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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
employs an enviable tactic: "I eat," he laughs. "I'm always nibbling and testing - my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie." No Typical Days An excellent set of taste buds is one obvious asset in the food business, but other qualities and View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
nontraditional expansion strategy of entering the developed markets of Europe and the United States as a niche player before venturing into Middle Eastern and neighboring Asian markets. Looking ahead to the next decade, Haier CEO Zhang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
you like about that work? Do you think it's particularly well suited to MBAs? Do you use your MBA skills in what you do? Lin: Yeah, I mean, it depends on which part of the process. There's so many different parts of the process, but... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
costs and profit margins; initial sales also influence the venture's trajectory of organizational skills because firms develop capabilities and routines in interactions with customers. There is also an opportunity cost: money, time, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
members-only shopping site Gilt Groupe with classmate Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004). Now Girls Who Code students work as summer interns at the Gilt Groupe. The nonprofit has middle school and high school clubs in more than 20 states.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
increasing rate" and held "long-term consequences that could include overpopulation, war/terrorism, and environmental destruction." But one respondent asserted that "the gap may widen but the lot of the poor will improve enormously - is... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Reenen Abstract—We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
and job-training programs-have tended to operate in silos. But they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
individual. Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned." “Our... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
less control over their strategy than they think while middle managers and operating managers can have a much greater role in strategy than is generally recognized by either those managers or by top management: But the complexity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
best feminist book on American popular culture. Margaret’s focus on the midlife (in Safe at Last in the Middle Years and Declining to Decline ) has expanded into the field of Age Studies, now institutionalized in two international... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
allies. There's also a big gap between how these countries view Americans, the people, and America, the country. I have survey data in the book that show that. So why aren't we mobilizing more Americans to do good around the world?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
have workers who can do the job openings at a time when millions of Americans are looking for work That's inexcusable." 2 Eureka Ed, Inc. focuses on closing the gap in American STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education.... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
products, including SVAR, a spoken-English evaluation; Automata, a programming skills evaluator; a customer service test; and TESLA, a suite of products that assessed and provided certification for vocational skills. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
grenade, which is a very unsophisticated weapon, in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountains, where you can't get around easily. And so to be in the right place at the right time with that kind of a weapon system, it just wasn't making... View Details