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- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap
believes we're asking the wrong question. "We need to reframe the situation," he says. "The real question is, do you have the time, energy and mindshare to go about your search process while performing up to your desired... View Details
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Philipp Schäelli
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I wanted to do an MBA for three main reasons: 1) Making the next step in my career, 2) Broaden my academic footing and 3) Expand my network of friends that follow a business career. From... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
model for delivering electricity to off-grid populations in the world. “There are 1.2 billion people who have no access to electricity,” Jaegle says. “Millions cannot afford grid power or rely on it; elementa uses proven technology in a solar-thermal View Details
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Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case
formal authority/ownership, so that they can execute on the plan of action created during the Personal Case process. The next step is to frame the problem as either a Performance Gap (i.e., the organization as a whole or a specific group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
feedback from taxpayers and employees as well as measures of meaningful business results, was a critical step in changing attitudes. How did you improve customer service? There were no quick fixes or silver bullets. The IRS had to... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
How to Think About Networking
know more about the role. That puts you into the second circle distant from you, and these folks in turn can send you onward to the outer circle, where you have the clearest connection to the desired role. The second image with target organizations or individuals in... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large UK banks over a period of six years. Our analysis highlights that a process we term toolmaking, whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
to determine whether TDABC could improve the accuracy of cost information and identify value-improvement opportunities for two types of heart-value procedures. Using TDABC, leaders gained a detailed look into process View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside outsiders" ever make it into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- Blog
Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
Management for Corporate Leaders in 2016 when she was working at QIC, an Australian-headquartered asset management firm. The timing for the program could not have been better; Barnes was just stepping into a new role leading QIC's... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally and professionally. The program... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1976, 5. Polaroid advertisements featured the testimony of Polaroid users who claimed their cameras had made them "the life of the party." 78 "The entire process of pose,... View Details
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
customer value proposition Analyze each step of the branding process 8 hrs Module 2 Brand Storytelling Articulate the characteristics of a compelling brand story and assess the power of storytelling on... View Details
- 07 Jan 2020
- News
Models of Success
For Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018), who grew up in the town of Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126, basketball was a stepping stone to success in the wider world. The skills she had honed playing against the boys in her hometown earned... View Details
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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
structures and systems should be configured to ensure that the firm delivers superior value to these (and only these) customers. Making this critical decision involves two steps. Step 1: Identify your constituents The first View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
experience. Next Steps With the initial data tracked and scored, the researchers are now working with the US Census Bureau to build an even larger set of management data. Last spring they conducted a survey of more than 48,000 US... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Recipe
Ask Philip Jones (OPM 32, 2003), CEO of Jones Dairy Farm, to name a favorite from the company’s products and he’ll demur (it’s like picking a favorite child) before fessing up: It’s the roll sausage, made from his great-great-great-grandmother’s recipe of pork, salt,... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
assurance that decision-making will be transparent and participatory, particularly for those that are marginalized in the domestic political process and (d) assessing the political risks faced by those who participate in its consultation... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details