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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Capability Development at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati, and Ryan Raffaelli. Jan W. Rivkin : Winner of the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference Best Research Methods Paper Award... View Details

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

than how businesses use it That same monitoring capability (used to fight terrorism) could be turned against American citizens if the regime ever lessened or abandoned its commitment to personal civil liberties.” Asher Rospigliosi... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Modules Leadership Principles Leadership Principles enables you to thrive as a leader, unleash the capabilities of others, and cultivate high-performing teams. This course leverages self-assessments, 360° feedback from colleagues, and... View Details

Portrait Project

Navroz D. Udwadia

with drinking water and electricity in every village. Millions of people exploring life, expressing talents and living in peaceful prosperity. An India governed by upright leaders capable of shepherding the country to its rightful place... View Details

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

industry? How will better data collection transform the ways in which we do clinical trials for new cancer drugs? It is both staggering and exciting to imagine how data and analytic capabilities will transform entire industries and it was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

capabilities reside in the team, and that great technical expertise is accessible to the team. Be prepared, and not surprised, by this kind of decision-making. In addition, ensure that all decisions are executed in the context of a deep... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

knowledge, and expertise—the key resources required in the development and diffusion of innovation worldwide. So this increasingly important capability really is about using one's global presence to promote worldwide innovation and... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

for a company. While necessary, these capabilities do not determine competitive success. An IT department that provides only a basic foundation of technology infrastructure and a standard set of application programs may adequately assess... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

employers. It is not that no attempts were made, in the meantime, to discover an underlying general theory that would inform the tasks of a manager. But the search for a theoretical model capable of explaining effective business... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Machine Learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV) - Research Computing Services

Software Tools Machine Learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV) 6ms The HBSGrid offers artificial intelligence(AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities through its Conda AI environment. This environment includes: Python... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

essential part of that future. The MS/MBA Program will tap into that, making certain to develop capabilities and leaders that will be an important part of this exciting and changing future.” Accelerating Innovation and Entrepreneurship By... View Details

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi

disparity, and the need for government to modernize itself and not impede the business process. "As a society, we recognize that the private sector is our most dynamic, innovative, and capable institution," Checchi asserts. "To continue... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Tsedal Neeley | About

and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the age of Data, Algorithms and AI introduces the "30% rule" outlining the minimum technology and change capabilities needed to succeed in a future driven by... View Details

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

of subordinates' capabilities or work; providing nonconstructive negative feedback on work done; checking on the status of assigned work for too long; and displaying lack of interest in subordinates' work or ideas); (2) failing to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

home. You also see what your favorite pundit has read since most seem to broadcast in front of their bookshelves.) The experience is different from working side by side as social animals, but thanks to 5G, internet, and cloud capability... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

Collaboration. You are not going to know all the answers; no one expects you to. This is a time for you to call on the resources, the capabilities of all of your employees, all of your team members, and bring them together in taskforces,... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization

democratized; accessed by a large percentage of employees, who consider it as ordinary as “running the numbers.” At the final stage, companies become a true experimentation organization, says Thomke. “It’s a little like breathing. People are empowered and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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