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- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
governments to improve access to and uptake of malaria services in rural locations) to ensure they are agile and optimally positioned to help achieve and sustain malaria elimination. Why did you choose this internship for the summer?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
ecosystems—not just products. Create a network that brings together powerful partners engaged in complementary product and service innovation. Exploit leverage and power. If you have it, use your large size to advantage, but also be smarter and more View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
Organizations Remain Agile as They Grow? This note discusses how multiunit organizations incorporate flexibility into their management control systems, some by authorizing all or a select number of their dispersed units to make input and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
telling stories, how they make decisions that affect all students. Similarly, leaders have become teachers in knowledge-centric environments; they can’t just tell people what to do but must help them acquire ideas, information, and skills so they can be more... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
introduced to new tools (such as SQL) and new techniques (such as K-Means clustering, natural language processing, and Monte Carlo simulation). The course will also explore essential notions of data privacy, algorithmic fairness, and View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
autonomous/dedicated teams, which vary in their capacity to manage integration. More formal product development approaches including the stage-gate process and critical-path method are described, as are agile methods and principles—and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
network—should do to respond to its agile competitor, Facebook. Since its inception MySpace had experienced phenomenal growth, acquiring 20 million members in its first 20 months of operation, and another 70 million a year later, to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
women, using media or social media channels to drive that.” That’s the kind of agility Flatley wants. “How can we real-time gain those insights, and then either pivot our media strategies or make quick changes to the creative?” McDonald’s... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
can both strategy and execution be consistently superior? How can they support a collective culture yet enable high potentials to thrive as individuals? How can the strategy be global and local at the same time? And how can its policies endure yet be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
neighborhood real estate, all negotiations are chaotic in that they are fluid and not wholly predictable. Successful negotiators embrace that reality, so when conditions change—and they will—their agility allows them to sidestep pitfalls... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
negotiators thrive in the face of chaos and uncertainty. They don't trap themselves with rigid plans. Instead they understand negotiation as a process of exploration that demands ongoing learning, adapting, and influencing. Their agility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
whether improvements to firm operational efficiency aggravate or alleviate the impact of disruptions. Improved operational efficiency may leave firms more exposed when a disruption occurs, or it may improve firms' agility and allow them... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
faculty to address the most pressing business questions of the day with the same agility and speed at which technology is reshaping the marketplace. “HBS is the premiere business learning platform in the world,” Jacimovic says, “but the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Markets by Amanda Setili (MBA 1990) Career Press In this age of disruption, companies must be agile and courageous, reacting quickly and intelligently to the changes that are always unfolding. Packed with practical examples, tools, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
organizations. Whether it's citizens responding to government leaders or employees responding to their company leaders, no one likes being jerked around, but it's clear that versatility and agility is needed for dealing with the pandemic.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
established or subject to frequent changes, creating uncertainty for businesses. Entrepreneurs must be agile and proactive, staying abreast of legal developments and building relationships with local authorities to ensure compliance.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
results—the “service trifecta”; (6) use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) take steps to develop a core of customers who are “owners”; and (8) build agile service organizations that learn,... View Details
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
quality care she received later as a US citizen, is why she wants to work towards improving the health care system. MBA Voices Blog Post South Asia Fostering Agile Leadership HBS launched the Senior Executive Leadership Program—India five... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
other two skills are about the flip side of that creative output: creative agility is the ability to effectively experiment and learn; creative resolution is about making decisions that prevent simple compromise or domination by one... View Details