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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

M. Henderson : Chosen as one of three “Directors of the Year” by the Financial Times . Frank Nagle : Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, Term-Member, 2019. Jan W. Rivkin : Finalist for the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference Best Paper... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

Take stock of the impressions you’ve gotten about working parenthood, and then step back and ask, What’s going to work for me? Define this for yourself.” Daily routine: A good long walk. “I’m not trying to outpace anybody. I don’t count my steps. It’s just about... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

can readily include standardized trustworthy data about the surge capacity plans of individual hospitals—updated in real time. Understandability. An expert should analyze plans and frame them in a way that the public would understand. A... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

of that, due to COVID, I started all of my Required Curriculum (RC) classes virtually—including this one—and I was not in a classroom setting frame of mind. I remember feeling prepared to discuss the case but after I was cold-called and... View Details

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' decision when using a narrow time View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

about what you earn Syllabus 5 Modules, 30-35 Hours Download full syllabus Introduction Lenses on the World Adopt a strategic mindset and learn how to generate and articulate your strategic questions. Highlights Framing Your Strategic... View Details

Research Summary

Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty

My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

them kept very simple agendas, not long to-do lists. Their agendas were divided into three time periods: zero to six months, six to eighteen months, and eighteen months and longer. Have only two or three items on your zero-to-six-month View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Career Passions through Short Intensive Programs – Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer

disruption and its implications for the strategies people carefully constructed for a world that no longer fit their assumptive patterns. The course is tackling urgent business issues at the strategic and operational levels in the same time View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

start; landing stretch assignments; and building a network of developmental relationships. In framing each of these four challenges from the point of view of the emerging leader, I hope to underscore my belief that management, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

really is less about managing content and more about managing or framing context, creating an environment in which these people can negotiate the best solution for the organization. Q: What is your advice for people who want to develop... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

the couple viewed it. In fact, the same actions—going on a regular date night or making coffee for a partner—may be framed by some couples as mere routines, but by others as meaningful rituals. The researchers found that the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

frame and articulate that value. Second, price-testing is increasingly important. In his autobiography written in 1963, ad man David Ogilvy noted that, “Most people assume companies use scientific methods in pricing, but throughout my... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

TeachingInterests

Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

the right questions," says Kaplan, a Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School. "Most leaders spend a lot of their time looking for answers. Very often, they may feel isolated and alone. I want to help them refocus their attention on View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

a “blood to burritos” framing of logistics-for-all? Participants will leave with an understanding of what it takes to create a company on the technological cutting-edge in Africa, and how emerging markets might well be a source of... View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

assume we have fantastic R&D people," he continues. "They are building ideas. They might never ask the question, 'Is this relevant to the company, customers, and marketplace?' Sometimes they might just work with the budget they have on a potential... View Details