illiquid and have substantial transitory price volatility. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20288 Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
him, he and his research team ended up with enough material for a three-part case. Part A opens in June 2007, when the newly appointed Carroll faced a spate of fatalities at the Rustenburg mines. (Anglo American Platinum, which runs the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5 industrial parks in China; 5 R&D and manufacturing bases in America, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
major DRAM memory chip makers like Samsung and Hynix in Korea, and Powerchip in Taiwan have already stopped quoting prices until they can assess the impact of the earthquake on their supply chains. Anisotropic conductive film is a key View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_16/b4174076731775.htm?chan=magazine+channel_business+views Cases & Course Materials Foxwoods: Turning Data into Insights in the Hospitality Industry Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
derives from history, memory and culture. Ukraine Is Divided Ukraine, second only to Russia in material indicators of power in the region, initially pursued a policy of radical economic autonomy from Russia. But it did not sustain its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
and store managers who had the freedom to source materials unique to their marketplace. In his zeal to increase short-term earnings, Nardelli got rid of the customer advisers and centralized procurement while standardizing store... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
goals, emphasize their strengths, give to others, and empathize with their own troubles through self-compassion. A second group was given educational materials about how to improve their mental well-being—the equivalent of handing people... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s program of affordable payments... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-031.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 815-057 HGRM (B): Launching Hoxell, a New IT Venture No abstract available. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the superportable market seemed the right choice for the Kittyhawk. But it wasn't. Kittyhawk did not succeed in either the ultrathin laptop or in the PDA market. When the PDA market failed first to materialize in the early 1990s—the... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
"General Doriot selected the name Manufacturing because he believes this activity is the hard core of our great industrial strength and one of the foundations of our business system....He believes that one can find great creative satisfaction in the changing of raw... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Abstract Financial statements are the basis for a wide range of business analysis. Managers, securities analysts, bankers, and consultants all use them to make business decisions. There is strong demand among business students for course View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
co-developed with the Business and Environment Initiative. SIPs are an important way for faculty to build out and test new materials and themes. As Professor Macomber said at the outset, “we don’t yet know the answers to many of the... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
"General Doriot selected the name Manufacturing because he believes this activity is the hard core of our great industrial strength and one of the foundations of our business system....He believes that one can find great creative satisfaction in the changing of raw... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
records and special collections materials throughout the digital stewardship lifecycle. He also collaboratively develops Harvard Library-wide strategy for stewardship of born-digital materials. His research focuses on integrating... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced materials find centers of excellence in a number of emerging ecosystems. The quality of STEM education as well as the government support for basic R&D can create opportunities to found... View Details