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17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

efficiency on both sides and accelerating the energy transition. PARTICIPANTS - SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRACK Lokale - Farand Anugerah (MBA 2025) - Address stunting, empower community with organic fruit farming, and meet urban demand... View Details

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

requiring companies to disclose information around their carbon emissions—and also around other efficiency factors such as water,” she said. “As consumers and as shareholders of companies, we deserve more information.” Those in attendance... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

"The experience of technology is inherently paradoxical," says Fournier. "People want it and feel they need it but they also recognize that it can create more work while making things more efficient or make them feel stupid while putting... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

compromise the health of the entire ecosystem. Loose coupling: Embrace mobility and flexibility. The heart of operating strategy for a niche player is to leverage the broad-based efficiencies offered by connecting up with several players... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

the data in question removed. Retraining can be incredibly costly for modern generative models, and so they develop techniques that can efficiently “unlearn” a target set of training examples, without having to retrain from scratch. The... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

CIOs Create and Communicate Value by Richard Hunter and George Westerman (DBA ’03) (Harvard Business Press) The authors recommend that to combat the IT-as-cost mindset, CIOs use IT to create three kinds of value — value for the money (the IT department operating View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the development of a more View Details

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

the efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups' operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

make companies more efficient when public markets are largely flat, they said. According to Nikos Stathopoulos (HBS MBA '95), a partner in Apax Partners, which was founded thirty years ago, "If you look at what drives the sources of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

shows a lack of perspective ... While it may be true that the cycle of change is faster today than before and companies have to adapt to it more efficiently and quickly, it would be unwise to submit ourselves to the ideal of creative... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

genuine concern, as is the efficiency of using established distribution systems designed for inter-store delivery to also package and ship thousands of small orders to individual consumers. More important, the substantial losses these... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

both make mistakes and have many cognitive biases around investing. Some of the most common mistakes – particularly for those at public companies – include: Holding onto Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) for too long. Some employees mistakenly think there are tax View Details

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

the circumstances leading up to the Boeing Company's decision to spin-off its Wichita Division. This case is intended to be taught with two notes: "On the Use of Capital Efficiency Metrics," HBS No. 612-034, and "Modularity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Innovation at Moog Inc.

By: Brian J. Hall, Ashley V. Whillans, Davis Heniford, Dominika Randle and Caroline Witten

This case focuses on the challenges of incentivizing innovation within Moog, an engineering company based in New York state that designs and builds guidance systems for space, air, and land-based travel. The case enables students to grapple with the challenges of using... View Details

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11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

and a global business unit head, and has recently returned to a straight-ahead global business unit reporting structure. "There are never-ending tradeoffs between creating global efficiencies through a more centralized structure and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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