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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

https://courseware.hbs.edu/video/?v=0_cteitfd6 Course Content and Organization The course first focuses on how to buy a small business. We begin with the case of two HBS MBAs who chose to purchase a small business using a search fund instead of pursuing a more... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

New Releases

together a stellar record of performance while building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority executives, Thomas and Gabarro embarked on a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Career Coach

Anne Marie Checcone

Anne Marie (HBS '04, Johns Hopkins ‘98) advises HBS students and alumni through professional and personal transitions that impact their career trajectory. Anne Marie helps clients to clarify their professional goals, craft their job search strategy, and navigate a... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Financial Services (All); Technology

August 2013
Article

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder and Michael W. Toffel

Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that violate government regulations, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Crime and Corruption; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Customer Satisfaction; Auto Industry; Service Industry

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

knowledge, is now being embedded into the tools and building blocks used to make products? Willy Shih: Knowledge is one of the core resources in a company, and translating that knowledge into processes that produce products and services... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

“consumption-based economy of the early 20th century originated in the face-to-face selling strategies of peddlers and book canvassers of the previous generation.” The book begins in the early 1800s with a look at the hardships of the... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

same time remain flexible enough to source new expertise and knowledge from outside the company." The planned termination of the lowest performing employees was characterized as a way "to forget things we no longer need to know," a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

often approach innovation and disruption much differently. Having worked hard to align strategy and organization to support the current business, they develop tunnel vision, encouraging employees, customers, suppliers, and partners to... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

revenue for their companies. "For many firms, it's possible to act sustainably and make money at the same time," says Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University who has a joint appointment in the General Management and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

Allocation Theory By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

Understanding the Digital Frontier

energize your current customers to recruit new ones. Before companies enter the social-networking world, however, four “POST” questions need to be answered: People (what are your customers ready for?); Objectives (what are your company’s goals?); View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

growth, Nneka felt she could make a significant impact at home. After obtaining her degree in chemical engineering in London and studying French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Nneka moved to the United States to begin her career as a View Details

13 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

this strategy to help companies to target specific students through the resume databases based on industry/function/location preferences and increase their application to hire yield. Regardless of timing, Kristen emphasized the importance... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch. At present, there are two... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

management process. One study, completed in collaboration with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan, addresses the strategy design and implementation phase of the process by exploring how buyer-seller... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

planning is a great strategy (a big if), the process often makes it irrelevant to what is happening in sales.” Companies should treat strategic planning as an ongoing process... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

levels, will affect structural conditions." 2 Porter integrated the impact of government into strategy development by focusing on how it affected his "five-forces" analysis of rivals, potential entrants, suppliers,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

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