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- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
nationwide office supplies superstore, she recalled: I'm not a good example of how to manage your career. I've just been willing to raise my hand several times for new opportunities. I've taken a lot of what others would perceive to be... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
leverage multiple CPUs across multiple compute nodes. For this to work, your script or code must be parallelizable -- it can be broken into parts that can execute independently. This is often the case with for loops or functions that can... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
Firestone's bottom-up capital budgeting process functioned flawlessly, quickly converting Ford and General Motors' demands into concrete commitments to radial production capacity. In a November 1972 Executive Committee meeting,... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
values. Please see the Stata manual entry for memory for more information. R In R, the mem_used() function of the pryr package can inform your variable usage. Please see the http://adv-r.had.co.nz/memory.html (by Hadley Wickham) for more... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
demands of consistent quality, innovative design, supply logistics, and the need for superior customer service, and it's easy to understand why David A. Birnbaum (HBS MBA '74), a private jeweler, would sound this cautionary note:... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Japanese company's equity. It then concentrated on enhancing its functional capabilities in product development, production, and marketing. These learned capabilities permitted it to enter related electronic commercial, industrial, and... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
for Managers is an 8-week, 60-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Economics for Managers dives into fundamental economic principles like supply and demand, cost, markets, competition and differentiation.... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
vendors could disrupt supply chains, further hurting the business and destroying value. This potential problem is troubling to a number of bankruptcy scholars, including my colleague Mark Roe at Harvard Law School. So, is this bleak... View Details
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committees. He has also functioned as the principal financial planner and CFO of numerous businesses seeking to expand their ventures. His early career included corporate positions with General Foods, Kraft, and Sealtest Breyers Ice... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is sold by a separate, independent firm, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Erika Osterling
Erika (HBS '09, ITESM '00) brings 20 years of experience as an operating leader and advisor. She has spent most of her career within Energy & Industrial, with additional roles in Consumer and Retail. Erika's 12+ year career at GE progressed from View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
to wonder whether having shed much of her femininity will compromise her effectiveness as a leader. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406096 PublicationsFinding Lost Profits: An View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
2 (spring 1965): 13-31. * Available at another Harvard University Library, check HOLLIS . The Formula Black, Fischer, and Myron S. Scholes. "Capital Market Equilibrium and the Pricing of Corporate Liabilities." Financial Note No. 16C... View Details
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
to power smaller ones. Small and midsized companies create the vast majority of jobs, but they often depend on big company purchases for their revenues and growth. Large companies, which have tended to be net job-shedders rather than job-creators, create jobs... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
was particularly blown away by the Circular Economy panel. Closed Loop Partner, Levi’s, Morgan Stanley, and Boox.eco came together to discuss the integration of reuse and sustainability into our supply chains. For those working in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
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experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets.... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207039 Vipp A/S Harvard Business School Case 607-052 Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo Abstract—This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne