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IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS | Information Technology

intelligence (GenAI) and an increasing availability of tools. With a desire to be at the forefront of this new technology, HBS IT launched a strategic initiative to evaluate opportunities and risks in order to ensure informed... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business

tailored to the needs of a management team. Participants can explore issues related to their company in private online, applying Christensen’s theories and frameworks to find solutions to strategic questions posed by their executive... View Details

07 Aug 2017
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A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

knowledgeable coach, ready to help users do whatever they need to get done. In fact, the City of Boston has spent the last 3+ years reinventing how it interacts with citizens online in exactly this way. The City Hall team I joined this... View Details

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Rocio Parra

departments and P&Ls, human capital management and higher level strategic decision-making. What did you learn during the job search process? Through the job search process, I learned about the power of networking and the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: Retail

10 Sep 2014
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A Summer Reflection

to leadership. In my previous job as a consultant, I was of the mindset that, if I left consulting for corporate America, I would never get to interact with senior leadership until I was much further along in my career. This was most... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

don't know what Twitter is. In 2015, the average American spent more than one-third of her media interaction time online and around one-third watching television, 10 percent reading magazines and newspapers, and 10 percent listening to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements critical to creating... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

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Mike Watitwa

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? As I advanced in my professional life, I recognized some opportunities for growth and development. I realized that to be able to make a real impact, I needed to advance my leadership, communication, and View Details

01 Jun 2000
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and creating a balanced scorecard. Finally, he demonstrates how to achieve profit-oriented goals and strategies by using diagnostic and interactive control systems, aligning performance goals and incentives, identifying and managing View Details

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

Race and Seeming Racist? Evaluating Strategic Colorblindness in Social Interaction Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Samuel R. Sommers, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

since both types of acquirer (and the target) can access misvalued debt markets. However, moral hazard and insurance effect differences between types of buyers interact with potential debt misvaluation debt, leading to a dominance of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

Case 714-417 A Note on Strategic Interaction No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/714417-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-421 Taking Dell Private In July 2012, Michael... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2025
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How Student-Proposed Internships Can Create Value

Bing—and how her proactive outreach turned into a strategic internship opportunity. Not every summer internship starts with a job posting. For Jessica Zukhovich (MBA 2024), her summer role with fashion brand Anine Bing began with... View Details

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

mandated language change at a Chilean subsidiary of a large U.S. multinational organization. The engineering-focused subsidiary aiming to facilitate cross-border interactions embedded language acquisition experts to transition all... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

when he began his own pottery workshop in 1759. Nevertheless, each of the three, she writes, instinctively grasped the fundamentals of earning long-term customer trust and loyalty. Effective brand creation and management have a vital View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

you work in product, operations, marketing, or supply chain. "This was an excellent course with concepts that were immediately applicable to my consulting business." Kerri Roche Owner and Strategic Planner, Sift View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word

uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To... View Details