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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

deepen your company’s competitive advantage. We live in an ever changing world and in order to keep up and become successful, continuous education is a must-do. Ozgur Taskaya User Acquisition Manager at... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Feedback Show Hide Details Concepts Your Network Managing Up and Down Managing Your Direct Reports (Coaching) Adversity and Stress Rising to Leadership Responsibility Featured... View Details

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-043.pdf An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jul 2023
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Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

well as to large community groups and their members. In his role, McClain will design capital products, and identify and negotiate agreements with capital partners who provide fairly-priced funds for BrightUp’s users. He will also manage... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again

it from now on. The kids have to go along with it. You have an interesting power dynamic, where it’s easier to create a new ritual. In the workplace, rituals tend to be better received when they come from the bottom up and reflect the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Apr 2001
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Strategy and the Internet

forms, including better technologies, superior inputs, better trained people, or a more effective management structure. The other way to achieve advantage is strategic positioning—doing things differently from competitors, in a way that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

23 Apr 2007
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Are Great Teams Less Productive?

Learning promotes performance—is there any argument? Without learning, organizations, teams, and managers are stuck in yesterday's world. In fact, says Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson, there are built-in tensions between... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

05 Mar 2007
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Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

30 Mar 2023
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Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

Amager Bakke, a waste incinerator in Copenhagen, Denmark. The plant was built in 2016 by Amager Resource Center, a management company owned by the five municipalities the incinerator serves. The project replaced an outdated, 47-year-old... View Details

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

since 2016. Regional Leaders Each Circles region requires multiple volunteer leaders for them to be successful. Together, Regional Leads manage program aspects that ensure smooth operations and an engaged community: Oversee and support... View Details

June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
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Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System

By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij S. Khurana

This case describes the precarious fiscal situation of the Illinois public pension system in the spring of 2009 and the accounting of pension plans by non-federal municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently-appointed Governor... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; Annuities; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Taxation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Illinois

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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

research, insights, and innovations that shape the business world. Upcoming confirmed regional events / YA regional events Join us at HBS Alumni Regional events to connect, learn, and grow with fellow alumni in your area! Sign up to stay... View Details

July–August 2025
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Case Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce?

By: William Kerr

To remain competitive in the internet-of-things era, should the CEO of SolidTech Innovations, a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators.... View Details

Keywords: Training; Competency and Skills; Employees; Change Management; Leading Change

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09 Mar 2023
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Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

their own companies. Singer and Hackett wanted to see how those plans were put into play right after HBS and over the course of a career. All of these stories needed to start somewhere, and Singer and Hackett found that somewhere in a basement room on the HBS campus.... View Details

22 Oct 2007
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Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

the line, are not directly replicable in software as there is no line to stop. "What we hope to do," Upton says, "is to distill the relevant aspects of lean manufacturing so that managers can see how these tools were... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

10 Feb 2021
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Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

light in 2017 are substantially more likely than those without such prior ties to bring on female writers following the #MeToo movement, according to a forthcoming article in Management Science titled Scandal, Social Movement, and Change:... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

16 Mar 2020
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How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

to the challenge. Think of it as a new strategic initiative facing huge execution challenges. These require senior management to get the best information they can about barriers to execution, and it requires trust and commitment. That... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. Psychological safety describes an environment of low interpersonal fear. The fear of making a negative impression can drive all kinds of sub-optimal behavior—such as not speaking View Details

20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

returns are negative. Accounting returns in countries with higher earnings management mean revert more slowly for profitable firms and more rapidly for loss firms. Thus, earnings management incentives to... View Details

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