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Frist Faculty Commons The Frist Faculty Commons, located in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center , was named in recognition of the leadership support of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family. The Frist Faculty Commons offers a convenient gathering View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

encourage customers to place orders by year-end so they could hit their annual sales goals. But the price increase was out of line with the competition and undoubtedly ended up costing the company sales and market share. Even more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

underestimated factor in industrial or business marketing is buyer behavior.— Narakesari Narayandas "So you get in, and then if you do things right, what happens for the business? The customer calls you and wants to place an order.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2015
Blog Post

4 Tips for MBA Students with Families

HBS is a diverse place – and not just in terms of the countries our students hail from; some students are single, some come here with partners, and some bring the whole family. In the past we’ve discussed what it’s like to be a partner... View Details

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Versus Emergent Strategy For example, Christensen cites business scholars Henry Mintzberg and James Waters, who in 1985 published a paper defining two forms of strategies: deliberate and emergent. A deliberate strategy, they explained, is a roadmap that a company or an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

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Student Activities - Health Care

Health Care Welcome Reception Takes place each fall and is hosted by the Initiative. This kick-off meet and greet introduces first-year students to the various health care resources at HBS. Health Care 101 Is a broad overview of the... View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

training typically doesn’t yield the return on investment in improved organizational effectiveness and performance that companies expect. “Individual development has to take place in the context of a larger change process motivated by the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

mock-ups of each piece of equipment placed on casters so that they could be moved easily. The learning process included elements of both competition and cooperation to ensure that Cardboard City produced a wide range of possible layouts... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

27 Nov 2006
What Do You Think?

What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?

emphasis be placed on looking backward and more on how to improve future performance? Should the process be renamed and redesigned as a "personal development review"? Should we put aside "forced ratings"? Just where... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Portrait Project

Michi Ferreol

I gave Harold eight Spongebob stickers for winning the Spelling Bee, all outlined in gold. He clutched them tightly in his small, chubby fingers. The rest of the fourth graders had placed their own stickers everywhere — their lunch boxes,... View Details

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

the School thinking that they can begin the transition to retirement by “lecturing” in the classroom. It also requires adaptability on the part of instructors moving between HBS and other schools, including schools that either don’t emphasize the case method and/or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

compensation to performance, as they often fail to rein in pay when performance suffers. · Expectations placed on board members have increased. Most notably, Sarbanes-Oxley and the new listing requirements of the public exchanges have... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

01 Sep 2003
News

Stan O’Neal

While the recent corporate scandals have increased cynicism, O’Neal points to the many positive changes that have taken place as a result — in legislation, in policy, in transparency. “Significant improvements have been made,” notes... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

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

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

and professors who come from extremely different backgrounds has been the best part of my HBS experience. The case method fosters open discussion, so I'm constantly exposed to different opinions and perspectives on business problems in the real world that I hadn't... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

In the spring of 2020, brothers Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) witnessed a series of heartbreaking events. They watched alongside the rest of the world as Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade were... View Details

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

themselves on the web and in social media, however, it raised the additional challenge of maintaining consistency of voice. The Tate put guidelines in place on how staff could present themselves in keeping with the Tate brand, while... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its own end-user products. Ballard says the technology rollout and capitalization process will take place over the coming year; his plan is to... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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