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- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Building blocks: “In mastery learning, a student moves at his or her own pace and takes as many shots on goal as needed to master a concept, before advancing. If I’m one teacher with 30... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53512 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
different time zones, so you have to trust that they’re going to wake up and respond to you at the first available opportunity. But just letting go is hard, I guess. PC: I couldn’t agree more. It has actually been very eye-opening: As long as you are enabling your... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
relationships to attain the desired outcome. Of comparable importance is an understanding of why the other partner wishes to engage in the collaboration so that the participant can be responsive to those goals and needs. In thinking about... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work together to achieve their View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the managerial and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In addition to being the Cahners-Robb... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
HBS model proves successful at achieving its goal is for others to decide. That said, I hope my book will open our model to broader scrutiny and jump-start that conversation. A few conditions are nonetheless needed for vocal silence to... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan Publication:Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups Abstract Business groups—collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
investigating the effects of psychological safety on process improvement in a number of hospital intensive care units. One future research goal is to study multiple voice episodes for a given individual, so... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
[ought to] have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals which keeps it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevents its drifting in undesired directions" (emphasis added). As shown in the case of Alfred Sloan at General... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
90 students to break into multiple small groups or reassemble as a whole. Moon calls the hives a breakthrough in how to foster a different kind of teaching and learning. While the FIELD course has garnered most of the attention,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as submarines and aircraft carriers, are trained to follow processes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
Ibarra, Herminia, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb Abstract—Even when CEOs make gender diversity a priority-by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
many tradeoffs Barge must make in balancing the benefits of the former organization with those of the new structure to achieve the firm's strategic goal of becoming more customer-solutions oriented. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
stroke, multiple sclerosis, or other ailments. More than 80 percent of stroke survivors live with residual gait impairments, and helping patients in clinics involves manual, labor-intensive work. The lab is not only developing equipment... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
goal — getting the task at hand done right. This convergence among a new generation of international business practitioners has a parallel at the institutional level: International businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for the market, and a call center... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
foster a culture that aligns all employees around the shared goals of customer solutions. 3) Clout: redistribute power to "bridge builders" and customer champions. 4) Capability: develop employees' skills at tackling changing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace