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- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
best for spec Luo collected her initial data from Done Deal Pro, a database that tracks transactions of movie ideas in Hollywood, including sales of both nascent ideas and fully formed scripts—the vast majority of which never actually... View Details
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
http://hbr.org/search/314034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-013 The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
information about patients is collected and tracked over time. These latter areas are where I see the questions of quality improvement, cost containment, and value creation ultimately being decided. That said, I see a government-run... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
be enterprise-wide. It had to be all-encompassing, because digital transformation is all-encompassing. We were stakeholder-driven, collecting input from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We took a design-thinking approach to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
well, to the point where you have to wonder whether Americans have simply become unleadable. Leadership used to mean giving people a sense of being something larger than themselves, and convincing them that, with a clear sense of what unites them, Americans are capable... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
undergraduate degree from MIT, she worked in Washington as an economist and as a consultant before pursuing her doctorate at HBS. Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections Did you feel extra pressure to succeed because you... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Improve Collective Intelligence, written by Ethan Bernstein, the Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Jesse Shore, assistant professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that it is high time our government started addressing the long-term issues America faces. It was also clear, however, that business can take collective action without waiting for government. It can invest to create more-competitive local... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
entire team that enabled a firm to move toward profitability." In addition, Higgins and Gulati found that top management teams whose members' collective connections were wide ranging and complementary were most effective at... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- Web
Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
isn’t wide enough. When we broaden scope and understand ourselves as actors collaborating in shared workspaces (virtual, hybrid, and on-site), we expand our potential to do work that understands and improves upon the past as we View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
into Japan's most famous, prestigious, and powerful collection of companies (or keiretsu), offering a wide array of products and services, but in the early nineties, Mitsubishi Corporation, the general trading company within that group,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a fascinating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of Individual Performance and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
pointing out that without initiatives to create a vast infrastructure, progress achieved by innovators and venture investors will be piecemeal. In his words, "What will NOT emerge without collective government action are the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
that can arise. Huckman provides guidelines for setting clear objectives, getting the boundaries between units right, establishing rules for sharing, and customizing performance criteria. And, he says, leaders must continually remind units of their individual and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
Science (New York: Portfolio, 2009). Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (New York: HarperCollins, 2005) James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and How... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
Latinx culture, and is the result of years of collective effort to bolster the number of Latinx applying to business schools and thereby in leadership roles worldwide. In 2015, a culmination of efforts headed by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and... View Details
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Managing Human Capital - Course Catalog
regularity, come back to a set of guiding criteria that connect how human capital is managed with the goal of organizational performance. We will also aim to collectively answer the question: how can I be ready for the way human capital... View Details