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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a...
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- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
inventory without the use of technology," says John Jong-Hyun Kim, a senior lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg fellow at Harvard Business School. "And yet, schools have been slow to adopt and integrate technology in the...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
was U.S.-owned, it had a history of stable lifetime employment and a union that enjoyed close relations with management. However, when the plant's first U.S. manager instigated downsizing to enhance returns—even though the plant was...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
and customer acquisition. If you are building a brand, my advice is to keep Amazon while you build out your Shopify ecosystem, and then make the move. It may not be relevant in your business but buying inventory can keep the supply chain...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:In Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Neal M. Ashkansy, Oluremi B. Ayoko, and Karen Jehn. Edward Elgar...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
often-overlooked aspect of poverty. Feingold himself didn’t understand the need until 2010, when he and his wife were discussing how to celebrate their children’s second and fourth birthdays. At the time, Feingold was a portfolio manager...
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- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
Ask any small business owner and they will tell you that cash flow is on their mind pretty much all the time. This isn’t surprising, given that they are continuously managing dollars coming in from customers and going out to pay for...
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by Karen Mills
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
operations where there are established techniques in inventory management and reengineering, there are no obvious and permanent cost-cutting results to be gained through marketing, short of simply slashing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
interest in expanding offerings along the lines of programs such as The Entrepreneur's Tool Kit and Odyssey. In the coming months, the committee will conduct a comprehensive inventory of current offerings as well as review past...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
READ MORE An Orchestral Startup—Richard J. Lim (HBS'98), cofounder of Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra Managing a Master—Edward C. Arrendell (MBA'80) with Wynton Marsalis, "an unbeatable combination." Guitar Hero—Henry E. Juszkiewicz (MBA...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618028 Harvard Business School Case 618-019 Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (A) Managers make predictions all the time: How fast will my markets grow? How...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when...
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- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's leaders in - and definers of - casual attire. In 1998, Business Week named Jackson one of the top...
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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and selling methodologies. But...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major investors there, making it easier...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810096-PDF-ENG Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 110-063 Owens & Minor (O&M) performed lean...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first...
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