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Online Management Course | HBS Online

faculty and expert practitioners. I thought I knew the subject relatively well and it would be a refresher. I was in for a surprise. After the first module, I realized that I did many things wrong. The most chilling thought was about missed opportunities. The course is... View Details
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then innovate, staked out a tradition... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • May 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Debt Policy at UST Inc.

UST, Inc. is a very profitable smokeless tobacco firm with low debt compared to other firms in the tobacco industry. The setting for the case is UST's recent decision to substantially alter its debt policy by borrowing $1 billion to finance its stock repurchase... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

meetings, preparation, and committee work. Sitting on a board is not just a once-a-quarter obligation, so make sure to understand how the committee structure works, how many meetings take place between board meetings, etc. When... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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    Terry Culpepper

    Terry II Culpepper researches topics in empirical industrial organization, urban economics, and organizational economics. Prior to Harvard, he studied economics at the University of Chicago, then worked there as an economic researcher in industrial organization. View Details
    • Web

    Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    for-profits can deliver as much social value as charities. Despite the blurred distinction, all mission-driven start-ups will eventually face a stark choice about which legal structure to adopt, and they need to make it carefully, because... View Details
    • Web

    Cumnock Hall | About

    modern, three-story, brick structure was designed by Earl Flansburgh & Associates and originally housed five flexible classrooms, HBS Health Services, squash courts, and a lounge. In 1989, the courts were removed, and Cumnock was... View Details
    • 22 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

    quickly because bugs are discovered in the system earlier in the development process. Wipro also uses tools specific to the software development process based on lean principles. The DSM (design structure matrix), for example, defines... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
    • 22 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

    data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure from the input data. Either machine learning approach is only as... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 22 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 22

    close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Publisher's Link: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415873246/   Working PapersLocal Industrial View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Organizing the Family-Run Business

    subsystems influences the direction and operations of the family company, as well as of the family. It is essential, therefore, that each subsystem has a defined role and a clear voice in the governance of the overall system. These three subsystems and their governance... View Details

      Elon Kohlberg

      Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.

      Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; education industry; energy; pharmaceuticals; real estate
      • August 2012 (Revised October 2012)
      • Technical Note

      Congruence Model Note

      By: Shon R. Hiatt and James Weber
      This note describes the Congruence Model, a method by which an organization can assess whether its building blocks (critical tasks, formal organizational arrangements, people, and culture) are aligned (congruent) with its strategy. The model postulates that... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Processes; Alignment
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      • 17 Nov 2015
      • Blog Post

      What is HBS START Week?

      whom they will spend the rest of the year; it’s an exciting day! Initial cases are led by FIELD faculty and are designed to ease students into the structure of a case discussion.  Socially, the SA and the START Ambassadors lead a series... View Details
      • April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      IBM: Design Thinking

      By: Srikant M. Datar, Amram Migdal and Paul Hamilton
      This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every product team alongside technical engineers and developers and product managers. IBM’s design transformation is told... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Units; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Organizations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Adaptation; Adoption; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      • 09 Sep 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

      Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner
      • Research Summary

      "Pricing Practices and Market Power in International Cellular Telephone Markets" (with Dana Nunn)

      As the cellular telephone market continues to grow throughout the globe, countries must determine how to best promote market growth and innovation while protecting consumers and ensuring competitive rates. The conventional wisdom has been that introducing competition... View Details
      • Mar 2020
      • Conference Presentation

      A New Analysis of Differential Privacy's Generalization Guarantees

      By: Christopher Jung, Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Moshe Shenfeld
      We give a new proof of the "transfer theorem" underlying adaptive data analysis: that any mechanism for answering adaptively chosen statistical queries that is differentially private and sample-accurate is also accurate out-of-sample. Our new proof is elementary and... View Details
      Keywords: Machine Learning; Transfer Theorem; Mathematical Methods
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets

      By: Valeria Giacomin and G. Jones
      This working paper discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States,... View Details
      Keywords: Foundations; Philanthropy; Business Leaders; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Emerging Markets; Ethics; Values and Beliefs
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