Concepts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
News

New Releases

in the financial management field. Over the last fifteen years, they have developed and described key concepts, such as activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management, operational systems for learning and improvement, and target costing. Their new book... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

"It's interesting to see Ventilla applying entrepreneurial concepts often associated with technology startups to the field of education," Kim said in a recent interview. "He is employing rapid prototyping strategies with... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

Thanks to the Internet, customer management software, and the success of Dell, the concept of order management and customer focus has proven profitable for those companies that have embraced it. They understand and can anticipate their... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

social progress. Learn how evolving concepts of ownership - from real estate to AI, genetic data to media - are reshaping capitalism and creating new challenges and opportunities for business leaders. Previous Play Video duration: 1:07... View Details

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

Review 85, no. 6 (June 2007) Abstract This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Why do... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 May 2019
News

Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?

The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

22 Oct 2014
News

Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults

Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) founded Year Up to offer technical and professional skills training to arm economically disadvantaged young people with the professional skills they need to contribute to society. In this video he describes the original View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Training great principals to lead great schools

impact on more than 300,000 students in schools nationwide. The idea for New Leaders was developed by Fenton and a group of other Harvard students in 2000 as an approach to an impending shortage of school principals. Their concept was a... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. Professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton (DBA ’73), explains the roots and motivation for their original... View Details

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

01 Mar 2011
News

Noted & Quoted

concept of shared value tries to focus on the tremendous opportunity to create economic value through the creation of social benefit.” — University Professor Michael Porter, describing a new take on capitalism. (Harvard Business Review... View Details

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

Profile

Joseph Blair

on traditional energy, particularly on the intersection of energy and politics.” In his FIELD 2 project in Chennai, India, Joe and his teammates “worked on Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar retail concept for India. We ran focus groups,... View Details

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Special Collections & Archives | Baker Library

its reach into nearly every sector of the American economy, and the impact of the firm’s collapse. Explore the Lehman Bros. Exhibit From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 Explores the... View Details

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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation

through YPO, and now through a number of other initiatives, in getting people past this concept that they know everything about the other. We realized early on that probably the most dangerous four-letter word in the English language is... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The Giving Tree

that legacy, one branch of which is shown below. William H. Draper III (MBA 1954) Founding Cochair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation “The case method was a brand-new concept to me. I was on a very steep learning curve, but it was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2002
News

Replicating Toyota's Success

The idea of human cloning is controversial, but cloning a successful business concept remains as desirable as ever. For HBS assistant professor Steven J. Spear, this pursuit led him to Toyota, whose perennial leadership in quality... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2019
News

Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

The humble cocktail napkin is a tried-and-true medium for honing a concept to its essential elements. For Tina Hay (MBA 2002) it’s also a business. As founder and CEO of Napkin Finance, Hay oversees a multimedia effort to simplify... View Details