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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
crushed by the Chinese army, Chai had to flee her homeland to escape the authorities who relentlessly sought her arrest and imprisonment. For the next ten months, often alone, frequently in disguise, Chai, aided View Details
- August 2013
- Technical Note
Raising the Level of Abstraction
By: Willy Shih
This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a higher level. This lowers entry barriers to using (and reusing) a...
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Abstraction;
Modularity;
Commercialization;
Information Technology;
Information Infrastructure;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
United States;
Asia;
Europe
Shih, Willy. "Raising the Level of Abstraction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 614-019, August 2013.
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight View Details
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 2017
- Other Unpublished Work
Better, Simpler Strategy
By: Frances X. Frei and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Strategy, at its core, describes how a company attains superior performance. In industry after industry, there is a wide range in company performance resulting from the various strategies adopted by individual firms. Underneath all of this variation, however, are...
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Frei, Frances X., and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Better, Simpler Strategy." Baker Library, Boston, September 2017.
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
view," but to ask how, if at all, organizations can or should be defended against the response from Anonymous? Its actions, triggered by the attacks on Wikileaks, hinted at a future of everything from Internet mischief (a la...
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by James L. Heskett
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
MBA and then moved to the firm’s Seattle office in 2006, after relocating with her now-husband, Cory Toedebusch (MBA 2006). From there, she became the chief of staff to the CEO of T-Mobile in 2011 and senior vice president of emerging business View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
mention those who engage in other competitive endeavors) are fixated on exploiting rules to their advantage, instead of thinking about how best to build a sound business while complying with the principles that underlie the legal rules....
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by Malcolm S. Salter
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
you bring them. The best coaches guide individuals toward finding their own solutions using tools and frameworks they’ve developed themselves or learned from professional training. “A central tenet of coaching is a faith in your client’s...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
only current performance, influenced by managerial quality, matters. This finding implies that a team that keeps on winning does so because the manager influences the team’s ability to keep winning. In short, a manager can teach a team to...
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- Blog
The Chao Center: The Heart of HBS Executive Education
the classroom, organize small-group meetings, or simply take a break. By design, the building's architecture relates both to the traditional structures of the main HBS campus and also to the twenty-first century spirit of nearby Tata...
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- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Strategic Value Of Values: A New Guidance System By Rosabeth Moss Kanter Any company can say it has values, but what Banco Real did was to embed them in business practice and make them credible to the skeptics inside and outside of their...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
trend of overspending prior to the dot-com fallout, saying that venture capital firms must make more independent decisions these days. "You're making bets that are not obvious, that are not apparent to everyone in the industry. It takes more courage, and View Details
- November 2023
- Case
Team Liquid: Fueling the Business of Fandom
By: Youngme Moon and Kerry Herman
In 2023, the co-CEOs of Team Liquid, one of the world's most prominent Esports organizations, are deciding whether and how to evolve their business model to include (1) a greater focus on enterprise revenue; and (2) more direct-to-consumer activity. Team Liquid has one...
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Business Model;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Revenue;
Organizational Culture;
Business and Community Relations;
Video Game Industry
Moon, Youngme, and Kerry Herman. "Team Liquid: Fueling the Business of Fandom." Harvard Business School Case 324-041, November 2023.
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
poorly educated and lack access to sources of information like the Internet. Although these sources are depicted as high tech, much of what patients learn actually comes from the phone and face-to-face interactions. These plans appear to...
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
created, developed, and refined at HBS during the past century. The second was to illustrate the variety of ways in which those ideas have influenced students, the business world, and the academy. And the third was to encourage future innovation View Details
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The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
necessary to prepare that individual to succeed and work their way up in the organization over time. “By bringing, in effect, demand at scale, I think we’re also going to be able to create a situation where we get supply at scale View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News