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25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

fuzzy logic, and you have the makings of Nicholas Carr's article. Carr's examples of railroads and electric power played out over eighty years, (not forty, as he suggests), turning society, business organizations, and lifestyles inside... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

establishing a family precedent for service. “I turned to Leadership Fellows because I was interested in contributing to the social good,” says Mizuho. “For those of us entering the social space fulltime for the first time, it’s a great... View Details

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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

with the level of technology adoption in modern times. However, the paper states, the data set from AD 1500 turned out to be "an excellent predictor of per capita income today." According to the research, when a geographical area had a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Jay Katatumba

deliver the news and I even bought a “Harvard Dad” t-shirt which I knew he would proudly wear. Things took an unexpected turn that February when shortly before Papa’s planned travel, he suffered some sharp stomach pains, which View Details

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

conclusions about the costs of hiding information carry implications for individuals and companies alike. It turns out that who benefits from disclosing information has everything to do with how they reveal it. Match Game In What Hiding... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

2000). But it is also politically harder to sustain then, for example, the Thai "dual track" strategy with growth impulses for both exporting and local activities that turned out to generate broad-based public support (Looney,... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

employees who strive for feedback and self-improvement, mean that day-to-day managerial life will increasingly be infused with employee-related analytics,” says Polzer. Turning to how data is analyzed, Dennis Campbell, of the Accounting... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

students who take the course in the future.” Contemplating change at Pho Hoa Like any good HBS case, “Pho Hoa” doesn’t present a pat answer to the business challenges at hand. It does note that Tam Le has already turned around Pho Linh,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

The enterprise continued to make money even as it turned slowly to lose market share in a post-monopoly world. The positive net income helped greatly in supporting complacency. In frustration, his change agents waited and waited for a... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

Portrait Project

Ratnika Prasad

my city. When my father died shortly before I turned 13, his loss was devastating but also cemented my determination to shape a career in sustainability. While my approach to being an “environmentalist” is certainly not by the book, I... View Details

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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA

our cause. Once we’ve built a strong foundation of volunteers, we will turn on our matching algorithm to automatically match volunteers with errand requests from those who need help nearby. What’s Ahead of Us The response we’ve gotten so... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

can turn on 'novice' mode to get more information when using the commands: $ module --novice Note: After using modules for some time, you might be tempted to include module load directives in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc login... View Details

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

necessary, but it turned out that our scope could be much smaller, and it would still have a great impact. 4. Get really out there – within reason. Throughout the design sprint, Jake taught us a tool called “time boxing.” Whenever we did... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

when the soap wasn’t foamy,” Hussam says. And because all people in the experiment ate meals with their hands, they were turned off by heavily perfumed soap, which interfered with the taste of their food. So the experiment avoided... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and labor. Harvard economists David... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

GenZers’ need for “connection” be any less than that of preceding generations? Has the pandemic so affected their outlook and behavior that they in turn will affect the way work is performed and businesses are organized and led? Have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

turned over 75 percent of the assortment, tripled net direct product profitability, and increased sales. When she advanced again, she moved back into the marketing department as senior vice president of small business and retail... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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Wombi Rose

How does a person go from naval engineering to producing high-end greeting cards? For Wombi Rose, MBA 2015, the journey took an important turn in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. "There is no better way to get to know your classmates than... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing/Energy; Retail/Hospitality

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