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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
different levers for measuring and implementing a company's strategy. Companies whose BSC describes a low total cost strategy need ABC for accurately measuring the costs of critical processes. Otherwise they...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies...
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- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and placing these centers in its newly held buildings. Despite 3Q’s initial success and with the “build-to-hold” strategy beginning to bear fruit, SOHO’s stock price was still near record lows. How could Zhang Xin educate the stock market...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
take,” Djelic observes, “our government has more support now than when it took office.” International community assistance for reconstruction will total about $4 billion, Djelic believes. As for the private-sector side, “We need to...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
to General George S. Patton. Stillman is professor emeritus of management at the University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, where he taught from 1967 until 1982. He has written a total of eighteen books, a number of...
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- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
firms with global interests—one that centers around the impact that these phenomena may have on such things as the potential benefits and costs of doing business abroad? Specifically, will questions increasingly be asked about whether View Details
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
numerous ministries and eleven affiliated corporations, its 350-person staff, and its total assets of more than $92 million. After three years of commuting to Virginia Union University for Friday and Saturday classes, Reed received a...
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- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
success contrast with anecdotes where the diffusion of CRM into organizations continues to be a slow process and/or where CRM implementation outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Successful implementation depends on a number of factors such as fit between a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
much-needed cash but also expertise and advice. In a perfect world, everyone benefits. The VC firm takes an equity stake and makes money when the company succeeds, rewarding limited partners who have invested in the VC firm. But what...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
head; she smacked him back, splitting his lip” (September 18, 2003). But the rewards were substantial. The pair accepted a check for $1 million on The Early Show, and several weeks later Lehmkuhl, an actor, landed a cameo on the...
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- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many years. Over time, more and more...
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- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
When a company sets a price for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. In fact, new research...
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- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
strategies prompted by a changing climate with the help of a panel of four HBS alumni with expertise in finance and energy, including Hui Wen Chan (MBA 2010), Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008),...
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- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
personal persuasion. Kearney, her twin sister, is an entrepreneur and scholar whose research is fueled by both a frustration with and curiosity about the dearth of venture capital for women. (In the first half of 2013, companies with at least one female founder secured...
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- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
platform for a Leadership Fellow opportunity at Boston Medical Center. Alastair Bell, MD (HBS MBA 2006), Executive VP of Strategy and COO for BMC Health System, notes, “From our standpoint, Leadership Fellows is a way of accessing the...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
psychologist Eugene Gendlin would call a deep “felt sense" of how everything is interacting together to provide your experience of your total life situation. You cannot use this implicit knowledge, however, because it is preverbal,...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
totally new directions, but they also seek out “guardians” whose goal is to protect and make sure that the core—what’s authentic—remains true. Both types of individuals are important during periods of reinvention. They force you to answer...
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