Executive Ability - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

may have not ” Joined in class by the Chief Information Office (CIO) of the United States, Vivek Kundra, who oversees Data.gov, Lakhani led the case discussion for 50 technology executives in a weeklong HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

01 Sep 2023
News

Action Plan: In Context

Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) knows that many people think of etiquette as outdated, nothing more than “stuffy, stuffy old manners.” She has made a career—and now a Netflix series, Mind Your Manners—out of updating this old-fashioned perspective. “I see etiquette as the... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

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HBS - The year in Review

of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an intensive, immersive experience that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum the ability to integrate their learning in the RC through... View Details

2014
Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano

Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts

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Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

disruptive automation, the nature of middle skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum. Surveys of educators and employers reveal the disconnect behind this partnership’s underperformance and... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Info As businesses grow, founders lose their ability to set direction through informal interactions. They increasingly rely on formal structures and systems to implement their strategies and hold employees accountable. Yet many View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

Index) was born. The project, developed by Diamond and two cofounders, began in 1995 as a crowd-sourced effort to index the approximately 2 million Polish Jewish microfilm records in the Mormon church’s collection. In 1997, as executive... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

gender, work, and family limit both men’s and women’s ability to thrive personally and professionally. Her work is published in academic journals, such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of... View Details

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

of their projects, their performance reflects their development in the knowledge tier. Questions that then explore their executing abilities through the lens of mindset and skills invites them to recognize... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

was among the first family foundations to embrace ESG investing—despite the limited availability of robust metrics. McKnight recognized that sustainable investing did not equate to sacrificing returns; in fact, the foundation had already demonstrated its View Details

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

aspects of risk including political risk, foreign exchange risk, market risk, and execution risk. Further, the discussion covers social aspects including whether the slum should be redeveloped at all, whether it should be redeveloped by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

false illusion of a post-racial society, where many people thought we had transcended issues of race,” he says. “But that was not the case at all.” It certainly wasn’t the experience for many of the black business executives included in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its collective value; development and execution of innovation strategies; innovative attributes of... View Details

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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

HBS Alumni Resume Book who have relevant board experience Identify and contact executive search firms (see list below) Increase Your Visibility Sell yourself as an expert - get published, get quoted, give speeches, serve on panels, etc.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

2019 | VOA: Press Conference USA An Economy of Talent: Harvard’s Bill Kerr On ‘Talent Immigrants’ Jeff Cunningham 29 Jan 2019 | Chief Executive Thinkers50: William Kerr 21 Jan 2019 | Thinkers50 The Stealth Productivity Drain on American... View Details

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

experts including executives, policy makers, and academics. In association with the conference, the Forum launched an HBS and HMS Survey of Executive Sentiment in Health Care. “There's a lot of activity that goes on in health care that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

seemed like the quickest way to have an impact, if I wanted to give back to a society that somehow valued this specific ability I had.” Seoul as seen from Namsan Mountain. In 1970, Korea’s GDP per capita was just under $280. By 2021, it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

food to be resold at a significant discount. Rauch faced significant challenges in the implementation and execution of his plan, notably legal hurdles related to selling products past their expiration date, marketing challenges, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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