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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

employees, and now as executives, educators, and researchers. Attendees will gain an understanding of past actions and current plans to improve DEI at HBS, as well as new insights on advancing DEI beyond... View Details

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Families in Business

practices, and family structures. Collaborating with family members and colleagues to build an action plan for your business, you’ll shape your family’s future and prepare to lead your business through each... View Details

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Growing as a Purposeful Leader

effectively in today's business environment, you will discover how to move purpose from words on a page and planning sessions to reality, by reflecting the purpose across day-to-day operations and creating an environment that can result... View Details

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Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting - Recruiting

has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources and recommendations from experts at the Harvard Business School, along with View Details

November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
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Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Andrew Katz, Michael Morgan and David LaBorde

The Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) across all of its hospitals and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues such as standardization of care,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry

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Managing Innovation

companies across the globe. With new insight into innovation processes, you will be ready to take action and lead a highly creative, innovation-focused culture that can consistently deliver results. This program is eligible for the... View Details

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Advancing Racial Equity

structural racism has been ignored for too long. We hear the calls for the School to move swiftly to address the impacts of racism on our campus and in higher education. Two-Year Action Plan Update School... View Details

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Building a Legacy

solutions to your wealth management challenges Develop an action plan for initiating an intergenerational transfer Implement best practices for separating operating assets and family office assets Make key... View Details

26 Apr 2024
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Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

taking confident, decisive action can make the difference between winning and losing. Despite getting criticism, Sanders believed in his plan and was able to create a winning team by creatively taking... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

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Curriculum - MBA

Designing Technology Ventures Joint Course Launching a successful startup requires a business model that defines the venture’s customer value proposition; plans for technology, operations, and marketing; and a formula for eventually... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Americans with Disabilities Act Welfare reform Antitrust action initiated against Microsoft Influence: Medium-Low 1900 19 Fewer than 500,000 union members Department of Commerce and Labor created Influence: Medium 10 1910 19 Ford doubles... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

energy transition in the United States is being driven by public policy, community engagement, and new funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. He explains the U.S. EPA’s role in balancing climate View Details

17 Aug 2020
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What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

kidnapping, from a fire in an office block to an airliner crash in the jungle.” “People who survive disasters are the ones who are able to regain cognitive function quickly, assess their new environment accurately, and take goal-directed View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Insights & Advice Blog

information. As his career progressed, Kurtz thrived in leadership roles, excelling at turning around businesses and building startups from the ground up. He embraced the challenge of leading through change, relying on creative problem solving and strategic View Details

April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
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NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G

By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno

The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and... View Details

Keywords: 5G; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry

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24 Jul 2023
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Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

recommends three actions to business leaders: Label the issue for employees. For too long, workplace norms around benefits have continued unchallenged. “Make it discussable,” Fuller says. “The issue of employee’s broader needs was... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual

assets toward powerful ends, and how they brought those they led along in pursuit of their respective missions. You will leave the program with an array of actionable learning outcomes, including the development of your own personal... View Details

27 Nov 2006
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Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

appear invulnerable blocked precisely the kinds of actions that encourage safety and effectiveness. Covering up mistakes, for example, curtails learning and allows for the repetition and escalation of errors. In complex systems with high... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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MBA Experience - Leadership

Corporate Governance & Boards of Directors Professor Jay W. Lorsch and Professor and Senior Associate Dean Lynn S. Paine Spring Leadership Execution & Action Planning Senior Lecturer David G. Fubini and... View Details

14 Feb 2022
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Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

require digital transformations to be more iterative than other forms of corporate change. Leaders need to catalyze change rather than plan for it. That means creating the initial conditions for the organization to achieve its ambitions... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

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