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15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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Juan Leung Li

Juan draws on his own career journey and his experience supporting tech entrepreneurs and executives to coach students. Most career paths look like a straight line in hindsight -- those cases are rare. In reality, discovering fulfilling jobs and leading impactful... View Details

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20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

levers differently, which partly explains the variation in Walmart's performance throughout the years. Under Sam Walton, the company's performance improved due mainly to the adoption of new technologies as well as low prices obtained from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2024
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New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

Watch Solara at the 2024 New Venture Competition. 2024 Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite: SeaCycle - Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) - Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. 2024 Tough Technology Prize Winner:... View Details

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

compare prices over the web irons out cross-border price differences and expands trade. A poor farmer in India can check commodity prices on the Internet before he sells his crop to the local buyer. Thanks to a progressive decline in data processing and storage costs,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

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Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji - Blog: RGE Report

can't be aware until technology is developed to reveal to them what their minds are actually doing. My students and I have been at work for the last four decades, or so, doing research to develop methods that will allow us to reveal to... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or something altogether... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback

venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

experiences of several companies, the authors illustrate the dangers of conforming to market pressures for unrealistic growth targets. They argue that an overvalued stock, by encouraging overpriced acquisitions and other risky, value-destroying bets, can be as damaging... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

one of the things you talk a lot about, too, in the book is the fact that being the CEO is a lonely job. Right? That it's lonely at the top. And I wonder in those moments who you would reach out to. Or how you dealt with that, generally. JI: So I went from running a... View Details

27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

instead reflect more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Illicit Invention: Tracing Technological Development in the Shadow of the Law... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Henry McCance

a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had spent 40 years as eyewitness to advances in technology that changed the world at... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

technology, health and consumer care, and renewable energy. His scope of work to date encompasses the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, and multiple African countries. In our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

children’s mental health ser-vices. In 2004, Youth Villages sought Bridgespan’s help in developing a strategic growth plan that charted expansion into six states, called for building a business development unit, and introduced new... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Mar 2013
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How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Xylem, which offers water technologies and services. "Sometimes it's one or the other, but we're trying to integrate the two. We don't want people to see it as turning away from higher ambition." On The Ground What kinds of strategies do... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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