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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
confronting today and the skills and capabilities leaders will need to effectively address those problems. From there we can think about the curricula, research agendas, and questions arising from that. It’s worth pointing out that a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
around these services, emphasizing the relevancy of these tools to people’s daily professional life. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Kathleen Jackson, MBA 1986, worked closely with the School to identify a vendor capable... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
like push email with its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave them a first-mover advantage, but as technology improved and data capabilities on wireless voice networks evolved rapidly and took off, the advantage turned to a burden with... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
competition. They do so by initially differentiating themselves to develop distinctive capabilities, but subsequently integrate these capabilities with those of the core units. At the corporate level, the new units demonstrate their value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
encouraged, but neither activity engages the unique skills and capabilities of business. Consider the typical corporate volunteer program. It almost invariably draws on the lowest common skills in a company by mobilizing people to do... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
Space Missions, Science, and Technology Management. In that role, he will be helping the agency and the UAE to develop and manage its short- and long-term space mission projects and to develop the UAE’s capability in science and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
and climate of bordering Iran, is capable of producing saffron that bests the benchmark in color, taste, and aroma, says the cofounder of the new social enterprise company Earth2Globe. The still-small 1,700 acres of Afghanistan’s saffron... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in small groups within the company and time off to pursue their own... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
electricity. One of the companies operating at the port had a huge number of nacelles lined up in the port waiting to be assembled into new turbines. The nacelle we went inside was the size of a small apartment and capable of producing 8... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
enterprise is the best contribution he could ever hope to make to society. "Will the research capability of the company-our ability to discover breakthrough drugs-be stronger when I leave than when I arrived at Merck? Will our company be... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Rajiv. Bajaj acknowledges there's still much he wants to do, particularly as India takes its place as a world economic power. "We still have to address some lingering problems in my country," he says, "including an inadequate infrastructure, inflexible labor policies,... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors By: Lund, Ragnar, and Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—Organizations in the field of sports are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
argument is more basic. It is that the innovative capabilities critical to maintaining industrial leadership are being threatened and need defending. Rebuilding the industrial commons will, they argue, require efforts by both government... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
appliances to turn on when rates were at their lowest. Plus smart meters, monitors, and sensors capable of two-way communication would allow for a more efficient reaction time if an outage was detected, rather than relying on field... View Details
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
Therefore, the essence of general management is to understand and fully harness the capabilities of the human resources available. Decision making goes far beyond merely knowing what one wants to accomplish. It requires developing a... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
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David Soled
to call classmates, friends, and mentors; a broader sense of self and responsibility to leave an impact in the world; and an even bigger drive to accomplish things I didn't even know I was capable of. Oh, and I will definitely be leaving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
original Hendersonianism: “In this new environment, the essence of strategy is not the structure of a company’s position in products and markets, but the dynamics of its behaviors. The goal is to identify and develop the hard-to-imitate organizational View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
the problem rather than a crucial part of the solution—and this is a mistake. The district office plays an important role in developing strategies, identifying and spreading best practices, developing leadership capabilities at all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne