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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
trusting atmosphere with decentralized decision-making." In the initial study, Deshpandé and his colleagues found significant differences in the way companies operated from one nation to another. "But a more important discovery was that... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley
computing, cloud computing, and robotics redefining the future. Organized by the Tech Club and launched in 1996, WesTrek has connected generations of students with alumni and industry leaders across the Bay Area. WesTrek 2025 raised the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and... View Details
- Web
Drone Policy | About
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)? Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, are aircraft without a human pilot aboard. They can be controlled autonomously via a programmed flight path or by a pilot on the ground. The... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
with companies in person to find that right fit. Most often, these students are looking for opportunities at organizations that simply hire as needed and real time; which often may be post-graduation. These students have the mindset... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
exploration may include emerging opportunities in pharma & biotech, medical device & diagnostics advances, and related topics such as digital therapeutics, platform technologies, use of real-world evidence, data and computing, AI and GenAI, View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
the MGM-Mirage are quite generalizable to other industries," Martinez-Jerez says. "There are many decentralized employees with the rights to act on behalf of customers, and that's quite common in other View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
criteria. They are building all-electric, zero-emissions autonomous cars with the mission of making our cities safer and more sustainable with every ride. The Internship Experience I’m on the Go-To-Market team, which is responsible... View Details
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
4-5, focused on a particular research work stream. Potential work streams include energy generation (renewables, cleaner fossil fuels, decentralized solutions, and biomass), mobility, clean-tech, agriculture, urban resilience and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
of convention, and eventually wins out. The man-of-action hero combines the autonomous willpower of the rebel with the willingness to contribute to societal institutions that marks the breadwinner.— Douglas B. Holt Two other models of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News If capitalism is to blame for climate change, can it also be the best hope to stop it? That’s the paradox that HBS alumni in Southern California confronted in a sold-out, faculty-led roundtable discussion on business and climate change held in Los... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
seeking to pioneer radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past, these cases show, to renew itself for the future. [...] A New Lens On Growth One company that has used an ambidextrous View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
these innovations exist. (The remaining imperatives: Make value the central objective; promote novel approaches to process improvement; make consumerism really work; and decentralize approaches to problem solving.) "Health care, in terms... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
information. The role of this case is not to assess how well the intelligence community is doing. Rather, its purpose is to provide an extreme example of the challenge of differentiating and integrating an organization — that is, breaking... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Sloan. Although he was becoming feeble, his mind was still sharp. Mr. Sloan would talk about innovations he introduced as head of General Motors. They included a multibrand strategy with products aimed at different market segments, the introduction of new models... View Details