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- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
"T-shaped managers," that is, they focus on individual unit performance (the vertical part of the T) and contributions across units (the horizontal part of the T). BP has put in place several mechanisms to nurture T-shaped...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
What was your undergraduate university and major? I have an MSc in mechanical engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France) and another MSc in aerospace engineering from Supaéro (Toulouse, France). Why did you decide to apply...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
longer work. Revival of the Fittest offers detailed examples of how a diverse range of companies — from IBM, Samsung, and Nokia to the Danish hearing-aid maker Oticon and Asahi Breweries in Japan — have used transforming commitments to...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
over the past several years. Q: What is the greatest functional value the Apple Watch offers to the consumer? A: What Apple brings to the table is user integration within their existing ecosystem. In the same way that the iPhone did when...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
If the category of offerings known as “immersive experiences” were a soup, it would probably have to be a gumbo—a saucy and colorful assemblage of potentially disparate things. And while it’s rooted in familiar traditions, it’s also open to whatever bright new ideas or...
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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
financial risk. Our findings highlight the challenges of using ACOs as a mechanism to achieve financial cost savings. Bundled payments, which focus on narrower episodes of care, may involve fewer operational complexities and be better...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
with Anant Thaker (HBS MBA 2011) of the Boston Consulting Group and Howard Rudnick of the Tobin Project, Moss offers an alternative perspective: Perhaps we've been looking at the question the wrong way. Inequality And Making Decisions In...
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by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
chain. However, companies that weren’t born as platform businesses rarely realize that they can—at least partially—turn their offerings into one, say the authors. And even if they do realize it, they often wander in the dark searching for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
not actual practices. This introduction and conclusion from a recent working paper, "Product and Labor Markets Globalization and Convergence of Corporate Governance: Evidence from Infosys and the Indian Software Industry," looks at corporate governance View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
improvement. Whether induced learning through the use of deliberate learning activities provides additional performance benefits has been neglected. We argue that the use of deliberate learning activities offers performance benefits...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
include a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and patented novel technologies for self-driving vehicles. “But I don’t want to just make an app that delivers Instacart items five seconds sooner. My career vision is to tackle difficult...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
local, regional, and national competitiveness. “Former entrepreneurs offer a positive impression of what it's like to own your own business.” In recent research, Harvard Business School professor Ramana Nanda analyzes these deeper layers...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
Executive Education group delivered strong revenue growth in fiscal 2014. Although total participant enrollment was essentially flat with the prior year at nearly 10,000, tuition revenues grew 12 percent to $163 million, from $146 million in fiscal 2013. This growth...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
circumstances, including human purposes, evolved. While the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism can balance supply and demand on a global basis, or in subunits thereof, the visible hand of political authority is essential to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
borrower protections for small businesses. If offering a national regulation option to fintech players is the proverbial carrot, compliance with commonsense borrower protections could be the stick. This is important as the lack of rules...
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