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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog

ENG-SCI 292A The MS/MBA Capstone is an intensive project that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across core disciplines developed in the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected... View Details

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within firms. We develop a model in which firms choose which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) - Course Catalog

purpose is to integrate the perspectives and analytic tools provided by the HKS core curricula in the MPP or MPA/ID programs with the perspectives and analytic tools provided by the required HBS curriculum in the MBA program. The course... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

up standards, principles, and institutions of governance. The second comprises strengthening the integrity of leaders in business.” He cited the School’s well-established curriculum and initiatives involving leadership and values, as well... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

What are some of the new "star" technologies and how can the average business integrate them in order to conduct low-cost, rapid testing? We need to appreciate that new knowledge comes as much from failure as it does from... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report

in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical maker Novo Nordisk. At UTC, a... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

within both the business and the nonprofit. Q: Integrative collaboration would seem a lofty goal for most companies, as this level of collaboration requires a true meshing of business goals with those of the partnering nonprofit. How do... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

William L. Mellon

Under Mellon’s management, the firm became a pioneer on several fronts. He opened the nation’s first service stations in 1913 became and expanded into international oil exploration. By the mid-1920s, Gulf’s refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, was the largest in the world.... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Books

achieve sustained high commitment and high performance. Basing his approach on leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to build a complete system that will spell business success no matter how challenging the economic climate. One Report: View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

everything from structure, management, and strategy to a firm’s customer and partner relationships. Faculty Books The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality by Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus... View Details

05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

conservation for climate risk reduction. Although more comprehensive research programs to answer these questions are needed, some insights are emerging. Integrating two or more behavior change approaches that target multiple,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2015
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Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

complex, it is clear that a new model based on collaboration and deeper integration is essential to the University’s ability to sustain its impact in the 21st century. Harvard President Drew Faust has institutionalized a new era of... View Details

May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
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Komatsu and Dresser: Putting Two Plus Two Together

By: Ashish Nanda

In 1987, Komatsu Ltd., looking to expand its presence in the U.S. earth-moving equipment (EME) industry, enters into a 50-50 joint venture with Dresser. The management of the Komatsu Dresser joint venture faces difficulty in bringing the two halves together. The rift... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Machinery and Machining; Restructuring; Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Construction Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States

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January 2010 (Revised March 2011)
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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Carolyn Daly and Andrew Peter Dervan

In 2009 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) had been recognized as the best children's hospital in the country for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Networks; Integration; Health Industry; Philadelphia

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01 Dec 2012
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Competitive Advantages

of Amgen. Below, in Chicago, David Bozeman, VP of integrated manufacturing operations at Caterpillar, makes a point with moderator Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller. View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

feel overwhelming. How will we integrate interns into the team? What project would drive the most value for our company and help the intern learn? Where do we start with this process? If these questions sound familiar to you and your... View Details

Walter H. Wheeler, Jr.

diversification program that produced the first mass-market postage meter and a complete line of integrated mail processing equipment. Many of Pitney-Bowes’ machines set the standard for the United States Postal Service. View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

16 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

they were calling for a single integrated solution. If organizations are to survive long-term, managers must learn how to create organizational architectures that can be, at once, centralized and decentralized, small and large, local and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Commencement 2019 Address | About

It is easy these days to find headlines, news stories, documentaries, and films that feature lapses in the integrity of business leaders. We have fewer role models of integrity—of people who were willing to make the hard call when View Details

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

Cases & Course MaterialsBunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets Harvard Business School Case 708-443 In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of 3 very... View Details