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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
Each of these executives restored their people's confidence in themselves and in one another—a necessary antecedent to restoring investor or public confidence. They inspired and empowered their organizations to take new actions that could... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
Working Papers Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization Authors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Abstract Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this innovation make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
make multinational financial decision making so challenging. As such, these materials are the most distinctive materials in the course. The materials in the first module are more innovative in their pedagogic approach as they take... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
taking a hint from the reinsurance industry, which runs on risk assessment and which faces financial hits in the wake of any climate-related event. Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of America, in his testimony before the Senate Committee on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has hit communities of color hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting scarcity of informed investors exacerbates market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that could otherwise go toward... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Connections While an analyst for a small-business investment company in Boston in 1962, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), was sent to New Hampshire to checkout a novel communications innovation - a nascent cable TV operation looking for... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
engineering development. The public company must now find new ways to grow, and Isy Goldwasser, a co-founder and new CEO, must lead the transition while maintaining unique scientific resources. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Several innovative regulatory programs are encouraging firms to police their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily disclose, or "confess," the violations they find. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Thematically, the conference aimed to explore the major challenges of angel investing, managing and growing through a pandemic, as well as expanding opportunity for diverse founders and funders, confronting racial justice, and harnessing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Management and author of Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Other Sectors. The environmental challenges we face are among the most important issues facing business. If, as current scientific research suggests, it would be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
vital infrastructure that keeps the economy—and goods and services—moving, including roads, bridges, ports, and freight trains. Businesses that want employees to return to the office know that commute times can depend on potholes and View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
public knowledge. She is also the Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women's freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. She currently serves on the national boards of the... View Details