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Strategy Execution

This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

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Bloomberg: options

[PgDn] to scroll through the list of open contracts. While the roots of options tickers are based on View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Social Enterprise Track, 2013 Bluelight John Ikeda, HKS Manoah Koletty, HKS Mustafa Khalifeh Social Enterprise Track Winner Innovative consumer finance for the base of View Details

May 2022
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Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

By: Frank Nagle

While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details

Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution

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Financial reporting quality and its consequences

Does reporting quality have real economic consequences? Professor Yu addresses this question in her research, which examines the channels through which reporting quality affects the behavior of economic agents, namely managers and investors. Her particular focus is... View Details

07 Nov 2012
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HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

implementation of strategic plans. This case stimulates reflections on the importance of costing systems, in particular Time-Driven Activity View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

structure their lives in a fictional, diverse city. They were allowed to customize different aspects of the city layout based on their personal preferences, such as where to... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shah, M.D.e, Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.f, Neema Navai, M.D. Objectives: Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events... View Details

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

School. By incorporating data most companies discard, Ascarza and her co-researcher devised an algorithm capable of quickly analyzing more than 40 variables to create a “first impression” of View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

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What Black Executives Really Want

WHY DID YOU START RESEARCHING BLACK EXECUTIVES? I am not an expert in diversity and inclusion, but I had thought about marginalization, both as a child growing up in India, where I saw the marginalization of... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Why We Do What We Do: Reclaiming Mission, Data, and Impact in Nonprofit Work 01 Jul 2025 Courtnee Biscardi is Executive Vice... View Details

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

model," they write. Among the features of the approach they recommend, which is currently being used by organizations in a range of... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

Laila Tyabji

Keywords: Textiles, NGO

07 Apr 2022
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Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

a mobile base building game called Regent, and by taking a series of elective courses across multiple disciplines, from artificial intelligence to data science to business strategy. View Details

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All Functions - Recruiting

Class of 2024 Class of 2023 Class of 2022 Class of 2021 Class of 2020 Sort By: A-Z A-Z Highest to Lowest Lowest to... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

James L. Heskett, and Christopher A. Bartlett This document offers guidance and advice, including check lists, for the preparation and writing of both classroom cases and their accompanying teaching notes.... View Details

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