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Harvard Business Review: "Don't Try to Protect the Past"
by Adi Ignatius Ginni RomettyFrom the July-August 2017 issue. An Interview with Ginni Rometty by Adi Ignatius. A conversation with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty.
Harvard Business Review: Competing Against Bling (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
by Stephen Nason Joseph Salvacruz J. P. StevensonFrom May-June 2017 issue. How can an understand watch brand stand out in China? by Stephen Nason, Joseph Salvacruz, and J.P. Stevenson. Expert commentary by Kent Wong, and Martin Ganz.
Harvard Business Review: Competing with a Goliath (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
by Jill AveryFrom the October 2016 issue. A Peruvian apparel company struggles to position itself against a global brand.
Harvard Business Review: Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
by Harvard Business ReviewFrom the November 2016 issue. Conceived as strategic investors, many are focusing on financial returns.
Harvard Business Review: Customer Loyalty Is Overrated
by A. G. Lafley Roger L. Martin Rita Gunther Mcgrath Scott Cook David Champion Jorgen Vig KnudstorpFrom the January-February 2017 issue. Focus on habit instead. A theory of cumulative advantage.
Harvard Business Review: Dealing with Drought (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
by Alison Beard Forest L. ReinhardtFrom the November 2016 issue. A farmer debates whether to continue planting or lease his land. By Forest L. Reinhardt, and Alison Beard. Expert commentary by Kim Morison, and Ken LaGrande.
Harvard Business Review: Decoding CEO Pay*
by Robert C. Pozen S. P. KothariFrom the July-August 2017 issue. *The truth is buried in the fine print. And that's a problem. by Robert C. Pozen, and S.P. Kothari.
Harvard Business Review: Don't Let Power Corrupt You
by Dacher KeltnerFrom the October 2016 issue. How to rise to the top without losing the virtues that got you there. By Dacher Keltner
Harvard Business Review: The CEO of Levi Strauss on Leading an Iconic Brand Back to Growth
by Chip BerghFrom the July-August 2018 Issue. The company needed a new strategy and a significant culture change.
Harvard Business Review: The CEO of Popeyes on Treating Franchisees as the Most Important Customers
by Cheryl BachelderFrom the October 2016 issue. Behind the Popeyes turnaround was a conscious decision to treat leadership as stewardship—and to put the interests of franchisees above those of every other stakeholder group.
Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success
by Emily ChanHarvard Business School is the iconic business school. An admission ticket to HBS is a hot commodity and an HBS degree is highly respected in the business world. This book, written by an HBS grad and seasoned businesswoman, tells you why. It is a distillation of the most valuable and pragmatic but yet easiest to learn concepts taught at HBS.
Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing
by John Deighton Leora KornfeldHow does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing budget allocation, but also the stresses involved in the birth of a new go-to-market culture.
Harvard Envy
by Andrew S RosenHarvard Envy is a chapter excerpt from Change.edu coming out October 18, 2011.Exploring the limitations of the exclusive, tradition-bound world of higher education, innovator Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., delivers a vision for making a world-class college experience available to students of all backgrounds. Little is known about John Harvard, who bequeathed his books and £779 to a fledgling college on the Charles River in the 1630s, but the institution that bears his name has become the gold standard for universities worldwide. Tracing this fascinating history, and the history of American higher education overall, "Harvard Envy" raises important questions about the effect of super-elite campuses on America's educational landscape. Just as Congress hotly debated whether to approve land-grant colleges in the nineteenth century, opening the doors of higher education to farmers, we face a competitive new demand for a highly educated workforce. Yet many colleges continue to insist on limiting access, and many college applicants continue to believe that exclusive institutions deliver the highest quality. With an eye-opening examination of the U.S. News and World Report college rankings and other barometers, "Harvard Envy" takes an enlightened look at how universities allocate resources and talent. Offering an inspiring alternative to the Ivory Tower playbook, Andrew S. Rosen presents a bold, cost-effective new vision for a truly competitive higher education system that serves both individual and national interests.
Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey
by Luc WathieuHarvard Real Estate Services executives need to design the 2005 Graduate Student Housing Survey for maximum impact in anticipation of Harvard's long-term expansion project in Allston. Students are challenged to help executives in charge to (1) draw the lessons from their earlier survey experience: what survey data had most--or least--impact and why? and (2) imagine what survey data--accounting for the power and limits of survey research--could be most useful for the Allston initiative. Provides a complete template for survey research, while at the same time raises critical issues--technical issues as well as more managerial questions related to the proactive management of market research in organizations.
Harvard Management Co. and Inflation-Protected Bonds
by Luis M. ViceiraIn March 2000, the board of The Harvard Management Co. (HMC) approved significant changes in the policy portfolio determining the long-run allocation policy of the Harvard University endowment. These changes included a sharp reduction of the allocation to U.S. equities and U.S. nominal bonds and a significant investment in the new U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). This case focuses on the analysis that led HMC management to recommend such changes to the board.
Harvard Management Co.--1994
by Jay O. LightHarvard University decides upon the asset allocation for its endowment, and the mode in which it should be managed.
Harvard Management Co.--2001
by Jay O. LightHarvard Management Co. uses portfolio theory to help consider the asset allocation issues for its endowment.
Harvard Management Company
by Andre F. Perold Erik StaffordIn February 2010, Jane Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, was reflecting on the list of issues facing Harvard University's endowment in preparation for the upcoming board meeting. The recent financial crisis had vividly highlighted several key issues including the adequacy of short-term liquidity, the effectiveness of portfolio risk management, and the balance of internal and external managers.
