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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
a “blood to burritos” framing of logistics-for-all? Participants will leave with an understanding of what it takes to create a company on the technological cutting-edge in Africa, and how emerging markets might well be a source of leapfrogging innovations for the rest... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
that certain employees gain through contributing, says Nagle. His study suggests that contributing to crowdsourced digital or even physical “public goods” that benefit other firms or industries can enable companies to gain valuable insights and View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
here. Although planning is considered a core competency of corporations, nonprofits were often more effective in planning their social actions. This is a difference in degree rather than kind. Corporations... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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HBS - The year in Review
core activities of teaching, research, and disseminating ideas. Faculty and students alike embraced the custom technology that enabled teaching and learning both in the classroom and remotely. They were supported by hundreds of frontline... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
the organization’s core activities, sharpen the performance of its leadership team, and rebalance where necessary. This finding came to light when we studied Big C and Small C change in professional sports—specifically, how coaches who... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
the crisis to emerge stronger than others in our industry?” “How can the organization learn through this experience to win in a new world?” Saenz and O’Keeffe explain: “To guide the decisions and actions that will answer those questions—through the welter of View Details
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
an analysis. Core Principles Although case instructors exhibit a variety of styles and approaches in teaching quantitative materials, many incorporate the following principles: View quant segments as “workshops”—not polished performances... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Salter said Enron's legacy of corporate reforms in the U.S. since its fall is deep and wide and not necessarily reassuring. Steps to curb Enron-like corporate abuses, such as the shift from a principles-based corporate governance system to one that is rules-based, may... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities that allow students with financial need to take core HBS Online courses at a significantly reduced price and continue a mentorship program launched in summer 2020 for HBCU... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
institutions and our approaches to managing ourselves will have meaningfully evolved. And in fact, 20 months later we have seen and are seeing rapid acceleration of innovations of all kinds that—pre-pandemic—were moving slowly and non-disruptively in our View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
says, "which we view as a triangle" representing cutting working capital, reducing transaction costs, and providing world-class customer service. Balancing these competing priorities means that it's impossible to eliminate risk... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
corporate and strategic matters. Under Marram's leadership, the company has attained a prominent position in the worldwide premium juice business. Her skill in promoting growth without losing sight of her company's core View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Each step is crucial. Failure to take any one will put your company on the slippery slope to being a price taker. Step 1: Create customer value. There are two parts to the creation of customer value. You must provide a reason for the customer to do business with you.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the client, concluding that the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
exacerbated by an increasingly transient corporate lifestyle. Maybe it is a materialistic hollowness at the core of American life, or maybe it’s just men behaving badly. Whatever it is, and MacDonald suggests it is all of them, as a... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
achievement. In the 1960s, however, it began to self-destruct by diversifying, first in attempting to compete with IBM in the production of mainframes and then by becoming a conglomerate, purchasing, among others, Hertz Rent A Car,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
changing in this core aspect of business, what’ is not, and why knowing the difference matters. Participants will leave the session with practical guidelines concerning effective sales hiring, training, and performance management... View Details
- Career Coach
Sereena Tucker
Having worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity, Sereena can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how to create a list of target firms. She can help students create a game plan to network and recruit for... View Details