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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
process redesign. Over the years, the CIO job has remained a hot seat in business and has, in turn, become a key management position in executing a company's competitive cost structure and strategy. It has become a key senior management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
operations resumed to restock clients’ stores, although a significant number of B2C orders are still required by its clients. Case 2: Process innovation Faced with a sudden surge in home delivery orders,... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
analysis," he continues, "reveals that Firestone failed not despite, but because of its historical success." In this excerpt Sull shows how, from the start, Firestone's reliance on managers' existing strategic frames and values and the company's View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and basically starve the other businesses of resources and ultimately exit them. So that was the first five years of my administration, and it worked out extraordinarily successfully. So within five years, we had gone from about 100 Dunkin’ Donuts shops to something on... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
“preemptively decoupling.” Instead of waiting to be disrupted, you just break it. When Amazon started selling electronics online, it created apps that encouraged customers to go to a store and check out the prices and products, but order... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
to Make Careful Decisions? Summing up reader responses, Professor Jim Heskett finds compelling arguments for a process involving intuition based on analysis and experience. Should people also make their own decision-making View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
every day in order to foster a 'one club' attitude. And even early on, despite calls from many observers to play it safer ("You can't win anything with kids" is what a respected television commentator famously said at the time), he gave... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
startup Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors Who Will Benefit Aspiring Entrepreneurs Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Students Whether you’re a first-time entrepreneur with the start of an idea or are exploring... View Details
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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online
data processing practices of Harvard Business School or other Harvard University organizations independently of our Websites and Services. Your use of our Services is subject to the HBS Online Terms of Use . Additional terms may apply for... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
past success and strove for even greater heights. But what do his efforts for Kind of Blue have in common with business innovation? Rob Austin: We conceived the case to get at questions about how the creative process "detaches"... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
learning, which happens after the fact. Both, he says, can be either independent or coactive. Watching surgery through the observation glass, for example, may be on-line learning, but it doesn’t give a doctor enough of an appreciation for how to perform a surgery. In... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
services. “The process of creating those specialized inputs creates new knowledge, which eventually leads to more innovation,” Mills says. Supply chains have a large number of linkages to many different downstream industries. “They have... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
startup ecosystem to improve your chances of raising capital Get an insider view into the venture capital (VC) process Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup ecosystem Who Will Benefit... View Details
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Research
The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
Although adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for the enterprise is still in the early days, the technology has matured enough for entrepreneurs to start gathering inspiration and evaluating opportunities for potential applications. Every... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
receive money conveniently. In order to use the service, the customer hands his money to the agent, plus a transfer fee (about 40 cents). Through a computerized process secured by multiple passwords and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
processes to provide managers throughout P&G with direct access to up-to-date data and advanced analytics. In addition, GBS has embedded analysts within the business units to work alongside leaders and managers in driving real-time... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino