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Dafna Bearson

gaps between the skills that employees have and the skills they need to address modern challenges. Through one Lab project, Dafna is working with a team of scholars and industry partners to explore the implementation of a reskilling... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

close to our clients; that’s how we see the trends. We listen and we implement quickly. + ONLINE web-only content RU: Your cofounder and business partner is your husband, Barry Beck. Do you have any advice on how to select a cofounder?... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

our content to that market?” is a question that also drives off-mainstream sports—for example, hockey in Austria. We are currently on the way to implementing a new kind of live streaming channel which features only the most relevant... View Details

26 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health

establishing partnerships that help Medicare companies implement more patient-centered, outcome-driven care models. Pivoting into a Startup Before attending HBS, I worked in consulting, where I focused on health care payer/provider... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

stage of massive change and what we see in 10 or 20 years will be unimaginable – in a good way.” Mitch noted that even when “working with proven technology, the execution and implementation is the hardest part” and that “having an open... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience

Ballou worked on the front lines with local parent-teacher associations in Liberian villages to raise funds for textbooks and teacher salaries. The experience provided ample insight into "the huge problems that nonprofits have in getting projects View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

wasn't the issue—the division still had the superior technology overall. Nor was talent a problem—Becton Dickinson continued to retain the skilled engineers that had made it the leader in its field. The organization's design didn't seem to be the problem, either—the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

relentlessly attacked in the US" while those most affected by the act as implemented express "acquiescence or even mild praise." The paper, SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review, is scheduled to be published later... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

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Managing Family Strife: Market Baskets Lessons about Buyouts

You'd have to have been sleeping under a rock to miss the family war and media frenzy over Market Basket, the Boston-based, family-owned supermarket chain. The confrontation between two cousins (both named Arthur Demoulas) over control of the company was finally... View Details

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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

technology that enables value-based care. Since we are a small team we do not offer research delivery services such as data analysis, however we can work with you to guide your program to help achieve your goals. We prefer to collaborate on projects which are oriented... View Details

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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology

technologies and offerings with the broader HBS IT strategy, supporting operational efficiency, cross-team collaboration, and compliance. FinOps Tool Implementation: A new Cloud Financial Operations tool will be implemented to support... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

consult to, or invest in such organizations (e.g., payers, biopharmaceutical and device companies, health information technology, venture capital and private equity). Educational Objectives This course will help students develop the managerial skills required to... View Details

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Funa Maduka

want to be loaded down with new policy ideas, but wanted to learn how to implement them, how to incent others to follow." "The section experience is management in a microcosm," says Funa. "You're in a classroom with... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

and implement organizational strategies that complement and are integrated with their competitive strategies," he says. "In addition, firms' strategies must take into account the constraints and forces that act on the organization through... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges

tomorrow’s challenges. Four years ago, the School launched the field method in the MBA Program to provide first- and second-year students with field-based learning opportunities so they could implement and practice, in real time, what... View Details

25 Aug 2017
Blog Post

HBS Interns: Summer Takeovers

Toronto, before working in their offices in California and New York City. Anita worked with the CFO and COO to implement the executive search firm's new digital strategy. Jenn Volk, Sephora Innovation Lab Jenn Volk spent her summer in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Portrait Project

Nathalie duPreez

potential." Just as I had tried to fly as a three-year-old, now is the time to focus on the next impossible challenge: implementing change in the continent that has given so much to me, but so little to many of its other children. In... View Details

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The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

for the practical implementation of the Black-Scholes model. Within six months of the original publication of the Black-Scholes formula, it had become so widely used by traders at the CBOE that Texas Instruments produced a handheld... View Details

10 Sep 2020
News

The Business of Access

her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a merger with another homelessness... View Details

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