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- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
one where orders need to be made before demand is realized. In our analysis, the latter situation corresponds to a newsvendor model with the additional decision of choosing a sales effort to increase demand at a convex increasing cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
you need heroic leaders in order to have meaningful, sustained change. Why Change Efforts Fail "Change is one of the few areas where experts have been in violent agreement for decades," declares David A. Garvin, Robert and Jane... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
learned--and that many of these skills require executives to rethink their conception of what a superb leader actually does. Developing and practicing these skills requires hard work and may demand that talented executives overcome some degree of discomfort and even... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
process redesign. Over the years, the CIO job has remained a hot seat in business and has, in turn, become a key management position in executing a company's competitive cost structure and strategy. It has become a key senior management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
and agility in their processes. Accelerate takes those steps and "turbocharges them," he says. Under a dual operating system, all processes and activities that involve what a company already knows how to do stay on the regular,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Web
From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
and various roads to success. Assessing Your Fit Due to the risk involved in choosing the wrong CEO, companies are placing increased emphasis on assessment as part of the search, and this process is equally important for candidates.... View Details
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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- Web
1.12 Clearance for Return - MBA
Depending on all of the relevant circumstances, such consultation may be initiated either by HBS or by clinicians at HUHS. Notice that a student has been hospitalized or treated in an emergency department of an area hospital may prompt HBS to begin a View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
organizations like Doctors Without Borders, responding to a disaster, will necessarily have more complex operational strategies. In order to provide shelter and food, they have to control an elaborate supply chain, from procuring tents,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
User research suggested that the checkout process could be improved. Hypothesis: Displaying the checkout date when selecting the number of children improves the user experience (by adding clarity). Result: Treatment had a significant... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and basically starve the other businesses of resources and ultimately exit them. So that was the first five years of my administration, and it worked out extraordinarily successfully. So within five years, we had gone from about 100 Dunkin’ Donuts shops to something on... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
recover after the attacks. Underlying this framework is a central conundrum: Why did the Taj employees stay at their posts, jeopardizing their safety in order to save hotel guests? And is this level of loyalty and dedication something... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
doubt when they fail to fully disclose bad news about themselves. While on the face of it, Luca's findings would seem to contradict John's paper, in reality, the two studies complement each other, showing just how subtle can be the way we View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
reliable. Physician referrals should be based on excellent patient results, together with the ability of referred providers to share information and integrate care across the entities involved in the care cycle. Improve the process of... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
a startup Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors Who Will Benefit Aspiring Entrepreneurs Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Students Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur with the start of an idea or are... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
errors when making decisions. Fortunately, behavioral economics offers tools to help people reach better outcomes. By changing the environment in which choices are made, for example by changing the process used to select options from a... View Details