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Leadership Fellows

participants Leadership Fellows positions are selected based on the program goals of access, impact, and leadership. All positions: Report to the CEO or another senior executive and have regular meaningful access to the CEO Focus on a discrete, strategic project or... View Details

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

This is the third and final article of the "Leading in the Digital Era" series. Read parts one and two. Leaders who set out to reshape their companies to compete in a fast-evolving digital world often come to a daunting realization: To... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Andrei Shleifer SEP 2021 The financial crisis of 2007–2008 has revived academic interest in price bubbles. The authors introduce diagnostic expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which... View Details

5 Sep 2013
Conference Presentation

The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

By: Ai Hisano

This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details

Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

incentives to use outcome measures. Overcoming those barriers involves implementing the standardized ICHOM measure set and developing the IT systems to collect and manage the data. Ideally, this should occur... View Details

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

recommended schedule tends to erode productivity, even among the most experienced workers. “We wanted to find out what happens when people deviate from the sequencing structure that their organization has set for them, and how do they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

15 Aug 2023
HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

The recent rollout of ChatGPT by OpenAI has set the world abuzz about the potential of artificial intelligence. But whatever happened to the last tech phenomenon, the “metaverse”? The once-heavily hyped future of immersive 3D technology... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

phenomenon in a 1978 scientific journal article, in which they described the specific and unfounded fear of being discovered as a fraud. Their research focused on professional women who were successful by every external standard in their... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

a leading non-profit strategy firm conducting research and advising corporations, NGOs, and foundations on improving social value creation; and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), which develops and publishes global View Details

06 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

The Truth About Authentic Leaders

expanding every year. As the Harvard Business Review declared in January 2015, “Authenticity has emerged as the gold standard for leadership.” In 2003, our book Authentic Leadership proposed a new kind of leader, whose character was the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

very confused, as is much of the discussion around our topic. Briefly, running an organization effectively involves: Leadership: Vision Energizing Management: Efficiency Results Administration: Rules Procedures Our focus today is on leadership: how an executive View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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Community Values | About

the heart of a School-wide aspiration: to make HBS a model of the highest standards essential to responsible leadership in the modern business world. Our values are a set of guiding principles for all that... View Details

21 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

obstacle threatening to set me back. Growing up in one of the tougher, under-resourced communities of Houston, Texas, I encountered innumerable challenges early on in my life. I felt prepared to navigate this reality. I wasn’t always this... View Details

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

That's the question that professor George Serafeim set out to answer with the working paper The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting. Coauthored with London Business School's Ioannis Ioannou (PhDBE '09), the paper... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their ability to serve the complex and interrelated needs of each patient over the full cycle of care. The greatest improvements in health care outcomes and efficiency will come from sustained, team-based focus on a carefully defined set... View Details

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Stages of Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

as a sequence of stages, each with a different set of economic characteristics and challenges. Factor-Driven Stage The first stage is the Factor-Driven Stage, in which competitive advantage is based exclusively on endowments of labor and... View Details

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when View Details