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- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
profitability and poverty eradication targets. [The late] C.K. Prahalad has noted that some of the most breakthrough business strategies, models, processes, and ways of organizing have come from teams building profitable businesses... View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
and execute on their own independent projects. First, they need to autonomy to work creatively in areas of their own interest, for instance by intentionally allocating them free time on their own or in teams... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
from HBS in 1992, and wrote the case study with HBS researchers Olivia Hull and Amy Klopfenstein. With a combination of savvy planning and creative thinking, US Foods managed to weather staff shortages while simultaneously growing its... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
emerging. Various units operated as independent fiefdoms. In 1998, Fahey was named CEO, and the task was clear: build an organization to thrive for the next 100 years. To do so, he "assembled a management team of diverse backgrounds... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that... View Details
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
entrepreneurship immediately, or acquire more business experience first? When you feel ready to be a founder, you'll need: An idea for a problem to be solved And/or a team of partners who have a marketable idea, or have skills/experiences... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
“Now, brands are working with a lot of influencers, and it’s difficult for them to centralize content. Second, they probably don’t want to centralize content because they actually want to leverage the authenticity and the creativity of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
to classmates who had experience creating products or processes from ground zero and was inspired by cases about entrepreneurs whose creative concepts have benefited the world. “HBS pushes you to be ambitious but also clear headed,” she... View Details
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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Library Search Search Search Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 Resources Site Credits Site Credits EXHIBITION TEAM Laura Linard Melissa Banta Melissa Murphy Michelle Jarvis Liat Spiro Jennifer Skarbek Christine Riggle Tim Mahoney CONSERVATION... View Details
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
organizations over deep thinking. As Lorre Zuppan said, "I think Jeff Immelt's efforts to protect deep thinking reflect a nice sentiment but If his team could carry the ball, would he need to announce that he's protecting it?"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Sometimes, thinking outside the box isn’t ambitious enough to get real innovation flowing. In her new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encourages organization leaders to think much more broadly at what restricts creativity and how to overcome... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
important, as I was not yet in a major leadership position. I now have to manage a team of creatives and business professionals, and often their motivations and goals are misaligned. How to balance out their... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
in the local energy sector. With Techint’s tradition of deep community engagement and rigorous standards, the question for Bienek and her team was how to allocate the newly earmarked $30 million to generate the greatest long-term impact... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
have a team that's working to build this culture of excellence. But at the same time, they need to be okay with building something that might fail. So culturally, mechanically, how do you build that? AM: We talk a lot about a "good... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
everything from working out at the gym to turning off the lights at home. Yet, despite the brainpower devoted to devising creative rewards and fine-tuning offerings, employees don’t always buy in. “All this money and time and smart people... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 22 Mar 2024 Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag Alumni Student & Alumni Stories Nneka Chime’s (MBA 2015) career path offers an alternative road map... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
that you can’t reopen—then that’s a positive move forward for the organization, not a negative one. We often punish frontline teams when things don’t go right, and that’s the wrong instinct. JF: You mentioned in the book SpaceX’s... View Details