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    Tatiana Sandino

    Tatiana Sandino is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management Unit, most recently teaching and undertaking the role of course head for the required first-year MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. She has... View Details

    Keywords: retailing; service industry
    • 09 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 9

    exactly what they want to learn in order to determine if testing is the best approach. Have stakeholders made a commitment to abide by the results? Are they willing to walk away from a project if the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Work‐from‐anywhere: The productivity effects of geographic flexibility

      An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work‐from‐anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work‐from‐home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility,... View Details

        Dorothy A. Leonard

        Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

        Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
        • 30 Sep 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: September 30, 2008

        competition effect whereby increasing rivalry shapes, and often decreases, incentives to expend effort and invest in innovation; and 2) a parallel search effect whereby adding greater numbers of "searchers" benefits innovation View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • September 2021 (Revised February 2022)
        • Case

        Sawiris Foundation: Elevating Education in Egypt

        By: Brian Trelstad and Alpana Thapar
        Founded in 2001 by the Sawiris family, one of the wealthiest families in Egypt, the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD) invested in human capital and provision of basic social services for the most marginalized Egyptians. In 2015, Noura Selim’s (MBA 2013)... View Details
        Keywords: Sustainable Development; Social Enterprise; Education; Social Issues; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; Egypt
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        • December 16, 2019
        • Article

        Why Your Startup Won't Last

        By: Ranjay Gulati and Vasundhara Sawhney
        Why do some startups that have crossed the threshold of “product-market fit” and have a viable business model still fail? This article begins by exploring the argument that most startups need more professionalization to thrive. Founders resist putting in place... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Growth and Development Strategy
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        • February 2016 (Revised March 2016)
        • Case

        America's Cup in 2013: Oracle Team USA vs. Emirates Team New Zealand (A)

        By: Rory McDonald, Alan MacCormack and Vanessa Ampelas
        Four teams across the world are furiously designing, building, testing, and learning to sail a boat that would be one-of-a-kind in order to win the 2013 America's Cup. Choosing the best development path was a challenge as the teams had less than three years to prepare,... View Details
        Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Innovation and Management; Sports; Sports Industry; New Zealand; United States
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        Finance for Senior Executives

        Exploring the flow of financial resources, capital markets, and systems for financial management and control, this executive finance program positions you to drive new levels of profitability for your organization. This program is eligible for the Certificate of... View Details
        • 2010
        • Book

        One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making

        By: Steven Sinofsky and Marco Iansiti
        Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book - written by Microsoft... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Organizations; Planning; Decision Making
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        • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
        • Case

        Mistry Architects (A)

        By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
        Describes an architecture firm founded and run by a husband and wife team, Sharukh and Renu Mistry, that emphasizes "green" building. The firm presents an unusual mix of projects-spanning the spectrum from larger corporate projects to small private homes. The mix also... View Details
        Keywords: Family Business; Customer Focus and Relationships; Design; Housing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution
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        • 10 Apr 2018
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

        benefit from mimicking the showroom concepts started by online-first retailers and why online-first retailers can benefit from opening more traditional stores. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54316 March... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • September–October 2015
        • Article

        Crash and Burn: Why Silicon Valley's Notion That Failure Leads to Success Won't Work for the Rest of the World

        By: Debora L. Spar
        In the frenzied hills of Silicon Valley, going bust is common. Research attests that close to half of start-ups supported by venture capital chew through most or all of their backers' money and that the majority never achieve their projected returns on investment. But... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Learning; Situation or Environment
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        • 2023
        • Article

        Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

        By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
        As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
        Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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        • April 16, 2021
        • Article

        A Playbook for Negotiators in the Social Media Era

        By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David Lax, Ron S. Fortgang, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
        The disruptive effects of social media have been felt in virtually every corner of the world. Yet the information revolution has been largely ignored in the field of negotiation. Through a series of case studies we explore how savvy practitioners can ethically harness... View Details
        Keywords: Negotiation Analysis; Bargaining; Negotiation; Analysis; Negotiation Tactics; Social Media; North America
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        Strategy

        By: Jan W. Rivkin

        The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy, and provides an understanding of:

        • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
        • How to generate superior value for... View Details
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        Overview

        By: Benjamin C. Esty
        I created and teach a course called Strategies for Value Creation (SVC). It is designed to be a capstone course in the Elective Curriculum (EC or second year of the MBA program) that integrates and further develops concepts developed in several Required Curriculum (RC... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Finance; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Financial Management
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        Making Corporate Boards More Effective

        resilience, strategic direction, executive compensation, and regulatory compliance. At the same time, you will learn how to work more effectively with fellow directors and company management to strengthen governance, manage unexpected... View Details
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        Overview

        Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details
        Keywords: International Economy; Macroeconomics; Political Economy
        • 11 Dec 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: December 11, 2007

        ridiculed Babson's forecasting methods, which were informed by his belief, based on his reading of Isaac Newton, that economic "actions and reactions" (or depressions and expansions) would always be equal. But Babson was able to... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace