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- 01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on competition and View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for Organizational Fitness, outline six... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
BANCEL Throughout 2009 and 2010, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) had received upward of 20 calls from biotech companies asking him to come aboard and lead the company. It made sense. He was a highly recruited CEO successfully running... View Details
- 31 Aug 2004
- News
More companies tap location, location, location of inner cities
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Larry Murphy
managed and which customers rate as a top Disney offering. “We considered joint ventures with established cruise lines, but to do it the Disney way, we realized we had to own and run it ourselves.” Murphy, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
about the future of lighting. That’s not their business. But that’s a challenge, and that’s the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of making sure the country is maintaining a broader set of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
strategy can stretch an agency’s core capabilities and push it in unintended directions. If a nonprofit doesn’t develop (its) operating mission and strategy platform in a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
educational platform. The gift was made through the Lemann Foundation, a nonprofit organization Lemann and his family created in 2002 to enhance the quality of public education in Brazil. "Investing in innovation to promote large-scale social change is a pillar of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business School, consider what it takes to land a job as a consultant at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the United States and other countries.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
The Boston Globe has a long feature on Brian Shortsleeve (MBA 2001), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) new chief administrator. The piece notes Shortsleeve’s challenge: $5.5 billion in debt and a $7 billion maintenance backlog, and pushback on his... View Details
- 01 Jan 2014
- News
Competing with Privacy
- 18 Apr 2014
- News
Making “Freemium” Work
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
mistakes. Managing Health Care Business Strategy by George B. Moseley III (MBA ’65) (Jones & Bartlett) This textbook examines strategic planning and management in the special environment of health-care organizations. View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
coordination across activities and units. Both structure and processes must align with strategy. Commitment: An organization’s leadership has to provide financial and other incentives that align with strategy and goals to ensure broad... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
policies; leadership that unites and inspires; and respect for the Constitution and rights of all citizens. While this probably sounds familiar—and depressing— Gehl and Porter emphasize that it is entirely fixable. Their View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was established to share with other... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg