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  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to encourage rebellion against itself."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

industries), and that there is a tight relationship between the direct impact of a shock and the magnitudes of the downstream and the upstream indirect effects. We then investigate the short-run propagation of four different types of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2022
  • Article

Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo

By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections... View Details
Keywords: Social Skills; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Togo
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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 9

  Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Kym Lew Nelson

    Kym Lew Nelson joined the NOM unit of the Harvard Business School as a Visiting Lecturer in January of 2020. In July of 2020, she became a Senior Lecturer in the Negotiations unit. Prior to joining the faculty, Kym was a guest lecturer in the Negotiations class at... View Details

    • 13 Oct 2011
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Building a Business in the Context of a Life

    Kraus comes in. Kraus teaches the second-year MBA course Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL) and is currently helping to develop a similar Executive Education program called Crossroads. The two courses attract different... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 23 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

    The programs reduce some pollution, or get rid of some waste, but they require a new allocation of money every year.” And when times get tight, that allocation is often first on the chopping block. In short, “Those top-down View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • October 2002 (Revised November 2002)
    • Case

    The EU's 13th Directive on Takeover Bids: Unlucky for Some?

    By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
    In the late 1990s, the United States boomed in the context of the so-called New Economy. The countries of the European Union--despite their progress with integration in the form of the Single Market 1992 program and the adoption of a single currency in January... View Details
    Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Corporate Governance; Germany; European Union
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    • 02 Nov 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • Article

    Products to Platforms: Making the Leap

    By: Feng Zhu and Nathan Furr
    Following the path of companies such as Apple and Amazon, more and more firms are trying to become not just product purveyors but also platform providers, facilitating direct connections between customers and other groups. Although launching a platform can generate new... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Digital Platforms; Expansion
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    • May 2011
    • Article

    Extreme Productivity

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    A veteran top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor-sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
    Keywords: Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career
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    • Career Coach

    Arun Munthala

    As the CFO of Finance Club, Arun can help point students to resources and opportunities available at HBS for preparing for interviews with investment banks and new job opportunities. Arun can also provide insight as to what banking... View Details
    • 21 Mar 2016
    • Blog Post

    MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

    I often get asked if I could choose between the Kennedy School and Business School, which one would I choose? I often respond, “You are asking a parent to point out their favorite child.” Although my friends laugh it off, I really think... View Details
    • 02 May 2016
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

    on consulting projects at both the corporate and subsidiary level that provide strategic insights, innovative ideas and fresh perspectives to Samsung’s top executives worldwide. The program has had more than 120 alumni all over the globe.... View Details
    Keywords: Technology
    • 21 Mar 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

    real benefits. I would categorize real benefits of these programs into four different buckets: Reward your existing, loyal customers, without incurring a major cost by doing so. Positively affect the... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 07 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Biotech

    cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
    • 28 Aug 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

    businesses. But small business credit was hit hard during the recent recession and has been slow to recover. Beginning in early 2009, the federal government acted quickly to unfreeze credit markets with programs ranging from loan... View Details
    Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice

    By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria
    More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory
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    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    By: Peter Tufano
    Tufano is the convener for an innovative global doctoral reading group, The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS). This novel course, taught with professors from Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Texas, Imperial, NYU, Mannheim, and Oxford brings together... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Parul Singh

    As the president of HBS Tech Club, Parul can help point students to resources and opportunities available at HBS for preparing for interviews with technology companies, and new job opportunities. Parul can also provide insight as to what... View Details