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- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
chair, Professor Mike Toffel, to refine and implement a strategy designed to leverage BEI’s intellectual capital, its network, and its executional capabilities. She will also be responsible for overseeing BEI’s overall strategy and... View Details
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Ethan S. Bernstein | Working Knowledge
and Tokyo. Tapped by Elizabeth Warren in 2010 to join the implementation team at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he spent nearly two years in executive positions, including Chief Strategy Officer and Deputy Assistant Director of... View Details
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Tools & Services | Information Technology
leaders who make a difference in the world. We ’ re here to help you identify and implement flexible and easy-to-use tools that empower you to teach, learn, and work more effectively every day. Browse our services to discover what you can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details
- 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
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
explain how to generate ideas with these skills, collaborate with "delivery-driven" colleagues to implement ideas, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. They also provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog
(due to the nature of IFCs, auditing is not permitted) Career Focus Decarbonization and sustainability are becoming an essential part of business agendas, and some companies and organizations in Europe lead the world in experimentation and View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Gould. “The issue being that if you don’t have women executives, you’re not going to have the right candidates to move to boards.” In 2012, the United Kingdom implemented a mandatory “comply or explain” system through the UK Corporate... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
converting planning to action. The MCAP contains ambitious mitigation and adaptation goals but lacks specific funding sources or enabling legislation. Therefore, the MCAP remains a suggestion document rather than a concrete plan for View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
female employee. In others, the employer was presented with the round-one results of only one male or female employee—a separate evaluation. "This paper has insights that could be implemented by organizations tomorrow if they so... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
cases themselves, exist or may be supplied for teaching business." Business-school faculty therefore needed to develop cases of their own. But Donham recognized that these cases would have to be different from legal cases. For businessmen, the primary tasks were... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
implement strategic marketing programs. To order HBS Press books, call 800-545-7685 or visit www.hbsp.harvard.edu. Other books by HBS authors are available at the Business School Coop (617-499-3248; 617-547-5003 fax). View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
packaged-goods companies indicating that VMI is more prevalent where retailers deliver detailed demand data via highly reliable transfer methods. In short, manufacturers should think twice about implementing VMI if retailers are supplying... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
specifics are determined lower down in the organization. Even if you get the plan right, implementing it is a whole other project. Some of Clark's research in the book deals with the extent to which the operating organization also has to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
Ernst & Young. Love was preparing an important bid for a large industrial manufacturer that needed help installing an enterprise resource planning system. He had already directed projects for implementing information systems for... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
in a world where patents can be practically replicated through careful innovation. On a third front, however, Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak argue in What's the Big Idea? that the successful implementation of management concepts can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
Market Knowledge brings together groundbreaking work by a variety of top-notch scholars on vital issues facing the transfer and implementation of market knowledge now and in the future. Under The Microscope To study the points where... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team did recommend its View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
ability to exist,” Ferguson says. Burnt Island Ventures is committed to finding and implementing solutions to everyday water concerns around the world. Some countries lack the means to provide clean water to their residents. That is not... View Details