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26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

director and senior partner in the Athens office of BCG. In 2018 the consultancy published a report highlighting the role that a startup ecosystem could play in boosting the economy. Now when Antoniades confers with ministers, he’s met... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

a few years ago, thanks to a marquee investment: In July 2017, Softbank’s Vision Fund led a $200 million funding round into Plenty, a San Francisco–based vertical farming startup. “That really moved the needle,” she says. Don Goodwin, the founder and president of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

to brainstorm solutions to problems that still plague the community. One of the Cleveland visitors this January was Richard Shatten (MBA '80), a faculty member at Cleveland's Weatherhead School of Management. Just after graduating from HBS, Shatten became part of the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

working for a U.S. government- funded venture-capital firm in Slovakia, Kubicova gained the necessary baseline work experience at home before joining McKinsey & Company in Prague and Cleveland. Kubicova now works in London as an associate with McKinsey in a general... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to crowdsource competence by making data public and offering a reward for the best algorithm. A simple model suggests that open tournaments... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

ultimately interviewing hundreds of parents in the corporate sector, as well as in medicine, the military, nonprofits, education, performing arts, academia, and in frontline service jobs. In 2016, Dowling used her findings to launch Workparent, a coaching and View Details

2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

drafted inside the executive branch, and they reflected the executive branch's wishes at the time. They weren't incredibly consultive with Democrats. Having said that, the overall approach was much more collaborative than what we see... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who they learn... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

hospitals in smaller cities across India, with a goal to operate 30,000 beds in seven years, which will make it comparable with the world's largest hospital chains. NH operates the world's largest tele-cardiology network, which provides View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, processes, etc.) and the challenges that the Dabbawala organization faces in a rapidly changing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

If I have an issue, question, or problem, I can pick up the phone and call Sherri at any moment. We've consulted on several topics, which has been extremely helpful. It’s important that we share our plans and I welcome her opinion and... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything, authors Conn and McLean—both veterans of McKinsey & Co.—offer a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem solving, developed in top consulting firms, that will... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

students to focus on what interests them. As part of their projects, they can evaluate new business ideas, prepare business plans, or consult with existing entrepreneurial businesses. One team of students, for example, worked with a... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

which acted essentially as an in-house management consultancy and auditing firm. He personally composed the statutes as to its authority. This was one of the first offices in the world that began a task of standardizing accounting methods... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

than half of new college graduates are underemployed. We’re not measuring whether someone got a job in their field, we’re measuring whether they got any kind of college level occupation. So, for example, an engineer who goes to work as an investment banker or a... View Details

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative pricing structure. Rather than charging direct fees for these consulting services, it proposed to the client that it contract with the firm for five... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and consultant Carice Anderson shares her... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Green Light

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First Look at New Research: February 21

January 26, 2016

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

First Look: September 20

First Look: March 9

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

First Look: Jan. 29

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts