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- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The Brazil World Cup: Big Money for Billions of Eyeballs
- October 2009
- Teaching Note
GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative (TN)
By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
Teaching Note for [410052]. View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Today, we can move our money around from one mutual fund to another, at very low cost. As a result, money flows from funds that aren’ t doing well in a particular quarter into... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Streamlined Time Inc.
This week, Rich Battista (MBA 1990) was named president and CEO of Time Inc. Among Battista’s first moves was appointing Jen Wong (MBA 2004) as chief operating officer; Wong was previously president of... View Details
- September 1999 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
Swatch Group, The: On Internet Time
By: Luc R. Wathieu, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Under the leadership of Nicholas Hayek, the Swatch Group, makers of the Swatch watch, is widely credited with revitalizing the Swiss watch industry by offering a consistent set of brands addressing all segments of the global watch market. New opportunities beyond the... View Details
Wathieu, Luc R., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Swatch Group, The: On Internet Time." Harvard Business School Case 500-014, September 1999. (Revised November 2000.)
- 04 Nov 2015
- News
In Mobile Advertising, Timing Is Everything
- 2021
- Book
Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective
By: Jaqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline M. Elkins
In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which... View Details
Bhabha, Jaqueline, Margareta Matache, and Caroline M. Elkins, eds. Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
living, and a chance to live in different ways going forward. Similar to our research findings about those who take sabbaticals, we learned three things about how we spend our time: How we spend our time at work is more adaptable to our... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
percentage of revenues as well. Potential employees can post their résumé and use the Mom Corps job bank at no charge; they can also pay a fee to have their résumé revamped. The challenge of maintaining Mom Corps’ sense of identity and... View Details
- September – October 2011
- Article
The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times
By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman
It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry
Kraiselburd, Santiago, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman. "The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times." Production and Operations Management 20, no. 5 (September–October 2011): 639–653.
The New Science of Retailing

- May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
- Supplement
ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)
By: Robert L. Simons
Describes internal allocation conflicts in a complex global company structured as a matrix organization. ABB Switzerland has secured and will build an important power station project; however, internal market allocation policies dictate that this work be handled by ABB... View Details
Simons, Robert L. "ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 192-142, May 1992. (Revised January 2000.)
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- April 2012
- Article
Share Issuance and Factor Timing
By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry. Specifically, we use differences between the attributes of stock issuers and repurchasers... View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Stock Shares; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Policy; Profit
Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson. "Share Issuance and Factor Timing." Journal of Finance 67, no. 2 (April 2012): 761–798. (Internet Appendix Here.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Use bailout money for new ventures, not old ones
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the social institution? How can good leadership strengthen morale as well as the economic side of the organization in times of uncertainty? A: We interviewed the CEOs before... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
the venture capital industry. "There are strong affinity groups with Indian venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and with Chinese venture capitalists and entrepreneurs," Gompers says. "And there's sort of a cabal of Jewish entrepreneurs and VCs View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
At first glance, Hamilton Hall looks the same as it has since the student residence was constructed eighty years ago. The building, home to 72 MBA students, blends seamlessly into the classic Georgian architecture of the HBS campus and... View Details
- 10 Jul 2023
- Video
Raising Capital as an Underestimated Entrepreneur
- 2021
- Working Paper
Time and the Value of Data
By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Valavi, Ehsan, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani, and Marco Iansiti. "Time and the Value of Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-016, August 2020. (Revised November 2021.)