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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Rosabeth M. Kanter : Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected by Strategy+Business as one of the Best Business Books on Talent and Leadership... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

system can require scores if not hundreds of person-work-years to be designed. No one person can be responsible for the design of a whole system. No one is either smart enough or long-lived enough to do the design work single handedly.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

barrel careening over Niagara Falls. It’s not that IoT has flopped; far from it. Everything in our homes seems to be connected. IoT devices enable networks that make possible smart speakers, smart TVs, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

metaverse Decentralized networks and applications; users control/monetize their data Smart applications EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB Web 1.0 1990–2005 Web 2.0 2005–Present Web 3.0/Web3 2020s– "Read-only" web (Encyclopædia Britannica,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Market Research Reports in General Databases

Multi-Industry Central and Eastern Europe EMIS 2013 to current Roland Berger Aerospace, Automotive, Capital Markets Europe EMIS 2013 to current Smart Research Fast-growing, niche industries Australia, Brazil, China, Indonesia,... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Technical University of Munich in 2009. 2008 Lauren H. Cohen : Named a 2008 Cutting Edge Academic, Smart Money, Pensions & Investments, 2008. Lauren H. Cohen : Won the 2008 Smith Breeden Prize for a distinguished paper in the Journal... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

well you buy and integrate but also, and more importantly, on how smart your bet about industry boundaries is. As with M&A as R&D, this approach is hard to analyze rigorously. In this case, though, this difficulty is not because... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

serves as the basis of the terminal value), capital expenditures will just equal depreciation, indicating no growth in assets. In effect, understating capital intensity inflates values. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from How... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

uncovered a problem that prevented greater racial equity gains: Black hosts were 41 percent less likely than white hosts to take advantage of the smart pricing application. And for the Black hosts who didn’t use it during the study... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

Source: peterhowell Big data has shifted the ground under every business, enough so that many managers are waking up to the fact that they are already behind in developing a smart data strategy. Data has always been important in business,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Ahmed Alimi

Ahmed. "In Nigeria where I studied before now, the teaching method is lecture-based. The case method is very different for me—but it's a confidence-building process. Whatever you say, you have to be ready to back it up with evidence, because you have 95 View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

excellence in quality and timeliness of editorial work, in the role of Associate Editor. David J. Collis : “Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?” (with Michael G. Rukstad, April 2008) was selected by the editors at Harvard Business Review for the 2013 HBR OnPoint issue... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Fortune showcased a number of his images on full pages. These celebratory portrayals of U.S. Steel’s industrial might aligned with the ideals of Henry Luce, the publisher of Fortune , who spoke of his vision of the magazine as an opportunity to capture “the dignity and... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in smart contracts helps businesses... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

smart people of that time believed that technology had reached its limits and capitalism had passed its peak. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. Q: Schumpeter introduced the term “creative destruction” and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

club. The name captures the fear that people felt: They weren’t willing to say that there’s gay people here, but everyone needed a place to be themselves. I didn’t have the courage to be completely out at HBS, though I remember saying to myself, “Goddammit, I’m View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

departure? Embrace SMART thinking This next component is particularly challenging for leaders: compiling the data, making a SMART action plan, and setting a timeline. At this juncture, there are a few paths... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

there and tell them that we were taking the company to higher ground. We were going to get the workplace and the marketplace right. I think every CEO needs to do that in a smart way." See related story on Higher-Ambition CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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 the more distant future we will... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

more thought if responses are an indicator. But as Wallace Earner puts it, "A long, strong struggle with a good question is much better than quick, smart answers." Many took an "it would be nice if " stance. Among them, Clifford Brown... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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