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- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-040_96933ceb-3097-4432-97d1-0b32625889f9.pdf January 2014 Harvard Business Review Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy By: Ready, Douglas A., Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas Abstract—When most of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
these expenses would likely be categorized as the cost of goods sold. These expenses encompass direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in Information Technology (IT) and other functional areas,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Is there any distribution system more poorly conceived than the one used by most U.S. car manufacturers and dealers? In the prevailing system, car prices are initially jacked up by locked-in labor concessions. Manufacturers pit dealers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion. Lacking frameworks for deciding upon countries to enter and services to deliver in each country, Exline used gut instinct.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
takes an in-depth look at microfinance, an important and relatively new poverty-alleviating weapon. Introduced about thirty years ago, this system of very small loans to grassroots entrepreneurs such as street vendors, subsistence... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished goods) or View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
person's commitment to service outside of their profession ... as good an indication as any of a person's commitment to more than just achieving status and making money" (Tammy Doty); 3) encouraging a school's admissions group to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
the frames you have seen. They present this as a service but it’s also very valuable data, because they can link offline and online, and they know that you were in the store on a particular day and what frames you saw, and they can follow... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. The move worked and the studio hit both deadlines. The book cites short-term innovation, in the decision to borrow the computers,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
upon which to dramatize the advantages of the American system of free enterprise." Foremost among the more than forty company exhibitors was the nation's largest industrial corporation, General Motors. Still smarting from the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
of Business: A Systems Approach with Explicit Integration of Public Health Co-Benefits Professor Macomber structured the course to have students approach the topic from four points of view, and assigned student team projects to think... View Details
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment
intersection of risk, equity, and systemic resilience. Panelist Dave Jones (JD/MPP ’88) , Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley School of Law, brought extensive experience in public service... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
before moving to GE Medical Systems, where he was named CEO in 1997. Reflecting on his years at GE, Immelt recalls many moments of intense, even painful, learning. “In 1989, I was running the appliance service business in the midst of a... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
architecture. In particular, we draw from modular systems theory to develop a series of hypotheses about how different types of coupling impact the ability to update, remove, or replace the software applications in a firm’s portfolio. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
recruits by five to 10 months. McKinsey, for example, has laid off both non-client and client service staff, and for the first time in its history, has offered buyouts to hundreds of senior associates. Meanwhile, public consulting firm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
required to bring the deep ocean water up to the surface. The cold seawater passes through a titanium heat exchanger and cools a secondary freshwater system that feeds cold water to all air conditioners. Then the seawater is sent back to... View Details
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