Professor Jim Heskett - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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

23 Jun 2003
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Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

the IT department or needed to coordinate their launches with help from sales representatives in the field. Jim Kilts encouraged the formation of operating committees in each business unit or regional group, and then further encouraged... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

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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

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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Business Administration Lauren H. Cohen L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration Scott Duke Kominers Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Jim Matheson... View Details

21 Nov 2005
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The Geography of Corporate Giving

profitability. But in a review of all of the studies that have been published on the topic over the past thirty years, HBS professor Joshua Margolis and Jim Walsh concluded that the connection between social... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Events - Business & Environment

advancing impactful climate and sustainability solutions around the world. This event will feature remarks by: Jim Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy and Vice Provost for Climate... View Details

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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

12 Oct 1999
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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

19 Feb 2012
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No Bitter Aftertaste From This Stock Offering

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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

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

25 May 2010
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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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Skydeck - Alumni

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 next career move is... 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

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

01 Oct 2007
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Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

beliefs that foam strikes incurred during the launch of the space shuttle Columbia posed no risk to its fuselage. This propensity to maintain silence, a flaw at once personal and organizational, is "widespread and problematic" in both the public and the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

the Internet, to what extent they can capitalize on these transformations remains an open question. HBS professor David Yoffie moderated the session on "The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the Future," with... View Details