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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

social benefit for comparable cost, or achieves an equivalent social benefit with fewer dollars. Foundations create value in four ways: selecting better grantees, signaling other funders, improving the performance of grantees, and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

take leaders by surprise. Drawing on his extensive experience building high-performance organizations, Bier has created 20 foundational rituals that make your organization as frictionless as possible, allowing you to scale faster and more... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend: Senior-level management from health care delivery organizations, such as general managers, senior... View Details
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her immediate attention. How does change happen in established... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

money to Senator Mark Hanna [R-OH] and the leaders of a Panamanian independence movement. Hanna, in turn, convinced President Roosevelt to support the independentistas. American warships prevented Colombia from responding to Panama's... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 07 May 2024
  • Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

carbon credit project portfolio along with HBS Sustainability highlights or email sustainability@hbs.edu. You can also learn more about carbon credits from a HBS professor and alum by checking out this article: “What leaders need to know... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

With global markets in turmoil over the last several weeks, leaders throughout the world are starting to think about how they should respond if confronted with an economic downturn. Yet what do we know about how View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

gained higher levels of education and workforce integration, leading analysts to blame ingrained bias and “occupational sorting” for the difference. Occupational sorting occurs when people select jobs based on their demographics. For... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Discovering New Uses for Existing Innovations” was selected for publication in the 2020 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. Rebecca A. Karp : Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “From... View Details
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

products but erroneously expect others to dislike dissimilar ones (Studies 1 and 2). While people readily select dissimilar items for themselves (particularly if the dissimilar item is of higher quality than a similar one), they fail to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

By: Willy Shih
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

self-development. In the course of my work, I have had the privilege of developing teaching materials about many experienced leaders and their career development. This chapter builds on stories from some of the talented managers I've... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • September 2024
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Xendit: Hiring for Growth

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Claire Wu
In 2019, Xendit, a growth-stage Southeast Asia (SEA) fintech venture based in Jakarta, was looking to hire a Head of Sales and Head of Product to lead its next phase of growth. Founded by Moses Lo and Tessa Wijaya, Xendit provided payment infrastructure, modeling... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Jobs and Positions; Sales; Product; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Philippines
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  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

$50 billion to the company, with no assurances American taxpayers will recoup any of that investment. How should business leaders learn from this latest turning point? HBS faculty weigh in. Daniel Snow, Assistant Professor Of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan based primarily on objective performance, but incorporating managerial discretion in the selection of winners.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Concepts Idea Selection and Evaluation Defining and Refining Your Prototype Plan Prototyping: From Exploration to Validation Leading Concept Development Featured Exercises Concept Poster: Organize all information about an innovation... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2020
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Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

networking reception sponsored by Mass Challenge. Then they all participate in Friday’s Master Series, which gives them an opportunity to get expert advice and support and refine their pitches, which they present on Friday evening. The judges View Details