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or how the policy applies to a particular situation should discuss the matter with the Dean or a Dean’s designate. This policy is reviewed every 3–5 years. This policy was reviewed and approved by the... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

have enjoyed reading his reviews of works by Thomas Cochran, Mira Wilkins, Hugh G.J. Aitken, Samuel Haber, Ray Ginger, and many others. Al preferred books with a clear core argument and had little patience with authors who failed to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2013
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

different people, and a self-image that is quite different from the same group sprinkled throughout the field organization. Formal management processes such as planning and budgeting approaches, compensation schemes, training programs, coordinating committees and task... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked

completed part-time while you are also working. Self-paced learning can take place either 1) before the program begins, to review case materials and prepare for the program, which is recommended for every program, 2) as a separate module,... View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Business School. Tedlow spent several years researching and interviewing Grove, to the point of inhabiting a small cubicle in Intel's Santa Clara, California headquarters. Although Grove participated with Tedlow, he did not review the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

and female founders—a time of day more compatible with family schedules than the typical evening and weekend offerings. It has also organized a volunteer group of investors, mentors, and advisors for weekly “office hours” to review pitch... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

our current strategy." Companies think strategic change is this huge process they have to go through. But if you regularly review what you are doing, then that keeps the tasks from getting bigger and bigger to the point where it gets... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files into binary data files and work primarily with those. You can... View Details

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

and payday is courtesy of Assistant Professor Doug J. Chung, who reviewed 117 schools with Division I football and basketball teams, matching athletic performance with revenue flow covering an 11-year period. The findings were... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

talk of a couple of the new incubators going public themselves. Four leaders in the evolving incubator space — Timothy Rowe of Cambridge Incubator, Toby Corey of Intend Change, Flip Filipowski of Divine Interventures and Jeff Crown of Lycos Labs — came together to... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

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By: Richard S. Tedlow

Don't Deny the Facts

Investor's Business Daily, April 27, 2010

The ability to see facts objectively is paramount to business success. An interview with Richard S.... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

of books that make up its online inventory on hand—but the curation is not specific to the location. Nationwide ordering trends and reviews inform what is available on the shelves in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. In late... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 May 2020
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Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

break that I can feel free to come in and out of the class, that she had a young one and empathized. She stayed behind to review some notes and send me the rest via email. HBS as a community demonstrated their support of my motherhood and... View Details

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Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

wait for care. Patagonia lists the suppliers for each item on its website, while Southwest Airlines’ “transfarency” campaign pledges to save customers from hidden fees. After all, customers are already turning to Google searches and Amazon product View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

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New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller, Washington Post bestseller, Chicago Tribune bestseller, Publishers Weekly bestseller, USA Today bestseller, Amazon "Best Books of December" pick and... View Details

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