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Laura Mackay
Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I had gotten to a point in my professional career where I was in leadership positions, yet did not have the capabilities I needed to be an effective leader. Having... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States. The real lesson of this experience is that investing directly in corporate assets is a very different experience, and creates a distinct return profile, than investing as a portfolio investor. In the absence of a unique capability... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors This field-based study of the Union of European Football Associations and its main international sporting event,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Read This and Write
Koruth Courtesy Monisha Koruth “If you are capable of reading this article, you are capable of writing a short story,” says Monisha Saldanha Koruth (MBA ’01), cofounder and director of London’s Momaya Press,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
Maria Fernandez (AMP 187, 2014) is the deputy secretary of the Intelligence and Capability Group for the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection. In this interview, she describes how her department’s intelligence... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
difficult than suspected. During the boom years, when all seemed well, capabilities that underpin innovation in a wide range of products were continuing to deteriorate. My HBS colleague Willy Shih and I described in “Restoring American... View Details
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
innovative ideas. Educational Objectives: This course has three overarching learning objectives. Students will learn: When to be a first mover and innovate and when to strategically imitate and follow others in the market How to build View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa
for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), she says, “We are training very capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of them.” Established in 2008, CREATE! establishes... View Details
Charles G. Mortimer
Mortimer presided over an intensive period of growth and investment at General Foods. He dramatically expanded the company’s production capabilities and pursued acquisitions to balance the company’s product offerings. During his tenure,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
started developing them have ceased to exist as independent entities. In those cases in which the skills and capabilities that characterized new ecosystem domains were distinct enough to justify a truly focused strategy (for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
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Paul Sternhell
I did not imagine that I could be a successful student until a fourth grade teacher showed me a better way to study. My leadership capabilities went unused before friends encouraged me to run for club officer positions in college. If you... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Alex Popa, MBA 2007
prime minister’s cabinet before coming to HBS. “Giving shouldn’t be about age,” Popa insists. “It should be about capability and what really matters.” His fellowship gift—to support MBA students with a strong interest in genomic research,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
on the country's industrial commons, which represents the collective capability to sustain innovation. Gary Pisano: Is there a future? Yes. It's not too late. There's still a manufacturing base in the United States, and it's quite large... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily the best response. With that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
standards of the Internet and willing to transfer databases to a "rival supplier" in the event of an unsatisfactory relationship (Joshua Doherty), and those maintaining a highly focused in-house R&D capability while... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Aditya Dhanrajani
to inspire them to build. I will build, for I am capable and have been given the opportunity to do so. And I want to build that cardboard car again...but this time in green. View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
risks that would draw on "the government's unique strengths as a risk manager without short-circuiting either the essential capabilities or the relentless discipline of the private market." View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
providers, healthcare systems, and even countries. Similar value-based breast cancer care frameworks are also being pursued internationally. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50865 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
pledge to take one additional step beyond their current activities to strengthen the capabilities and business prospects of domestic enterprises. For example, they could promise to: Add a mentorship program in which executives advise... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
very open, comfortable environment.” A presentation on the second day showcased the many capabilities of AlumniMagnet, which every HBS club will be adopting in the coming months. “This program offers a strong suite of tools to help... View Details