Competency and Skills - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

Skilling as COO. Putting aside the matter of business models and controls, "The main story," he said, is a case of "ethical drift." If you look at a lot of the fraud cases, before fraud... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Openings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

obscure company or a "boring" industry, but for all cases consider how you can raise student engagement by incorporating comments in the opening regarding: Why this class/case is important to students both novice and expert What the View Details

23 May 2018
News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

comfortable are probably not paying enough attention,” she says. As someone skilled at balancing accolades and apprehension, Abby Johnson seems to be in just the right place. Return to Alumni Achievement... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

two years and in-person with set schedules. An online program like CLIMB provides flexibility and convenience to take courses and develop business View Details

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

and other sources. But most sales models are based on a linear “pipeline” view of buying and need updating. However, while it’s an omnichannel buying world, it’s not a digital-eats-physical world, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Jan 2024
News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

that provided subsidies for low-carbon production, and by the Netherlands adopting the EU’s revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), which established regulatory targets for clean transport fuels. Interestingly, the breakeven carbon... View Details

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

comments below. Summing up last month’s column Last month, I asked what we could do to sustain organization diversity and whether we err in first hiring a more diverse workforce, perhaps to meet a goal, before working on View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

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Joiner - Entrepreneurship

about HBS Resources by attending E-ship Day and reading Rock/i-lab Newsletters Build relevant skills and experience: Startup Bootcamp team HBS Clubs’ workshops Rock View Details

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

service alternatives or provide incentives in order to facilitate customer choice with fewer regrets. According to Iyengar, " choosing helps us create our lives. We make choices and are in turn made by them. Science can assist us in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

beloved,” she says. But beloved didn’t pay the bills, and by 2015, after decades of pressure from big chains and the internet, the small, independent store was on the verge of closing. That’s when Brody, a... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Sep 2022
News

The Beauty Guide

this is all about: positioning the next group of Latina women to rise to their roles—not only with the skill and knowledge of the business but also with the empathy, understanding, View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Engagement Opportunities - Business & Environment

professional skills and relationships that support their future careers. Program includes a weekend retreat at the Harvard Forest, dinners and workshops with leaders in the... View Details

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Training Materials - Research Computing Services

Training Training Materials 23ms Research Computing Services offers training on a wide range of topics. Whether you are looking to review a training workshop you attended or learn new skills at your own self-directed pace, take a look at... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997 View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

prevalent workplace emotions such as envy and admiration, as well as additional techniques for coping with anxiety, such as applying the elaborate rituals athletes employ before competing to a business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

pitch their experience and skills to each other. That’s how Goble met Dr. Wayne Lencer, a Harvard Medical School professor who had spent a decade developing technology to enable the oral delivery of... View Details