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- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact. Q: What are the chief impediments to strategy execution? A: The chief impediment is inertia. Over time, organizations tend to optimize the efficiency of their View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
basic system of HBS instruction. Doriot based the class on lectures (students were asked to listen and take notes, but not ask questions) and fieldwork. Teaching this single class for nearly 30 thirty years, Doriot continually reflected... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That same year, Christine L. Exley and Elena Battles launched a... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
http://hbr.org/product/decision-making-at-the-top-the-all-star-sports-ebusiness-division/an/314010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-027 Cisco Systems and Offshore Cash No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About
thinking will allow you to build organizations that serve humanity and operate profitably—in the words of our first Dean, Edwin Gay, organizations that make “a decent profit, decently.” “And” thinking will allow you to embrace technology... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
products, opened a new factory, and built up its financial reporting system from scratch. Two years after Darby’s investment, Sirma’s operational performance had improved. However, the company was still... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
enterprise for virtually all of its 114-year history. Philips's saga not only points to alignment challenges but also reminds us that regionalization is rarely a triumphal march from the home base to interregional platforms or mandates. Starting in the 1930s, Philips... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
when official production demands it. A homer lamp made by a blacksmith © Michel Anteby For those readers familiar with the HBS teaching case called "Slade," homer making functions a lot like the informal punching-out system... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
part of those plans, making sure students know what to expect and when is critical. Molly DeCastro, Assistant Director, Recruiting Operations with HBS Career and Professional Development, witnessed some of the earliest moves to remote... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
he always remained open to a better idea if someone truly believed in it. I only had a few days before I would have to cancel my HBS trip. Knowing that Grove by reputation was, above all, a manufacturing maven, I called Professor Bob Hayes, who was head of the... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, not based on Mexico's fundamentals, and weak regulation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Journal of Banking and Finance 19, nos. 3-4 (June 1995): 461-481. Merton, Robert C. "The Financial System and Economic Performance." Journal of Financial Services Research 4 (December 1990). Merton, Robert C. "A Functional Perspective of... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
uniquely individual model? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810098-PDF-ENG Systems Infrastructure at Google (A) Linda A. Hill and Emily A. SteckerHarvard Business School Case 410-110 This case describes how a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
relies on Costco as a distributional partner, which adds credibility as well as helps to the brand without overspending on advertising. A logistics system allows Vizio to import televisions from a manufacturer in China in just-in-time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon emissions—as a setting in which to examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne