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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
the community in which they are located. District leaders have little direct control over their environment, but must spend significant time managing these dynamics in order to implement district-wide improvement strategies. Overall, the PCF is designed to View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
dollars if you can translate the traffic into transactions. That's the idea, to get you more compellingly engaged. Even the standard 30-second TV spots are often used to capture the attention of the viewers and then direct them to the Web... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Reflections and learnings
that consumer. Some people do it through focus groups, others make it up as they go along. But there is a fierce legion of people who understand that the best place to know what she wants, needs, is delighted by, is to be right there with... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Aragon in 2001. With the launch of the Griffin Foundation in 2009, she returned capital from outside investors to focus on her young family and her civic endeavors, which also include supporting the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
course, if you're not separate at all, you can't effect change, either. People in the Internet age have to be collabronauts within their own company. That is, they have to be good collaborators who know how to focus on the new venture... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development
something you do like and focus on that.” This important step of pinpointing strengths can be achieved through assessments, but also through conversations with attentive managers. “Without any formal... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
like and focus on that.” This important step of pinpointing strengths can be achieved through assessments, but also through conversations with attentive managers. “Without any formal diagnostics, managers... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
and beyond, that focus on what the team calls “tech-enabled sustainable living.” That could mean ESG in its traditional forms, such as climate change, health care technology, or environmental tech. But MPower also expands that definition:... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
that "our assets at P&G are our people and our brands." When Lafley was named CEO, the company was in a slump because of low earnings and low morale. It had lost focus on the basics. Lafley's inspirational leadership style, which... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones. For example, on the subject of environmental sustainability, the authors observed: "It is odd that business historians have not devoted more attention to sustainability, given that, arguably,... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
management system that's held together with baling wire. It's an unacceptable situation that will require sustained attention and support over time to correct. Tell us about your modernizing effort and its View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
like most, failed. But the experience made him curious about the differences between entrepreneurial winners and losers. Having written a book about West Point, he resolved to turn his attention to “the West Point of capitalism”: HBS.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
expectations; helping us understand impact at the restaurant level of initiatives we are rolling out; and developing a pipeline of talent for the company. What have you seen as the largest growth drivers in the past 12 months? It all began with a renewed View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage. 2 But this approach, too, faced limits as companies recognized that their people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Hicks. CP+B is known for work that challenges the definition of traditional advertising (such as its 2004 Subservient Chicken Web site, created for Burger King). The agency has also garnered its share of attention through numerous... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
distribution of recipients across different groups by age, race, diagnosis, and blood type. "This gives policymakers the ability to focus on what's important and relevant," he adds. "Right now, they View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
services. IT managers typically find themselves with diverse talents. People in IT are idiosyncratically talented. This case is about putting talent where it is most effective." Companies with in-house talent tend to focus on the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
environmental concerns (for example, water treatment and usage) that a company needed to pay more attention to. The goal was to work with portfolio companies to improve their ESG ratings. By doing so we believe they could potentially... View Details