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- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
existing organization communication patterns" [such as bottom up plus top down, outside in—from customers—plus inside out, etc.]. Challenges of new information technologies and how to deal with them were the focus of several...
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
experimented with changes such as reducing the size of discussion groups for better engagement, we found new ways for participants to network virtually, and we took advantage of increased access to case protagonists due to travel...
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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
projects and good returns. Project finance — Esty’s specialty and the focus of his course — involves highly leveraged deals and risk-taking, something that has interested Esty since he wrote his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the...
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
system. They’re just not working. "We do a very poor job of teaching that in the United States—giving people a basic familiarity with digital technology." "The second is that a lot of the shortage of workers is coming in the form of digital natives who can View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
information (street, telephone number, etc.), and batches of filled-in forms were sent to the keypunching center in the basement of Baker Library. Piles of keypunched cards (each somewhat smaller than a size 10 envelope) containing the...
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- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
but the core components remain extremely effective. The curriculum resonates strongly with course participants because it deals with exactly the kinds of issues professional service firm leaders face daily. As in all HBS courses, we...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
would intrude ever more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to. Instead, the transformation is unfolding on a model of consumer empowerment, in which consumers use digital media to communicate with one another and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
genocidal Nazi ideology, it was not doomed from the start. Rather it represented Hitler’s best chance to achieve his war aims for Germany. In Ellman’s recounting, Barbarossa did not fail because of flaws in the Axis invasion strategy, the View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
marketing, strategy, and general management roles. A common question from MBAs is how to decide what type of company to pursue- whether an early stage start up, a medium size company, or a large corporation. What advice do you have for...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
that the business of oil exploration is more capital intensive than people intensive. "But those we do have are given a great deal of financial responsibility." James Hackett of Ocean Energy does see a few advantages for smaller companies...
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- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a...
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- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
cognizant of the potential benefits and costs of setting up a secret channel. They understand that details as small as the timing of a meeting or the size and shape of the negotiating table can make a difference. Above all, they are...
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by Michael Watkins
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
expected to deal at arms-length with its "sister" businesses, while substantially reducing the size and functions of the corporate headquarters. But as the business units (BUs) and corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered....
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by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
the improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has affected not only productivity, but also the nature of business competition itself. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAtHoc: View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
home-grown disaffected Islamic extremists, and the ongoing social catastrophe in southern European countries because of the Euro crisis. Brexit will at best divert the attention of the political and administrative talent of Europe from View Details
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
well as to other cyclic groups in the system. We show that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of development-open,...
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Sean Silverthorne