Harvard Square: A Love Story
by Catherine J. Turco“Harvard Square isn’t what it used to be.” Spend any time there, and you’re bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really mean that Harvard Square—or any other beloved Main Street or downtown—“isn’t what it used to be”? Catherine J. Turco, an economic sociologist and longtime denizen of Harvard Square, set out to answer this question after she started to wonder about her own complicated feelings concerning the changing Square.Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Turco explores why we love our local marketplaces and why we so often struggle with changes in them. Along the way, she introduces readers to a compelling set of characters, including the early twentieth-century businessmen who bonded over scotch and cigars to found the Harvard Square Business Association; a feisty, frugal landlady who became one of the Square’s most powerful property owners in the mid-1900s; a neighborhood group calling itself the Harvard Square Defense Fund that fought real estate developers throughout the 1980s and ’90s; and a local businesswoman who, in recent years, strove to keep her shop afloat amid personal tragedy, the rise of Amazon, and a globalizing property market that sent her rent soaring.Harvard Square tells the crazy, complicated love story of one quirky little marketplace and in the process, reveals the hidden love story Americans everywhere have long had with their own Main Streets and downtowns. Offering a new and powerful lens that exposes the stability and instability, the security and insecurity, markets provide, Turco transforms how we think about our cherished local marketplaces and markets in general. We come to see that our relationship with the markets in our lives is, and has always been, about our relationship with ourselves and one another, how we come together and how we come apart.
Harvard University Defined Contribution Pension Plan in 2013: Looking Ahead
by Luis M. Viceira John Souther Jordan ChapmanHarvard Case Study
Harvard University Defined Contribution Pension Plan in 2013: Looking Ahead
by Luis M. Viceira John Souther Jordan ChapmanCase
Harvest Loss in China: Rice, Mechanization, and the Moral Hazard of Outsourcing (The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia)
by Xue Qu Daizo Kojima Laping Wu Mitsuyoshi AndoThis open access book examines food security in China with a specific focus on rice harvesting. As the most populous agricultural developing country, China’s food security is closely related to the world’s food security. An urgent issue internationally, data show that every year, about one-third of food is lost and wasted before it even reaches the market, mainly in less developed countries. To this end, halving the amount of food loss and waste is one of the Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, the Chinese government issued the Anti-Food Waste Law of the People’s Republic of China, placing a high priority on food loss reduction. Rice, one of the major staple foods, has also received a higher priority in government policy, as it has been deemed required to be “absolutely safe”. In China, rice farmers rely heavily on outsourcing services to complete harvesting, which has led to the rapid development of mechanical harvesting. This book shows that the essence of outsourcing services is a principal–agent relationship in which there is a potential moral hazard, which is considered detrimental to harvest losses. The book analyses the effect of the moral hazard in harvest outsourcing services on rice harvest losses from this principal–agent theoretical perspective. Using the latest nationwide farmer survey, it empirically demonstrates the moral hazard in agricultural outsourcing services and its negative impact on harvest losses, providing suggestions for food loss reduction in China and similar developing countries where agricultural outsourcing services are developing rapidly. Relevant to social science researchers working in areas of food security in connection with the SDGs, and to scholars studying development in China more generally, this is a timely contribution confronting possible means of food loss reduction, in the developing world particularly, in the East, and globally.
Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown
by Richard LueckeThe majority of entrepreneurs eventually look for an opportunity to harvest the monetary value they have created--value that is locked up in the enterprise. This chapter examines the motivations that lead to harvesting, the primary mechanisms for doing so, and the methods used to determine business value.
Harvest of Rage
by Joel DyerIn its September 1997 issue, Soldier of Fortune Magazine suggested reading "Harvest of Rage" might be an appropriate and timely wake-up call for the Clinton Administration. In this book, Rocky Mountain News editor Joel Dyer through interviews and seemingly well-documented research describes the antigovernment movement in America today. Dyer dispells the myth that antigovernment movement members are rabid beer-swilling Bubus, and ably places the development of the movement in perspective in terms of the Farm Crisis, Federal Reserve policy, and the increased domination of agriculture by the multinational agribusiness concerns. Though Dyer may have his own agenda, the book presents the reality of the antigovernment movement's actions as well as the forces operating on the people involved.
Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages: Rural Labor Markets in Colombia, 1975-1990 (Linking Levels Of Analysis)
by Sutti OrtizHarvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages offers an insightful scrutiny of rural market behavior and a convincing explanation of why farmers fail sometimes to manage their laborers in ways predicted by market models--and how power imbalances and social conditions can impair the ability of laborers to attain a fair market contract during lax labor market periods. This empirical study, based on interviews with both farmers and laborers, covers a fifteen-year period characterized by the modernization of production. Ortiz compares three localized coffee labor markets, expanding the analysis by contrasting the strategies used by the coffee farmers in her study areas with those that farmers in other parts of the world adopt in order to cope with similar problems. Her data challenge prevalent generalizations about the consequences of agricultural modernization on laboring families by showing that management practices and contractual arrangements are ultimately molded by local conditions--cultural perceptions of a fair exchange, familial obligations and roles, availability of housing, bargaining power in the home and in the market, kin networks, and information flows--in interaction with national and global influences. Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages will be of primary interest to anthropologists and sociologists, geographers, political scientists interested in explicit and implicit contract formats, and economists intrigued by the possibility of integrating social variables as contextual aspects of management strategies. Sutti Ortiz is Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Boston University.