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- 2013
- Working Paper
Where do the Most Active Customers Originate and How Can Firms Keep Them Engaged?
By: Clarence Lee, E. Ofek and Thomas Steenburgh
In this paper, we study how firms offering Web services can acquire and develop an active customer base. We focus on two basic questions. First, how does the method of customer acquisition affect the way customers use the service to meet their own needs and to interact...
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MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management
By: Robert C. Merton
Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details
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Financial Crisis;
Market Participation;
Finance;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Value;
Distribution;
Capital Structure;
Risk Management;
Business Ventures;
Business Model;
Strategy
Merton, Robert C. "MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 20, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 20–38.
- August 2000
- Case
Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani
Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is...
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Trends;
Debates;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Higher Education;
Teaching;
Growth and Development;
Technological Innovation;
Leading Change;
Goals and Objectives;
Value Creation;
Health Industry
Christensen, Clayton M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine." Harvard Business School Case 601-039, August 2000.
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
may be nervous about exposing bad behavior on their own. Encourage systems that allow individuals to come together to protest unethical behavior. Consider the company’s organizational structure. Does the company View Details
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
this month, the topic is strategy planning and organization. Conventional thinking and organization that has encouraged us to seek sustainable competitive advantage in the past is being questioned in today's business environment. Some are...
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by James Heskett
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1.4.3 Required Curriculum (RC) - MBA
safe and intimate haven where, under the encouragement of mutual support, students can apply newly acquired skills and leadership abilities. It is one of the most formative and defining experiences at HBS. HBS understands that some...
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- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
the board but only on items selected as your inflation-busters. For cash poor consumers, these promotions should hit the key price points on small pack sizes. For cash rich consumers, encourage multi-unit purchases ahead of the inevitable...
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by John Quelch
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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Institute for Racial Reconciliation "I have a small cohort of colleagues and friends from the program. We meet virtually every other month to encourage one another to complete our stated goals (developed before completing the program),...
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Faculty & Research - Health Care
at HBS and health care is one of the ISC's core research areas. The Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) Led by Kathy Giusti and Richard Hamermesh who worked with health care leaders to develop a business framework that encourages...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates financing constraints, its core effect on the firm's innovative behavior is in fostering collaborations and translations between science and...
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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research
working at HBS and the RA experience is available . While challenging, the opportunity to contribute to the intellectual capital of HBS is greatly rewarding. Additionally, case researchers are encouraged to take part in the broad range of...
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1.2 MBA Honor Code - MBA
to be used by an instructor as part of a course or as a basis of grading. Act as stewards of the Honor Code in upholding its spirit and letter, and encouraging others to do so as well. The Honor Code is a commitment of the faculty,...
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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About
of the entire workplace with no exceptions. On the Harvard Business School Campus, smoking is not allowed within 25 feet of any building or building entrance. Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff We encourage faculty and staff to...
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Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
class session and encourage students to listen closely to each other. Effective listening goes beyond attention to the content of student contributions: it also includes: What is said and how it tracks with the class discussion and agenda...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
help them passionately give voice to uncommon beliefs. To encourage people to proclaim their dreams as loudly as their successes. To help them find the courage to stop trying to have it all and start having what really matters. To strive...
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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship
Career Treks. What’s the difference between the Rock Center and the i-labs? The Rock Center provides programming and events targeted to MBAs who come to campus with a high degree of business acumen. We do not offer workspace but encourage...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
use is the cheapest in India partly because of the system’s technological underpinnings. We still are a very poor country. It’s encouraging nonetheless that several scientists across several domains have been able to compete and...
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- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
your circle of competence, then operate inside that perimeter,” Huang advises. 2. Own your constraints and encourage others to see past them In Huang’s freshman year of college, she was shocked to fail a writing assignment. When she asked...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
information in a way that protects individual’s privacy. That’s where these privacy preserving techniques will have a huge potential impact, in my view.” But Make It Work for You As Aetna’s CMO from 2016 to 2020, HBS senior lecturer David Edelman oversaw an initiative...
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- November–December 2023
- Article
Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment
By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse C. Shore and Alice J. Jang
We study the connection between communication network structure and an organization’s collective adaptability to a shifting environment. Research has shown that network centralization—the degree to which communication flows disproportionately through one or more...
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Network Centralization;
Collective Intelligence;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Communication;
Decision Making;
Networks;
Adaptation
Bernstein, Ethan S., Jesse C. Shore, and Alice J. Jang. "Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment." Organization Science 34, no. 6 (November–December 2023): 2064–2096.