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- 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT, 21 May 2015
Mexico City Alumni: Determine Your Career Elements & Connect with HBS
Join members of HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) and fellow HBS alumni to network and gain insight on key HBS innovations and initiatives. Kristen Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of CPD will share resources available to you and guide you through a quick...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks
By: Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth...
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- 11 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Military Community at HBS
In this Facebook Live session, HBS Professor George Riedel chats with current students about their path to HBS, tips during the application process, the military community, and resources available to students (and their families) at HBS...
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- 08 Nov 2019
- News
HBS Life: The Military Community at HBS
- December 2023
- Article
Association of Hospital System Affiliation with COVID-19 Capacity Burden
By: Zachary Levin, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Richard J. Boxer and Regina E. Herzlinger
What is the message? The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the highly variable and uncoordinated responses by hospitals. The authors found that while the non-top ten system affiliated hospitals had a larger COVID-19 share index relative to independent hospitals, top-ten system...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
Resource Allocation;
Health Pandemics;
Demographics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Levin, Zachary, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Richard J. Boxer, and Regina E. Herzlinger. "Association of Hospital System Affiliation with COVID-19 Capacity Burden." Health Management, Policy and Innovation 8, no. 3 (December 2023).
- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
companies that add “a little juice” to restricted stock programs by rewarding outperformance only over direct competitors, regardless of broader market shifts. He says these outperformance shares, where more or fewer shares vest as...
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by Avery Forman
- 07 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets
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by Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
- October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align...
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Management Teams;
Leadership;
Balanced Scorecard;
Strategic Planning;
Balance and Stability;
Motivation and Incentives;
Communication Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Auto Industry;
Brazil;
Germany
Kaplan, Robert S., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 111-049, October 2010. (Revised June 2014.)
- December 2010
- Article
Work Pray Love
This article identifies five problematic issues in the intersection of work and life that create human resource challenges for organizations and their employees. These include work overload, the slow pace of adopting telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household...
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Keywords:
Wages;
Work-Life Balance;
Religion;
Technology Adoption;
Problems and Challenges;
Human Resources;
Gender
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Work Pray Love." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- 6 PM – 8:30 PM +04, 15 Apr 2015
Dubai Alumni: Determine Your Career Elements & Connect with HBS
On April 15th at the Capital Club in Dubai, Professor Tim Butler, Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs and Lauren Murphy, Director of Career & Professional Development, will share resources available to you and guide you through a quick exercise to...
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- December 2007 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A)
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bertrand Moingeon, Vincent Marie Dessain and Ane Damgaard Jensen
This case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Employee Relationship Management;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Expansion;
Consumer Products Industry;
France
Edmondson, Amy C., Bertrand Moingeon, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Ane Damgaard Jensen. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-107, December 2007. (Revised September 2011.)
- 1 PM – 2 PM EDT, 10 Sep 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
America's Unconventional Energy Opportunity
In this session, Professor Michael Porter along with co-authors David Gee and Gregory Pope from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will discuss the research HBS and BCG have jointly conducted on the opportunities and challenges presented by the United States'...
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- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller
Miller shares how education helped him escape a life of crime, how keeping his secret came at a huge personal price, and why employers should give the formerly incarcerated a chance to succeed. Directed by Jamal Meneide, a filmmaker based...
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- July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and David Lane
This case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Employee Relationship Management;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Expansion;
Consumer Products Industry;
France
Edmondson, Amy C., and David Lane. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 613-003, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge between disparate enterprises. “The more different the...
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by Ben Rand
- Research Summary
Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size...
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- January 2021
- Supplement
E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (B): Optimizing Assortment for a New Retailer
By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for...
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Keywords:
Data Analysis;
Data Analytics;
CPG;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Online Channel;
Retail;
Retail Analytics;
Retailing Industry;
Data;
Data Sharing;
Ecommerce;
Assortment Optimization;
Assortment Planning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Retention;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
- Article
Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Size;
Emerging Markets;
Supply and Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari. "Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India." Journal of Law & Economics 57, no. 4 (November 2014): 897–936. (Revised February 2014.)
- November 2009
- Journal Article
A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level
By: Diego A. Comin and Sunil Mulani
This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i) idiosyncratic R&D innovations...
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Keywords:
Volatility;
Microeconomics;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Performance Productivity;
Mathematical Methods;
Research and Development
Comin, Diego A., and Sunil Mulani. "A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level." Journal of Monetary Economics 56, no. 8 (November 2009): 1023–1042.
- 14 Nov 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?
(AdobeStock/Kostiantyn) There are numerous studies of character traits in leaders. Human resource experts have advised us on what to look for in those who would be potential leaders. Management development focuses on behaviors that build...
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by James Heskett