Skills Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

reviews are actually the single most important input to our new product development process. We make sure that our new products start from the needs that customers express,” Yang said in an interview in 2016. “Traditional businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2019
Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

the latter being a new position established this year by the Student Association. In her capacity as CCO she helped develop important cross-section community-building initiatives including Community MyTakes and the Eat & Engage... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

for managers who do not have intimate knowledge of the content of their work. This emphasis on demonstration of capabilities is even more critical in the open source community. One earns the respect of peers by demonstrating skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Jun 2018
News

Alumni Achievement Awards

society. And for that, you have to educate people, to give them abilities, competencies, and skills so that they can be better citizens and be more effective in society, whether they go to the private sector, government, or an NGO. Having... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

entrepreneurs are just as innovative and change-oriented as their business counterparts. Among academic institutions, HBS staked an early interest in the area by creating the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993, dedicated to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

similar broad service lines, providers will develop strategies, structures, and processes to provide unique and differentiated services in a limited number of areas of strength. Innovative providers will redefine their business around... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

governments interested in improving conditions. “It suggests that development agencies looking to improve workplace conditions should be thinking not only about training workers at particular factories, but also [about how they] might... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

landscape look like for women? Myra Hart: Let's start with, "Who do women entrepreneurs know and who knows them?" In spite of the fact that women are very good at networking, the reality is that they don't know many people in the financial community. My... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2024
News

Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

proceeds go toward the club’s high-impact programs, including pro-bono consulting through Community Partners, workforce development through the Skills Gap Initiative, entrepreneurship through the regional... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

several years our conclusion is that these skills can be developed by anyone open and willing to practice and develop these critical skills. This chapter gives an overview of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

explore some of the many interesting developments going on in Eastern and Central Europe for my course Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy, so I contacted Vincent at the Europe Research Center to find out if they could... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details

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

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in a stable market to View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

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Research Resources | Baker Library

Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration constituted a pool of 1,200 subjects which Radcliffe Institute researchers drew from in their studies of women interested in developing careers and marketable View Details

01 Mar 2010
Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new product View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

firms." Instead, they argue, directors need their own framework to develop IT policies. First step: Determine your current approach, or mode (support, factory, turnaround, or strategic), to IT. (See sidebar.) In this excerpt, Nolan... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

challenges them to accept responsibility for their own education and gives them first-hand appreciation of the application of knowledge and skills to practice." Nevertheless, Kathryn Aiken points out that "... studying other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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