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07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

a co-founder as much as a life partner and that the same elements that make a marriage successful are those that make a co-founder relationship successful. Both founders also followed traditional career paths after HBS, which contradicted the pressure to have our lives... View Details

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Politics & Economics Adult Literacy Rates Trends Over Time Corporations Apollo Hospitals Historical Maps Commodities Apples, Bananas, Oranges, and Dates (1907) Trends Over Time Corporations Arçelik Corporation (Koç Group) Trends Over Time... View Details

Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Notes: Literacy rates are based on population surveys which were not conducted on a regular basis and did not cover many developing countries. Download Data Set in Excel Apollo Hospitals Apollo Hospitals Map created by John Regan, MBA... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Complements from Substitutes Featured Exercises Create a customer journey map to discover complementary products and services 5 hrs Module 3 Competing with Network Effects Explore the three types of network effects, their impact on WTP,... View Details

11 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

13 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Edition by Michael E. Porter See All Publications Projects & Activities U.S. Competitiveness Project U.S. Cluster Mapping Project International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement Social Progress Index View Details

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Polaroid Timeline - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive... View Details

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

"It doesn't happen overnight. Based on my observation of companies for almost a decade, I map out four levels that exemplify distinct stages through which companies may evolve on this journey." In our e-mail Q&A, we asked... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

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A Vital Residential Community | About

A Vital Residential Community Designed with the belief that daily interactions increase the potential for learning. Take a Tour Maps & Directions Contemporary Art A Commitment to Sustainability HBS is the only top business school in the... View Details

08 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

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By: Richard S. Tedlow

"A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."

strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

implementing analyses to solve real business problems. Description of silent animated video above: People walking on the street transitions into data points on a map Learn how to craft successful business strategy through the power of... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

We note that quality and process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish. Another pitfall occurs when budgeting and financial planning are done separately from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener

accounted for 29 percent. The researchers used machine learning algorithms to map the text of the job descriptions into six distinct clusters of skills: administrative, management of financial and material resources, management of human... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

with each laborious drilling trial were about one in eighty. Even that was optimistic, because the location of the refuge was imprecisely known. Maps of the tunnels had not been updated in years. Additional technical challenges disallowed... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the system. Map showing locations of centers in New Yor Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware The Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, a regional orthopedic practice, represents a different type of a value oriented regional expansion. They... View Details

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