Business Evaluation - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

evaluation of the ideas introduced to see if any of the business models could be applied to a different vertical. That allowed us to be exhaustive in our options and would also ensure that the best industry... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

rational thinking. It enhanced my confidence, so that even as a physician, I would be able to compete in business and make lifelong learning a passionate experience." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Governor, The Peres Center for Peace Member,... View Details

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees. Recent research from Harvard Business School indicates that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

In so doing, we gain insight into how a company can build an operations-based advantage. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

solution What’s to be done? Nick C. suggested that ‘Some mechanisms can be so suffocating and can fall into the ‘over governed and under led’ bucket, others are so loose as to be undetectable and easily worked around. One perspective that might be helpful here is to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

platform for local fashion commerce. Oliver Segovia needs to evaluate where AVA should go next and answer some complicated personal questions. The case considers issues related to e-commerce platforms, diaspora-based international... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

evaluate business development opportunities. Driven by cash needs, they may call this "experimentation," but in effect they tell salespeople to "go forth and multiply!" By selling to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

interests of vulnerable or disenfranchised consumers are protected. Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in substance, the papers represent the sole major work on the subject to date. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of View Details

04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

insufficient labor levels, which, in turn, degrades profitability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-040.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCompass Box Whisky Company Harvard Business School Case 108-032 Compass Box... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source of praise in the evaluation of governance by rating agencies that provide... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog

evaluation of others’ capability, communicating that vision, gathering and considering feedback, overseeing implementation, and responding to the unexpected. Making Difficult Decisions places particular emphasis on frameworks that help... View Details

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

identify fairly reliable predictions from the guesses." Others identified people as the weak point in the process. Adam Hartung commented that " everyone should be evaluating trends and making forecasts they use to guide... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Feb 2021
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

Policies can also be related to how decisions are made and how team members communicate with one another. Evaluate how your meetings allow different opinions or feelings to be voiced, or not, and then take action to create safe and... View Details

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

organization and to evaluate the models presented. Students may work with a data file with several years of historical data or they may work with the model description and output results in the case. Purchase this case:... View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice president and general manager, with profit-and-loss... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

the students, enrolled last fall in one of three sessions of Harvard Business School's elective "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, found the possibilities intriguing. They were having fun. But then Sahlman, who was having as much... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

In his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda addresses the question of whether leaders create history or are created by it. In this excerpt from Chapter One, he... View Details

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

face. More than 1,500 MBA students at Harvard Business School have experienced these groups since 2005, as well as participants in executive education courses and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders. View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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