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- 09 Jan 2023
- News
Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund
"SurgoCap will use data science to invest around the theme of how technology can enhance other sectors such as financials, industrials, health care and enterprise data, according to people familiar with the matter," the article notes.... View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
& Easy assortment carried around 50 percent private- label products, rather than more familiar national brands. And finally, fresh produce was prepacked rather than loose on the shelves. While this can actually improve freshness,... View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From The Bottom Up While most organizations struggle with implementing a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses like boilers and HVAC systems; he was all too View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
because they’ve memorized positions on the board in “chunks” of four- to five-piece configurations. But the chess master’s memory advantage disappears when pieces are randomly placed on the board, rather than in established patterns. When it comes to robotics designs,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
about how to secure your shoe. The thing in organizations is to remember to leave enough time and space so that people have time to express their curiosity and to think about other approaches than, for example, tying something with a double bow. I think you’re probably... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
retirement, Amabile and colleagues found that, for many, the transition begins smoothly enough but then develops into retirees questioning their own identity and puzzling over how to structure their days as their familiar work life fades... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
While conceding that songwriters and poets can make a strong case for "I love you," economists know that the three little words that really make the world go around are "supply and demand." This familiar marketplace mantra - its symmetry... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
mention the executives in my class. "Here’s some good news: We can engage with that anxiety productively." Many of us are familiar with this kind of anxiety. I’ve interviewed and studied many leaders whose confidence has faltered before a... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
deserves single-minded attention." That attitude extends from the boardroom of Yum! Brands to the menus in KFC restaurants. A small number of items would be familiar to Western visitors—mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, fried bone-in... View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
pushes us in the wrong direction toward something that is fundamentally familiar and comfortable." Frei: I grew up in a house where judgment was a delicacy, so I instinctively go straight to judgment. It’s the trait I like least in... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
1980s was that it lacked familiarity and networks within that country. Finally, and most important, Unilever had distinctive strengths in management. Unilever invested heavily in its management. It recruited some of the best available... View Details
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
bot your question in the same way you would phrase it to a human TA. If you have a question pertaining to where or how to submit certain assignments, or one relating to deadlines or time estimates, you can also express those in a similar fashion. Please note that no... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
University, where senior and retired executives learn to develop leadership skills in the service of solving large social problems. Many of the examples in the book come from her experience leading that program. Sean Silverthorne: We’re all View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
familiar arguments both for and against. Private developers and other supporters argue that new restaurants and retail shops, high-rise housing, and other spruce-ups revitalize communities by attracting outside investment and luring new... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Portrait Project
Wabantu Hlophe
Growing up in Eswatini, I was familiar with helplessness. The pleas of my mother as she endured my father's abuse were a haunting soundtrack to a childhood. In a country where life expectancy was 42 when I was 11, the sense of dread was... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
commonly encounter in history textbooks—faced and the circumstances, public and private, that influenced their decisions. This is not how the 51-year-old professor was taught American history when he was growing up in upstate New York. But the approach is immediately... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni
to build your skills. It’s also critical to assess the market. Get to know your industry or sector of interest broadly and deeply, familiarize yourself with the competitive landscape, and develop a point of view outside of your company.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
Teaching a case study on the National Geographic Society for the first time, HBS professor David A. Garvin walks out to the middle of the horseshoe-shaped classroom and asks his students, "How many of you have familiarity with... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth,” and “an expropriation of human rights.” The book is both a cri de coeur and a call to arms in the context of a rich, well-documented history of the development of capitalism. We know who you are Surveillance capitalists... View Details