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- 2010
- Book
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Innovation and Management;
Resource Allocation;
Business Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Competitive Strategy
Simons, Robert L. Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 2014
- Working Paper
Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin
This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK....
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Gil, Nuno, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-025, September 2013. (Revised January 2014.)
Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those...
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- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice as well," Narayandas points out. In the second phase, Narayandas identifies three key aspects of managing customer...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
underscored the importance of employee engagement, contributing to the community, and creating sustainable environment strategies. Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela In this video report, Senior Lecturer John Macomber visits the...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- October 2020
- Case
PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen
Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Information Technology;
Learning;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Social Issues;
Education Industry;
India;
Asia
Kim, John J-H, and Malini Sen. "PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India." Harvard Business School Case 321-022, October 2020.
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
the top 10 leaderboard this year. But the fact is, America has been slipping since the year 2000, long before the housing bubble burst and recession swept the country, say Harvard Business School Professors Michael E. Porter and Jan W....
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom...
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All Industries
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
programs requires more than providing accessible, affordable care; it requires understanding what makes both end users and providers tick. By understanding the cognitive processes underlying our choices and applying the tools of...
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Anna Secino
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
carlballou Most industries are in major digital upheaval, but retail particularly seems in some kind of disruptive spin-cycle. As the retail season eneters its most crucial time of year, we take a deep breath to contemplate research from Harvard Business View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
might not like particular policies). This will give a big boost to business and consumer confidence. Under Biden and Harris, drama and uncertainty will be replaced by goal clarity and communication transparency. President-elect Biden’s Cabinet and advisor View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt...
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by Michael Watkins
- Web
Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
Decision Choices and Conditions ; Product ; Distribution ; Product Launch ; Electronics Industry ; Consumer Products Industry Citation Educators Related Zhu, Feng, Jiangyong Lu, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Anker Innovations (A)." Harvard Business...
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- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
In fall 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School incorporated a two-week module on Race and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Super power into the MPP core curriculum. The school created this...
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- 14 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets
Love came to Carolina Delgado Joyce and Charlie Joyce (both MBA 2018) before they entered HBS together in 2016. With a wedding scheduled for July 9, "It was challenging," Charlie admits. "It's hard not to pull your hair out when you're simultaneously...
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Marketing - Faculty & Research
customer-centric organization a firm attempts to sustain value over time. Our faculty addresses a broad array of topics in all of these areas. Our work attempts to get a better understanding of how consumers use information and make View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they...
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by Mihir Desai