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20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

certain amount of in-office work while the pandemic is raging can unintentionally penalize people who are immunocompromised or who have immunocompromised people in their household. On the individual level, managers should work with employees to address their View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

renowned HBS case method . Admissions Criteria and Process: We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational... View Details

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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

understand which programs will run during a certain time. Our Program Schedule is a useful way to see the full portfolio of programs in a specific subject area and provides an overview of our full year of programming. As a team, we're... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

attempted to organize business education around specific industries such as banking, transportation, merchandising, mining, and lumber. The third model—increasingly adopted by the 1930s, and still the basis of the business school... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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and expertise with this advanced certificate. Need Help? Frequently Asked Questions Get answers to your questions about admissions, grading, and more. Request More Information Learn more about specific programs, or sign up for news and... View Details

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HBS Cases | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

years, HBS faculty have written many HBS cases about the finance industry, including cases specifically on Lehman Brothers. Most of the Lehman Brothers cases were written in the late 1980s to 2000s and provide insight into such issues as... View Details

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

big-picture questions, as well as the basics, such as, What is a mutual fund? The app also helps women invest to reach specific goals and offers regular content through the LXME blog, hitting on topics like where, and with whom, one... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“I’m really attracted to its mission to help children grow smarter, stronger, and kinder – especially the kinder part in this current age.” Although she hasn’t discussed specific projects yet, Mizuho will serve as Director of Strategy for... View Details

January 2024
Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred

Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Strategic Planning; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Retail Industry; United States; Arizona

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04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

specific knowledge," and emphasis on "more variables [that] enter into people's choices than just value maximizing." Don Cameron thinks that "The problem with research is not the research itself, but what is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

in the alarm clock market since the 1950s, when General Electric-Telechron started selling clocks with snooze buttons. "For some reason, we had relegated the alarm clock to be a low-involvement, low-cost item with no emotional involvement, albeit with a very View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

to their peers. Asked at dinner whether the students had been specifically assigned to market to their peers, Brown laughed and shook her head. “The flaw is that who these students are now is not who they will be at 50,” Brown said. “Yet,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

27 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance

Keywords: by Claire Senot, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward & Anita L. Tucker; Health

October 2021
Article

Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza

The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details

Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Programs; Consumer Behavior; Analysis

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06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

interesting scenarios occur when there are asymmetries—important differences of motivation or skills. Asymmetries of motivation occur when one firm wants to do something that another firm specifically does not want to do. Asymmetries of... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

industry like drug development, it’s not like you can just switch from one disease to another disease,” she says. While R&D-intensive ventures can shift the application of their underlying technology, Shu continues, the fact they are formed around View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

unique opportunity. By requiring the programming to virtual, we’ve already been able to go national, involving teams from west coast schools and across the country! What was the program like, and what specific resources did you get access... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

companies to build generic solutions for customers across industries. But for challengers, the more they can focus on solving core business problems, the more successful they will be. They can understand customer needs deeply and customize product features based on... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

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have a specific question about one of our programs, or are curious to learn more about what our learners are up to, explore these additional resources: Frequently Asked Questions Student Stories Blog Want to know more? If you still... View Details

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