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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are still experimental. The firm’s partners are pleased with their preliminary returns and the deal flow they’ve been able to cultivate, in part by empowering... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
proportion of their rising incomes, in marked contrast to Americans, who in recent years have saved almost none at all. Chinese corporations save an even larger proportion of their soaring profits. So plentiful are savings that, for the first time in centuries, the... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
an unknowledgeable, unsophisticated person with no analytics of a certain set type that you need to make decisions provided. We had no investment committee. People just lined up in front of my desk as if I was King Solomon. I thought that... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
influence firm boundaries. We then examine the evidence, using a unique dataset to construct firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries. In line with the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
line managers have a significant informational advantage over headquarters and when there are few interdependencies (or "synergies") between divisions. Investment centers—profit centers in which unit managers are allowed to make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Ventures. Forces students to grapple with the nature of financial risk in the start-up firm and assess the prospective risks and returns to a lender to such a firm. To reach a perspective on these issues, students need to assess the existing pro-forma cash View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
resources furnished by its partners. Receptivity in turn portrays how organizational capabilities and the quality of ties to partners facilitate flows of network resources. We propose that the interplay of these three mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
more demanding. Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208045 'Shad' Process Flow Design Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 608-072 Provides detailed instructions to prepare for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Roche Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Innovating in Health Care General Management, Technology & Operations Management Regina Herzlinger , Ben Creo Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture Marketing Tomomichi... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
Teams draft channel. All parties will also be dialled into a conference call that will last the duration of the draft. Picks will be announced over the call. If the Microsoft Teams channel is not working, teams can also use the conference call View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
make the font, where to put the prices on the menu, and what level of descriptions we should have, whether we should have pictures on the menu or not, we’ve experimented with other aspects of the service model, how we should make the food, whether we should do it in a... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
some tips on surviving.” Among the lessons she learned that helped her and her 103-year-old mother cope: you must fight the despair by exercising your mind, keep your emotions in check by taking the long view, and stay connected to others. “The through View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
even be adversarial because for every cent that Mobil reduced the price of gasoline to the dealer, to reduce the dealer's cost of goods sold, one cent would be subtracted from Mobil's top line (revenues). This old strategic view put Mobil... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.” That’s the pitch Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999) and her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
other.” It’s unfortunate that the bad guys employ best practices. But why not follow the leader? “We’re not going to occupy Berlin and everything simply goes away. Cyberdefenses must be part of business.” —Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988) Reinforce the Front View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai