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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
for faculty members or help them pursue a particular avenue of inquiry across regions. More recently, the responsibilities of HBS global outposts have expanded to include helping to facilitate student immersions in a variety of markets...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
constantly evolving-the options facing Shapiro and HUGE must be considered in light of an industry structure that blurs the lines across competitors, complements, and clients and could easily shift for or against digital agencies such as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
of our clients who saw how we managed to overcome the crisis.” —Antonio Madero, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sanluis Corporation (a leading Mexico-based automotive parts maker) Silverthorne: Was this focus on reputation development pushed...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
understood that it was critical to gain practical experience outside of academia. I decided to join McKinsey & Company, motivated to attain the best possible position to provide me with the essential business experience I lacked. That was the start of a multiyear...
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- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
non-scorecard users. Based on our research and client work, we created a model to describe the roles and responsibilities of an OSM, as described in the recent Harvard Business Review article. Some of these...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
delivered for more than 6,300 global participants, representing an increase of 40 percent compared with fiscal 2021. The group also delivered custom programs in a range of industries, on-boarding 18 new clients into the portfolio and...
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- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
strong brand, robust growth in international and domestic markets, and premium price and margins, Natura was consistently rated as one of the preferred places to work in Brazil. Its focus on social and environmental responsibility was a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
problems for colleagues. They are demanding to the point of being abusive, they make promises to clients that their colleagues cannot meet, they take too much credit for success, and they generally are unable to adhere to commonly shared...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
decisions more quickly and reliably. Case 3: Preempt the threats Brazil Energy Biomass is an energy producer, generating steam from biomass and selling the energy to industrial clients in take-or-pay contracts. The company has two plants...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
so everyone knows not to expect an immediate response during certain chunks of the day. And, if a manager starts sending out emails on Sunday mornings because that’s her own best time to work, she should make it clear that her...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
through, we probably never would have done it!” When the magazine was sold three years later (the pair oversaw its publication while attending HBS), the subscription base numbered some 75,000 readers nationwide. Ferguson then moved on to Bain & Company in New York,...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
in health care and the significant challenges that remain in realizing its full potential. Slides Deeply Responsible Business Leaders in History Professor Geoffrey G. Jones + More Info – Less Info This talk looks at the cases of...
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- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
each pod having ultimate responsibility for its queue of patients. Because of the staggered and differing shifts, the entire team membership could changeover in as little as five hours. The qualitative data showed better coordination...
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- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
him as he prepared to land in Boston after a long transcontinental flight. Now let's continue the story. At the end of the flight Jeff felt that all his ruminations about his many pressures and responsibilities had left him more tired...
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by Kim Girard
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
denying responsibility for failures, and attributing the problem to others or to "the system." We would prefer to move on to something more pleasant. Rigorous analysis of failure requires that people, at least temporarily, put...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
capital would provide sufficient loss absorption when called upon, would there be sufficient demand for this new instrument, would it be cost effective capital, and what were the risks to Credit Suisse' reputation with clients and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
own self-interests, and any would-be negotiation genius needs to understand how to deal with these obstacles. Our advice is this: be very careful before labeling someone "irrational." Whenever our students or clients tell us...
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by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- Web
Electricity - Business & Environment
Ecometano/MDCPAR “Our goal is to provide our corporate clients in Brazil with cost efficient low carbon energy solutions. Ecometano has pioneered the upgrading of high BTU biogas from landfills and other biomass to energy solutions in the...
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