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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

this session, we will consider the implications of living in a permanent state of elevated turbulence. COVID has been an object lesson in having to continuously reassess changing conditions and adapt both strategy and operations to the... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

deficiencies—for example, that they lacked skills or were objects of charity, and also that they were not to be taken seriously as tech innovators. After establishing Code Fever’s Urban Innovation Lab in Overtown—a neighborhood that has... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

shortsighted, sub-optimal, and conflict-ridden. For example, when field sales, telesales, and customer service people all interact with the same account, the objective is flawless, efficient, timely service but the real result can be... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

31 Oct 2018
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Preaching with a Choir

have an undergraduate degree in Italian. I had no professional corporate business experience before I came to HBS. So for me, the HBS experience was transformational. I have been the general manager of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for 16 years. My View Details

01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business

“It’s making corporations question the boundaries of who and what they are accountable for in their communities.” Barrett presented guidelines for cross-sector partnerships to fight the epidemic at “HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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The Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog The Role of Government in Market Economies Course Number 1195 Professor Matthew Weinzierl Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Paper Course Overview and Objectives This course is about one question: What is the proper... View Details

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

that pettiness as a construct is distinct from generosity and stinginess: Even when people gave objectively larger or smaller amounts of money or time, doing so in a petty manner exerted an independent negative effect on relationships.”... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

recommended that students not take both of them. Educational Objectives Having a good strategy is not enough to succeed in today’s competitive environment. More than 50% of start-ups fail within five years and more than half of the... View Details

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives systems; the boundary systems that... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

2012
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Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: B. Staats and F. Gino

Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details

Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning

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10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog

(such that superior business results are sustainable) should take this course. Educational Objectives The objective of Managing Human Capital can be captured in a simple question: How can I create places... View Details

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

building trust in intercultural negotiations with an emphasis on cultural intelligence-the capacity to adapt effectively across cultures. From the Outside In: The Negative Spillover Effects of Boundary Spanners' Relations with Members of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

Taxes: An Analysis Perspective Harvard Business School Note 107-047 Provides an overview of accounting for deferred taxes. The primary objective is to provide external users with a basic understanding of deferred taxes. A simple... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again." 97 Land had the foresight to look beyond... View Details

13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

to developing a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard that places economic, environmental, and social objectives as the highest-level objectives. He faces the challenges of cascading the corporate Balanced Scorecard to operating units... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

advantages to having certification, I believe that it would be impractical...Unlike law or medicine, business knowledge is not easily quantified." Others objected to the idea that certification might somehow be a good response to the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972), MCC's deputy vice president,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

boundaries lie.” “Is a product getting ranked at the top because it genuinely has more desired features? Or is it just because I’m putting in some gibberish?” She says some of the urgency revolves around the fact that LLMs word their... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

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