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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

The reactions and feedback from the 21,000+ school leaders globally who have taken the courses. Excerpts from the courses will be shared. Business Development in a World that Never Stops Changing Senior... View Details

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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Leemore S. Dafny Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Co-Chair Unit Head, General... View Details

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Value Creation Through Effective Boards

Client Services manager can help you at any stage of the admissions process. Contact a program advisor via email or call +34.93.253.4200 Fee, Payment, and Cancellations The program fee covers tuition, course... View Details

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

continues to examine the challenges and opportunities in harnessing the power of the markets to create both economic and social value. K–12 Education In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective View Details

November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
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Strategy Execution Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems

By: Robert Simons

This module reading provides tools and analyses for acquiring and allocating resources. The module begins by reviewing the importance of setting strategic boundaries as a basis for asset acquisitions. Next, a distinction is made between new assets acquired to meet... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Asset Allocation Systems; Payback; Discounted Cash Flow; Internal Rate Of Return; Strategic Investments; Analyzing Acquisitions; Strategy; Capital Budgeting

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

a nonprofit association that supports the European research, case writing, and course development activities of Harvard Business School faculty. It makes available to the public at large in France View Details

September 2016 (Revised January 2018)
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Strategy Execution Module 4: Organizing for Performance

By: Robert Simons

This module reading explores the implications of different business models on organization design. After discussing the distinction between units focused on work processes and those devoted to markets, the analysis provides insight as to when to organize businesses by... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Customer Focused Organization; Specialization; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Span Of Attention; Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure

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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Ai-Ling Jamila Malone April 2025 | Faculty Research In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserv... For MBA Students Sustainable Investing This second-year MBA... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

latest developments in leadership to HBS alumni and other executives all over the world. What Change Demands of Us, a new Executive Education course developed by the initiative, will be offered later this... View Details

Keywords: Management

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

sometimes want you just to tell them the answer—like 'just give me the answer to leadership!'" says Bernstein, who co-teaches the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course to first-year MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

15 Sep 2022
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6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

through a number of projects and sustainability campaigns held throughout the year. Past SSA projects have ranged from the beehives (see below!) to assessing how well sustainability concepts are integrated into the first year’s View Details

2022
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Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

By: Chris Bingham and Rory McDonald

Why is leading innovation in nascent business environments so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90% of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80% of executives consider innovation crucial to their growth strategy, but only 6%... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Decision Making

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14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

student-to-student interactions in face-to-face class sessions. The article outlines a technique used in an MBA marketing course for crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment of class participation during case discussions View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
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Novell: World's Largest Network Software Company

By: Richard L. Nolan

After phenomenal growth and market leadership in networking, founder and CEO Ray Noorda made a frontal assault on Microsoft's core strengths. In 1994, Noorda spend over $1.5 billion acquiring companies such as WordPerfect to combat Microsoft Word, products such as... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Competition; Internet and the Web; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology Industry

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24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

have more role models to learn from and stronger teams to collaborate with, a clear direction, and a mature board. The role you consider may have a narrow scope, but could offer deeper learning View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

March 2014
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Delivering High-quality Cancer Care: The Critical Role of Quality Measurement

By: Tracy Spinks, Patricia Ganz, George Sledge, Laura Levit, James Hayman, Timothy Eberlein and Thomas W. Feeley

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published Ensuring Quality Cancer Care, an influential report that described an ideal cancer care system and issued ten recommendations to address pervasive gaps in the understanding and delivery of quality cancer... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Quality; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North America

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September 2019 (Revised June 2020)
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2U: Higher Education Rewired

By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Karim R. Lakhani

In its 2019 Partner Symposium, 2U, an online program management provider (OPM), showcased its new vision: “Career. Curriculum. Continuum. A construct for lifelong learning in the 21st century.” 2U, founded in 2008 and went public in 2014, was looking to expand beyond... View Details

Keywords: Digital Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Make V. Buy; Learning; Higher Education; Internet and the Web; Innovation Strategy; Transformation; Digital Transformation

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Founder - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Founder Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum Throughout your Founder Path, get feedback on your idea, testing plan, business model, and more from experienced... View Details

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For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship

For MBA Students Courses Our courses provide the foundation for understanding the processes, finances and context of entrepreneurship. They bridge the gap from the theoretical... View Details

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Now Is the Time for Courage: Five Strategies to Drive Bold Action amid Uncertainty.

By: Ranjay Gulati

Research has shown that fortune favors the bold, not the cautious. But in volatile and uncertain times, many leaders hesitate to act, and others simply freeze up. The question is, Can bravery be acquired? In this article an HBS professor who has done extensive research... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Leadership; Risk Management; Personal Characteristics

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