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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
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an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
that Curiel performed during his second year. Classmates and cofounders Chadd Garcia and Misha Simmonds joined his effort to test that idea following graduation. The RFDF’s “Mini MBA” program offers migrant students online courses in... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
little to do with each other. This is a huge problem. A sustainable society requires that all companies be committed to sustainable strategies. Increasing social expectations regarding a company’s commitment to sustainability mean that View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
forbid the most popular form of life insurance (tontine insurance), limit the growth of life insurers (which included several of the nation's largest financial institutions at the time), and prevent insurance firms from owning the stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
and help build a better world while we are still striving to deliver high performance for the enterprise. Managing that tension is difficult." HBS invited the executives to the second Higher Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the resources whose View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set up effective View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
companies, although it was ultimately deferred for companies with market caps of less than $75 million and made permanent in the Dodd-Frank Act. Audit standards also were modified in 2007, a change that reportedly reduced costs for many View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
unchallenged position in the marketplace until Japanese firms such as Hitachi and Fujitsu flooded the market with less expensive alternatives. In a bold opening move, Gerstner slashed the price of mainframe systems and pushed the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
executive programs on jumpstarting innovation that I chair for executives in large firms and owners of small to midsize businesses are all oversubscribed. This interest in innovation is confirmed by an IBM study in 2006 that asked over... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
matter the most in your industry, and look at them not just as difficulties to be overcome but also as potential sources of value creation. Which Countries Are The Most Business Friendly? Handicapping the Best Countries for Business India? South Africa? Russia? Which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
“Real estate chatter is the most popular sport in Manhattan,” says Kirk Henckels (MBA 1976), who has made a career buying and selling some of New York City’s most luxurious apartments. In his new book with Annie Walker, Life at the Top, Henckels—vice chairman of New... View Details
Keywords: April White
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
involving the unintended consequences of social media and she performs and records as a classically-trained singer, R&B singer-songwriter, and jazz vocalist. Her CD Be the True Revolution is available on iTunes. Her next book will discuss... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of Walt Blackader developed techniques for entering waves... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
the group of elite firms, you need to be a responsible actor. Q: What kinds of things should investors look to leverage from this study? What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) to pay attention to? A: KPIs are the Holy Grail. Since... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
instead of being all-inclusive, was partitioned as "Hardware $1,500 + Software $500" consumers would investigate their feelings about both hardware performance and software desirability, and they might get discouraged in the process.... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
a supply chain pilot implemented at Hugo Boss. This pilot entailed altering the way in which Hugo Boss orders from its suppliers. We explore the challenge of assessing the impact of supply chain change, the link between operational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
innovation outcomes as well as the ongoing performance of existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are relatively more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace