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wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the first African American tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
Dave Cote and his team brought to managing their company during the Great Recession. The shift to managing companies for short-term financial interests has been an increasing trend among US businesses, leading to a focus on actions that... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
expansion," Ghemawat argues. While identifying similarities from one place to the next is essential, effective cross-border strategies will take careful stock of differences as well. An expert on global strategy, Ghemawat lays out an View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to come up with a viable business... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Americans have the option to opt into green energy through their utility provider. I don't know what current rates are today, but this is actually the next action that we're building into the app as well this month is guidance for... View Details
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Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
take the ideas further, starting with The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (1996) and The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment (2000). Most recently,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
systemic restructuring driven by providers, health plans and other stakeholders. Redefining Health Care describes the roles that consumers should play in a value-based system, and the expectations they should set for health View Details
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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity
Action Plan Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. Like many of the organizations we study, Harvard Business School is at risk of declaring a lot of good intentions and goals and then... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
across the country. Urban Adaptation & Mumbai’s Climate Action Plan By 2030, India is expected to be the third largest economy in the world with a GDP of almost $8.5 trillion. Historically, countries... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
strategic vision and actionable ideas for their firms. Next month, the School will host a third offering of its Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning for some seventy business-school educators from Singapore and Greater... View Details
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IT Strategy: Building a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategy for HBS IT | Information Technology
worked together to build an action plan that would guide how we introduce and continue to drive forward various DEI activities for staff in HBS IT. This included workstreams focused on community engagement,... View Details
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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
their employees for complex conditions and bring in house care for common conditions. Key Action Steps for Employers Set the goal of increasing health value, not minimizing health benefit costs Develop program for employee wellness in the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
actions any more than you'd let them dictate yours." As a result, Wheeler is skeptical about one-size-fits-all negotiation strategies. An approach that succeeds in one context could be disastrous in another. That makes him equally... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
promotions with peers, Rice writes. Or when employers produce diversity plans that lack the rigor that is expected of every other part of the business practice—a fact-based diagnosis of the problem, quantifiable goals, interim progress... View Details
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion | Baker Library
actions outlined in HBS' action plan for Advancing Racial Equity & Diversity . As members of the Harvard Library community, we stand in unity with Our Responsibilities: A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
actions to boost America's competitive standing-one decision at a time. That call to action lies at the heart of the School's new US Competitiveness Project, chaired by Porter and Rivkin and involving a team... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Education Sector
summer, I'm interning at KIPP, a public charter school network that aims to lower the achievement gap in K-12 education by serving underserved communities. I'm currently working on two projects: developing a 4-year strategic plan for the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
which opened in San Luis Obispo, California, in 1996, was an instant hit, with its open kitchen where customers could watch bakers in action and smell the intoxicating aromas of breads baking all day long. It offered a simple selection of... View Details