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Podcast - Business & Environment

Voluntary Carbon Market 29 JAN 2025 | Climate Rising Our second episode on the voluntary carbon market is a bonus episode of a panel discussion recorded at Harvard Climate Action Week in 2024. Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joe Aldy... View Details

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Instructor Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

met. Transcript Feedback from Students Tom DeLong Professor DeLong talks about gains to be made by allowing students to give feedback earlier in the semester. Transcript Peer Support and Review Jim View Details

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

Manufacturing commons are "webs of technological knowhow, operational capabilities, and specialized skills" that underlie many industries, universities, and the government. Also, see Professor Jim Heskett's... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

19 Feb 2012
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No Bitter Aftertaste From This Stock Offering

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

ensure accountability, cultivate collaboration, and encourage initiative. Individual and system accountability. Jim Kilts said it best: "A promise made is a promise kept." As we have seen, confidence is enhanced when people are... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

17 Aug 2020
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What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

States as one of the 15 “safe countries” whose citizens may enter freely. Meanwhile, many leaders are reporting that their teams—or they themselves—have crashed into a wall of demotivation and despair. The Stockdale Paradox, made famous in View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

Supplement 210-067 "CityCenter (D)" follows the (A), (B), and (C) cases with subsequent chronological events through CityCenter's grand opening in December 2009 and financial results through March 2010. The case includes a simple valuation exercise intended... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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About - Business & Environment

materials about business & environment More on Curriculum Leadership Michael Toffel Faculty Chair; Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Professor Michael Toffel has been interested in how... View Details

15 Sep 2011
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High Ambition Leadership

creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In addition to being the Cahners-Robb View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Business Administration Sara McKinley Torti Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Anke Becker Assistant Professor of Business Administration Lauren H. Cohen L.E. Simmons Professor of Business... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

incorporate flexibility of strategy implementation, promote critical thinking and innovation, and emphasize a common purpose throughout a growing organization. Learning From Harvard’s Great Negotiators Professor View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles, "Clusters and Competition: New Agendas for Companies, Governments, and Institutions" and "Competing Across Locations: Enhancing Competitive Advantage through a Global Strategy." Jim Aisner of HBS spoke with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

is diffusing rapidly in the literature and among practitioners. Additionally, together with Dr. Jim Kim and Dr. Paul Farmer, Michael Porter has developed a body of thinking and case studies on health care delivery in resource poor... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

in climate-related sectors. The event will be hosted virtually on Meetaway, a platform that puts participants in a series of 7 minute 1:1 conversations with other alumni. Download to Calendar Keywords: Alumni Program; Mar 03 Careers in Climate & Sustainability: Small... View Details

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

not just in (what is now) the Czech Republic, but also in any country that lacks strong institutions and investor protections. As HBS professor Mihir A. Desai and the Monitor Group's Alberto Moel explain in the Review of Finance, in their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

with the team at SFARI. In 2022, Harvard Medical School immunology professor Jun Huh, a researcher at that school’s Blavatnik Institute supported by both SFARI and N of One, was looking to further his studies of autism’s fever effect.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Skydeck - Alumni

his work can teach every organization How to Judge Your Next Job Michael Horn (MBA 2006) and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein —coauthors of the new book Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career —on how to make sure your... View Details

Fall 2020
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Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details

Keywords: Art; Negotiation; Arts

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