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08 May 2020
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog

(subordinates, superiors, and even members of other groups or organizations). The course design reflects the following assumptions: This ability is relevant to all students and is not strictly View Details

20 May 2020
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Experimentation and Its Discontents

13 Dec 2018
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What Research Associates Do at HBS

03 Sep 2024
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Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

the model, information leading to actual harm often contains specific details that receivers can act upon, such as a sender posting where and when receivers can gather to take part in potentially troublesome activities. By contrast,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Oct 2013
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Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

factories to "produce" them. Second, they often have to. A wide range of actors are typically involved in monitoring and shaping an organization's decisions; these parties want a say in what the organization... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

29 May 2001
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Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Miaomiao Zhang

Miaomiao Zhang is a doctoral candidate at the Technology & Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Miaomiao received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Economics from Emory Univeresity. She worked at the Strategy Unit at Harvard... View Details

25 Apr 2018
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Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

constraints, but more importantly, catalyze other investors through demonstration effects, creating and shaping markets in places where there are none today. As a financially autonomous, legally separate entity within View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

2023
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The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’

By: Jacqueline N. Lane

In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Research; Resource Allocation; Perception

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October 2014
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Leader-as-Architect: Alignment

By: Ethan Bernstein, Ryan Raffaelli and Joshua Margolis

Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity, and then managing four organizational components—formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical... View Details

Keywords: Organization; Resource Management; Leadership; Business Processes; Design; Organizational Design; Identity; Strategy; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Alignment

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11 Nov 2014
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to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2020
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Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth... View Details

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Technological Competition in Computing

By: Shane M. Greenstein

On what dimensions do computing platforms compete, and how does that competition help or hinder the deployment of technical standards? What principles shape choices over platform governance, and how do those choices shape competitive outcomes? In this line of... View Details

27 Jul 2006
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India, China Two Contrarian Forces

28 Apr 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on her how experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped to View Details

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

role of U.S. industrial policy in shaping national success. The full report offers key takeaways on the consensus around strategic policies and their impact on addressing major... View Details

05 Dec 2013
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