Learning From Failure - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with executives... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

a Harvard Business Review article , there has been worldwide interest in in the topic from all sectors of the health care industry. The concept of value for patients resonates with patients, providers, provider organizations, payers,... View Details

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

had died while she was interned. And as it happens I can see the masts of Hanslope Park from where I sit here in calm rural Buckinghamshire on our election day. It's great that Ms. Elkins is teaching at HBS, to be reminded that the School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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OPM Renew

Summary Whether you attended the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School last year or many years ago, the excitement of learning and growing at HBS—and collaborating and networking with other entrepreneurial... View Details

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Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center | About

she embodied the spirit of the love of learning in this university community.” Also at the time of the gift, the Honorable Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979), US Secretary of Labor from 2001 to 2009, subsequently US... View Details

April 12, 2023
Article

Using AI to Adjust Your Marketing and Sales in a Volatile World

By: Das Narayandas and Arijit Sengupta

Why are some firms better and faster than others at adapting their use of customer data to respond to changing or uncertain marketing conditions? A common thread across faster-acting firms is the use of AI models to predict outcomes at various stages of the customer... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; AI and Machine Learning; Consumer Behavior; Technology Adoption; Competitive Advantage

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12 Mar 2024

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Ellen DaSilva (MBA 2017), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details

December 2014
Article

The Discipline of Business Experimentation

By: Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi

The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As a... View Details

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Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

nestled 1,100 miles from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s capital. This ticket carried me across the globe to Norway, and then to the United States, for higher education. Post college, I navigated my way through the world of finance before setting... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In contrast, one recent analysis found that 72 percent of S&P 500... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

2007
Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career

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Volunteer - Alumni

Volunteer Alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes. Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring... View Details

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

wheel," in which purpose is the hub and the supporting factors are the spokes. Drawing from an HBS case study, she shows how Gucci essentially used such an approach to support a purpose--"fashion-forward, high quality, good value"--that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Research Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services 1ms Harvard Business School (HBS) provides unparalleled faculty support to facilitate the creation of enduring knowledge that shapes both business practice and pedagogy. HBS is distinct in that it funds almost all its own faculty and doctoral... View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

standardization, and the official dissolution of the boundaries between the U.S. organization and the international one. 10 years later, Coke's strategy under CEO Neville Isdell looks very different. Coke is now focused on learning View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Adi Sunderam; Financial Services

September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details

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Evaluating and Managing Tramp Shipping Lines Performances: A New Methodology Combining Balanced Scorecard and Network DEA

By: Ying-Chen Hsu, Cheng-Chi Chung, Hsuan-Shih Lee and H. David Sherman

The shipping industry is essential for the economic development of nations like Taiwan as a means delivering and receiving cargo. Shipping has been depressed since 2008 as a result of the financial crisis increasing pressure for the shipping lines to operate more... View Details

Keywords: Network Data Envelopment Analysis; Shipping Line; Centralized Approach; Cross-efficiency; Balanced Scorecard; Performance Evaluation

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April 2010
Case

A Giant Among Women

By: Willy C. Shih, Ethan S Bernstein, Maly Hout Bernstein, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Yi-Ling Wei

Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., now the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Global Strategy; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Product Development; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan

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