Competencies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship

identification with your job and the company are other important factors. Besides creative talents and the gift of logical thinking, you also need the best and most competent professional training in the world." Also in the article,... View Details

01 Nov 2012
News

First and Goal

academic scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he competed for and won a spot on the football team, and earned a varsity letter and several championship rings. Despite playing behind a Heisman Trophy winner and four NFL draft... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Dec 2011
News

At Your Service

competing on; determining how to fund excellence in these areas; designing management systems that help employees to succeed at their jobs; and training their customers. To be a great service company, do you have to be equally good at all... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

industries, but on providing support for basic process-oriented innovation that can be utilized by competing companies in several industries. Managers who understand the importance of competing through... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

become more frequent as well—and technology develops to protect users from unwanted intrusions. A market in access and identity results. Property exchanges. As with Napster, Craigslist, and eBay, people participate in the anonymous exchange of goods and services. Firms... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

Web

Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

service and systems change efforts need to build complementary capabilities. Scaling service delivery calls for a set of skills, knowledge, tools, and competencies different from collaborative systems change efforts. Organizations need to... View Details

Web

Europe - Global Activities 2021

taken in parts of the EU to integrate newcomers into the job market by comparing Just Arrived with other job-matching platforms, including a competing Swedish venture, Novare Potential, as well as Socialbee in Germany, and Mygrants in... View Details

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

demonstrably fair offer and then—if the other party is unreasonable—extending a challenge to take the competing offers to an arbitrator who must choose one or the other rather than a compromise between them (the usual outcome of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

(e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests of a deliberative "should" self and an affective... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

competencies of each partner and create two-way value is evidenced by, among others, the collaboration between The College Fund (UNCF) and Merck. UNCF, the largest and oldest minority educational assistance organization in the United... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Nantero Harvard Business School Case 809-031 This case describes a decision confronting the founder of Nantero, a company developing a new semiconductor technology. The company needs to raise additional venture capital. Potential investors have View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Cesaro e Associati

By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal

This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details

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13 Jun 2016
News

JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal

“You’ve had a part to do with it. It could be that you trusted when you shouldn’t have trusted. You didn’t think about whether the person had high character, was competent and had the authority and therefore shame on you. We don’t like to... View Details

09 Feb 2015
News

Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)

his death to the HBS community, Dean Nitin Nohria said, “John Whitehead has been an alumnus we have held up as exemplifying the competence and character we associate with true leadership. It is with deep sadness, as a community, that we... View Details

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

type of investment? A: Yes, it may be true that Boston (or any other city) benefits by keeping its football team or baseball team. But, another city without a team also would benefit from taking away Boston's team. And, as a result, cities View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

positions in society. Sociocultural distinctions may be race, ethnicity, gender, religion, nationality, and sexual orientation. Theory And Practice According to Ely, there are two competing theories about the impact of cultural diversity... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

around the world who want to study its practices. The Clinic's journey also holds lessons for organizations outside health care that must suddenly compete by creating a superior customer experience. The authors, one of whom was critical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

click-through rates for non-paid algorithmic links and an 85% increase in click-through rates for paid advertising listings of competing online travel agencies. Moreover, the exclusive integration of search engine services into search... View Details