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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
this Action Plan will allow individuals to reflect on these critical areas and help them determine appropriate and impactful steps to help further their development. Purchase the exercise: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
designed to provide hands-on guidance and operational support for students who are seriously pursuing founding or joining life sciences ventures before, upon, or soon after, graduation. Students will learn and develop frameworks, tools, a network, and hands-on... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015
When James Correa was coming to the conclusion of his military service as a logistics officer (Captain) in the US Army, "There was only one desire for a professional career that I was sure of -- to continue a career in leadership." With no particular industry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
rectangle reflecting electron valences, but a tree structure depicting ancestral and functional affinities among the human genes... the resulting tools will clearly spawn myriad individual projects, with... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades ago, COOs outnumbered CFOs in Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies, but the proportions have flipped. Many CFOs are now charged with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
showers for each other: Ten percent of the females are pregnant, and one of my students is expecting her second child. Other students simply cannot function in a classroom environment. The concept of No Child Left Behind is great, but one... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808040 Dove: Evolution of a Brand Harvard Business School Case 508-047 Examines the evolution of Dove from functional brand to a brand with a point of view after Unilever... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
tariffs—equivalent to taxes—we are currently witnessing.) It reflects the fact that “global” market freedom for capital and goods may work, but market freedom for labor does not. As a result, labor suffers at the expense of the owners of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA
them if they feel there is need for clarification. To be useful, students' records must be accurate and complete. The officials who maintain student records are those in charge of the functions reflected in... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
entrepreneurial environments. (The last factor in turn will be a function of tax policy, legal protections, and societal preferences.) However painful the short-run adjustments, these more fundamental factors are likely to be critical in... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
the idea of oversight that surveillance in the name of transparency is a mere increment in a long-established trend? Is this in part a function of the reminders of the benefits of transparency and oversight in the wake of the collapse of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
functional support units. Business units to customers: The priorities of the customer value proposition are communicated to targeted customers and reflected in specific customer feedback and measures.... View Details
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Fola Folowosele
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business development. It was through this... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
RapidVisa to expand the types of cases it can handle.) The company’s online immigration applications function much as TurboTax does for IRS filings, translating the arcane language of government documents into easy-to-answer questions... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
complain that MBAs don't understand the practice of leadership or have sufficient awareness of their impact on others. Reflecting on these findings, Garvin concluded, "Business as usual isn't good enough." The Ford Foundation... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?
Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
designated time points to rotate off.” 3. Cross-functional Rotation: Similar to the Rotational Program, but limited to specific functional tracks. 4. Assistant to CEO: Participants work directly with division presidents/executives but,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a firm's innovation routines has been shown to be a major factor in predicting survival, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
Prominent among them were Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and MIT. Together, they have evolved to share common institutional traits, a sort of university DNA. Much as the identity of a living organism is reflected in its every... View Details