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Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

students develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement transformational change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous improvement, organizational... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power,... View Details

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Corporate Training Programs | HBS Online

global support team dedicated to participant success. Contact Us In Good Company HBS Online programs align with organizations large and small, across various industries and geographies. Here are a few of the outstanding organizations who... View Details

10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315138-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-039 Leader-as-Architect: Alignment Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2013
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Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

federal and state governments, and negative publicity driven by special interest groups." Shadreck Saili added, "Is a company this large manageable? 'Yes' for as long as its policies align with policies of the environments it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

04 Dec 2012
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interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

nonprofits more by educating them on building business frameworks and developing organizational strategy. "There are core questions that help teach organizations how to perform," he said. Working to strengthen the underlying strategies of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

perform. That is, AI could inadvertently serve to exacerbate the patient-volume problem, rather than relieve physician workloads and improve the patient experience. Health care is at a turning point: We need policies and organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

leaders must bring to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in their companies, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, and how they align behaviors to their specific growth... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

15 Dec 2024
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On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do? "I got this nervous laughter," says Gulati, an expert on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

bancos mexicanos. The Competitive Advantage of Management Accounting Author:Robert S. Kaplan Periodical:Journal of Management Accounting Research 18 (2006): 127-135 Abstract The article discusses the role for management accounting systems to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

December 2005 (Revised March 2007)
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Leerink Swann & Co.: Creating Competitive Advantage

By: Boris Groysberg and Andrew N. McLean

In the spring of 2005, CEO Jeff Leerink has called a meeting of the executive committee to formulate Leerink Swann's growth strategy over the next five years so that it accomplishes three goals: expand into a new business, reinforce the firm's legacy businesses, and... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Human Resources; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Alignment; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion

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01 Mar 2003
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last five years has been nearly $1 trillion in underperforming investment in the United States alone. Although its central message is that managers need to think more coherently about their project portfolios in order to align them with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational cultures are varied, and participants have clashing or even antagonistic perspectives. I have studied more than a dozen cross-industry innovation projects, among them... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

particular field to work on projects across the School rather than be aligned with a specific academic unit at HBS, explains Drew Keller (MBA 2022), director of BiGS, who notes that next year’s cohort will focus on climate change and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strategies for health plans, employers, suppliers, and governmental entities. By exploring real-world implementations, you will learn how to navigate the strategic and organizational challenges inherent in evolving your health care... View Details

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

just be concerned with the value captured by the one-time formulation of a beautifully aligned competitive strategy, which was the focus of the RC Strategy course, but by the value potential of their business model and with its value... View Details

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

different ends of the career spectrum with a shared belief in their powerlessness" These companies have created new business opportunities by identifying societal problems that align with—or become part of—the firm’s operating... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

Krishna Palepu that will extend ALD's objectives to include cultivating a greater capacity for cultural intelligence. "It's not so much about understanding geopolitics," George says. "The characteristics that I've cited above are far more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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