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- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex... View Details
- June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
- Teaching Note
Home Nursing of North Carolina
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- HBS Seminar
EVENT POSTPONED - Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University
Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit
We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
A Third Act for Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Shaich continues to be involved in the fast casual segment as a lead investor in Tatte, Life Alive, and Cava. For Shaich, it comes down to doing the work he loves, a subject he touches on in his new book,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
Harnessing customer data well is central to any modern business, as is earning consumers’ trust that their information will stay private. With data breaches growing more common, regulations are tightening across the globe to bolster... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
It's best to be nice when negotiating a business deal, but it's also OK to be aggressive in pursuing your interests—as long as you back up your position with facts. "If you're a seller and your price... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
strategic objectives,” he says. “Selling divorced from the firm’s goals may be good for individual salespeople and their compensation, but it’s not good for the enterprise and its investors.” The value of selling MBA finance courses often... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
and research, it can best contribute to what will be a major new force in the American economy. For several decades, the view from the HBS campus across Western Avenue has been decidedly "old economy." But now, creative... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Business leaders must respond to growing concerns about pollution, but both the environment and corporate coffers can be green, says Harvard Business School professor Forest Reinhardt. The key to success may depend on how the challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
from trailers to produce clips and test it in an online experiment and in a field experiment. The results provide evidence that the production of short clips using the proposed methodology can be an effective tool to market movies and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application
prepare my recommenders? A good recommender knows you well and is able to speak to your specific strengths and abilities. We prefer to have one of your two recommenders be a current or former supervisor, but... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
percentage rent above a specified revenue threshold. Normatively, the industry seeks to spend no more than 10 percent of revenue on occupancy costs, but when entering leases, restaurateurs may well be... View Details
- Profile
Varnika Menghnani
leadership? While I was aware that leadership is very subjective and many kinds of leaders thrive, I have truly come to appreciate this over time. What has stayed with me is that leadership is a series of "Bold Strokes" but also needs to... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
there may be no reason for them to interpret this as a gift or concession from the employer. More likely, they just assume that their expectations were wrong, and $4 is 'the going rate' for this type of work." So paying more elicited... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- Career Coach
Imam Akinlade
tech, Imam can share key insights into how to assess each of these industries against your personal post-MBA job criteria as well as what to expect in each of these industries from sourcing to recruitment and onboarding. He is also happy... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
take the lead. He understood the incident’s implications went well beyond the specifics, triggering widespread concerns about racial bias in the country and threatening to damage Starbucks’ image as a safe, friendly place to gather with... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups
decrease risk, in addition to highlighting the five forces that will shape our future (unsustainable government debt is No. 1). And regarding that bonus item—it has to do with culture, something Dalio is well known for: “Bridgewater’s... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Summing Up What Role Will Management Play in Saving US Health Care? The verdict is in, according to respondents of this month's column: Problems confronting health care in the US are much larger and broader than those that can be solved... View Details