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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
for a year, first with commercial formulators, and ultimately finalized the recipes in Woods’s Cambridge kitchen. Each of their launch products—the Eden, Lacewing, and Tandem—satisfies one of three major flavor profiles (fruity, herbal,... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
then to go into business means a great deal," Du Bois wrote. "It is, indeed, a step in social progress worth measuring." 3 Harvard Business School (HBS), the country's first graduate program in business administration, opened its doors in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
is looking out the window, wondering what to do? I had 10,000 of those moments.”) She led one of the first private equity deals in Ethiopia. And as CEO of BGFI Investment banking, she oversaw the financing and the development of two ports... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
product development terms, you might call this something like "jumping to the next S-curve." By the "S-curve" we mean the pattern that new innovations typically follow when they are introduced. At first a few people,... View Details
- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?
By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber
In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details
Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations
Heese, Jonas, Charles C.Y. Wang, and James Weber. "Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?" Harvard Business School Case 122-061, January 2022. (Revised February 2022.)
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
Editor's note: This is part of a series of occasional columns on managing the family business written by Senior Lecturer John A. Davis. In this article, Davis discusses when to make changes at the top. No one needs convincing that the View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
basically the manifesto that she uses to create this ethos within Stella McCartney. A: Yes. I think she does not communicate her initiatives as much as we would have thought. First of all, it was interesting to see in class that many... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
Summing Up What is the right mix between intuition and analysis? Several clear themes characterized responses to this month's column. Dominant among these was that the best way to reach a decision depends on a number of factors, including... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
communist Cuba. "It's only now that I have four children of my own that I understand what a painful decision that was," says Saladrigas, who, while still in Miami, has traveled far from those humble beginnings without leaving them behind all together. During his View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
hundred,” Nagle says. Not everyone leaped on the knowledge right away, however. Since the academic community hadn’t anticipated this development, some researchers were quicker to use it than others. In order to figure out who those... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
post-baccaluareate program before starting at Harvard Medical School. The first year of medical school we took a health care policy class - we are one of the few medical schools to have a formal policy course that is required. The class... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
agriculture, and Lydia had a background in the food industry. “It seemed a good match,” he says. “And if you do it right, harvesting maple sap is a totally sustainable agricultural practice.” Good Timing and Good Chemistry Doing it right... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
weren’t evaluating merely what was written on paper. “They were looking at him and applying subjective character tests. Do you look trustworthy? Do you fit the image in my mind of a successful businessperson?” The solution, Ballard thought, was to “remove the View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
of training we had given ourselves in the field of polarized light had endowed us with a competence we had not sought and did not know we had," Land wrote. "It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers . . . had been a school and a preparation both... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
for you not be good for us?” asked Berkson. Today the couple lives in Greenwich Village and has built a life together focused on civil rights activism, friends, and their blended family. Photo by Susan Young View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
learning must be more interactive" The limitations of traditional forms of knowledge management come from two sets of assumptions, he argues. The first assumption is that the most important elements of a job function are observable,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Scaling Responding to Biased Questions Advice on VC Fundraising Show Hide Details Concepts The Venture Capital Industry The Financing Process Term Sheets and Exits Featured Exercises Determine whether VC funding is right for your startup... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne