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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-038.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsFood Security and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Harvard Business School Case 508-002 The Mormon Church focuses on self-reliance and being prepared for emergencies. Part of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
follow, observe the authors, since more than a few failed companies have run straight into the tiger's jaws while believing that all they had to do was outrun their competition. Ghoshal and Moran, both of the London Business School, and Bartlett, chairman of HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
centralized effort or another significant program by the Federal Reserve. But a remarkably large pool of unmobilized capital is sitting within our firms and managers appear frozen in their decision-making. A gentle nudge to break this... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Questions To Be Answered What's the best bonus program to boost sales productivity? Can companies inspire heroism in employees? Can employers promote moral behavior? Does money lead to creativity? What's The Best Bonus View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
radio on the way back from work, get home, tune into a program on another network, and be perfectly content. But there are other reasons for the lower ratings as well. Unlike the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics presents fewer sports... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the ads. Q: You're expecting that more... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
research is underway on several issues. To what degree are corporate structure and strong unit autonomy incompatible? How much strong national leadership is required to complement local program customization? And how important is national... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
they are granted. Some corporations whose option expenses represent a relatively modest charge—often due to low betas resulting from low stock price volatility—have done so already. On another front, organizations that are being forced to return once again to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
program offers newly minted MBAs the opportunity to oversee a $50 million unit as a field operations director responsible for finance, strategy, and marketing. Yet all the mentoring and flexible schedules won’t matter if a company is... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
Schneider, Tufano proposes a slight renovation of the program that will make it easier for asset-poor families to use savings bonds to build a nest egg for the future. Families living paycheck to paycheck rarely squirrel away funds to... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Happold developed its first formal internal training programs under the name of "Archimedes Academy." The first two programs were (1) the Job Leader Program, targeted for senior engineers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at HBS. Gupta, whose current academic interests lie in mobile advertising, mobile payments, and mobile commerce, described the difficult landscape confronting marketers... View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The tutorial helps execs understand how... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
operational improvement programs that have been so popular in the past. Why not? A: That's not true! We often have recommended in our writing and consulting both TQM and reengineering, as well as other types of improvement programs. And... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
cuts in all parts of the business. They face choices in whether to employ layoffs or furloughs (unpaid leaves) for any needed workforce reductions, and whether to enact hiring freezes and other cost-saving changes to employee and executive compensation View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
auto makers have made advances, and Korean manufacturers are focusing on improving their quality and innovating on warranties and assurance programs to remove consumer uncertainty. Much further down the road, competition will come from... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
programs as a "house of cards"? A: Predictable surprises loom in most organizations. Frequent-flyer programs are simply one example that affects a lot of people. Most of us collect our miles and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
years ago we launched a research program to develop a process that leaders could use to engage their people in an honest conversation. The "strategic fitness process" was designed in partnership with senior executives to enhance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat