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Business History - Faculty & Research
Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
ingenious in inventing green alternatives. We may hate to do long-term stuff to protect our grandchildren, but at least we’re inventive. Jeremy Grantham is Cofounder and chairman of GMO, and Founder of Grantham Foundation for the...
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Financial databases: certification and training
the markets and finance. Designed by industry-leading instructors at Training the Street and finance experts at LSEG, the program offers a carefully organized educational series that delivers a clear framework of the foundations of the...
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- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade....
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- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
cross-sector and cross-border partnerships needed to execute the model. Adding new information about how pharmaceutical companies handle global public health challenges. Jessica Martinez, a former Big Pharma executive who joined the Bill & Melinda Gates View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
William R. Kerr and Olivia Hull. Affiliated Faculty Lynda M. Applegate Baker Foundation Professor, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation...
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Competitive Strategy
Porter is engaged in a major new body of work on the theoretical foundations of competitive positioning and the underpinnings of sustainable competitive advantage. This research highlights the distinction between positioning and operational effectiveness; the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
theme." Leonard A. Schlesinger, Baker Foundation Professor and co-author of What Great Service Leaders Know and Do. 6. They avoid distractions “They focus!” Rebecca M. Henderson (@RebeccaReCap), John and Natty McArthur University...
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by Danielle Kost
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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online
Certificate of Specialization. We also offer the Credential of Readiness (CORe). Our CORe program combines three courses—Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting—with a final exam to equip your company’s emerging leaders with a View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Lingo 101
respond with intimate and candid responses through our annual Portrait Project. RC: RC stands for “Required Curriculum” and refers to the first year at HBS. Second year students are also referred to as “RCs”. As RCs, students take a set of Required Curriculum courses...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa
By: Karthik Balasubramanian and David F. Drake
The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting electronic currency ecosystem could improve the lives of the estimated 2 billion people who live on less than $2 a day by...
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Operations Strategy;
Base Of The Pyramid;
Mobile Money;
Inventory Management;
Competition;
Currency;
Service Operations;
Mobile and Wireless Technology
Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake. "Service Quality, Inventory and Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-059, January 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 16 Jun 2020
- News
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 12: Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives
By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the overall business strategy of the organization. The module begins by discussing how managers use goals to communicate business strategy, the...
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Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Performance Goals;
Performance Measures;
Incentives;
Benchmarks;
Motivation;
Compensation;
Bonuses;
Strategy
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 12: Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-112, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
deviations on the performance of individual stores in a new study. “One employee being late or absent can negatively affect not only store operations, but also their coworkers by making them stay to make up for the lost labor.” Ananth Raman, UPS View Details
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Nicolle Richards
I experienced immense heartbreak and agony as I lost my faith, slowly, then all at once. As the child of missionaries, Christianity had been the foundation of my entire life. But two years into college, three read-throughs of the Bible,...
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
Rock: “If someone came to Arthur and said they wanted to make money, he would say he is not interested. But if someone said they wanted to build the foundation of a good company, Arthur would help that person.” A 1987 Alumni Achievement...
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Business Disciplines - MBA
Management MBA Fellowship. MSCPA Scholarships The Massachusetts Society of CPAs Educational Foundation awards scholarships that range from $2,500 to $10,000 to students interesting in pursuing a career in accounting. For further...
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1.13 Satisfactory Academic Progress - MBA
primarily (but not exclusively) on students' basic abilities and mastery of core concepts presented in RC courses. This mastery is required as a foundation for satisfactory completion of the elective curriculum (EC) year and for...
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- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
So using the short-form video. Yes, get out there in the traditional spaces, but also use the video camera in everybody's pocket to reinforce the message that you're trying to send. DM: The book culminates in a chapter that focuses on forward movement using all these...
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