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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
Imagine an organization made up of a variety of three-dimensional shapes. Rectangular blocks represent the functions: manufacturing, R&D, and sales and marketing. The spheres are regional offices. Pyramids represent product groups—one... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
occupancy, providing a "spillover" effect. We find that the effects of inpatient workload on LOS spillover across patient types, which we theorize results from most inpatients, regardless of type, utilizing the same shared... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
Every now and again we have some really big news to share with prospective students. This week’s announcement about the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences joint degree was no exception. In a previous post we outlined some of the program... View Details
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Africa - Global Activities 2020
and then returned to their home country to work at Peak Investment Capital—a possibility enabled by the HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO: Africa) they each received. Above all, they share a passion for wanting to build businesses in... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
depended on a more dynamic development of the entire regional economy. On his own initiative, in 1997, Groot launched a private sector-driven effort to enhance the economic development in central Germany, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
high-impact boards ready to face the unprecedented challenges of a post-pandemic world. In response to steadily growing interest among HBS alumni in serving on nonprofit boards, the Northern California and Boston clubs have previously produced View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Business School professors who have signed the petition, and asked them to share why they openly oppose the Executive Order. Here are their initial responses. David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
behavior; (3) a top-down or laissez-faire style by the leader, which prevents honest conversation about problems; (4) a lack of coordination across businesses, functions, or regions due to poor organizational design; (5) inadequate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
else that they’ve done, from a physical retail perspective, has been a pop-up. The whole point of the retail experience is not to sell the product, but to introduce you to the brand in a way that can be shared with others through social... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
leadership experience in their respective industries. Most are founders or the current leaders of family businesses, and their enterprises, whether for-profit or non-profit, are pre-eminent companies in their country, region and in some... View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
life far more than the achievements we put on our resumes. I hope the relationships you’ve cultivated—with each other and with the School—will continue to nurture you, and that you will continue to nurture them. Beyond these shared... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
Transplantation Network (OPTN). This national registry and waiting list is managed by the private nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which has the unenviable task of making priority and allocation decisions for each new... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
in the organizations they lead. " Fostering creativity in others is what former student Jeffrey H. Flemings (MBA '96) does for a living. Flemings, associate director of the Consumer Insight Group at Arnold Communications, a regional... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
far more on fragrances and skin care than Americans, who in turn spend far more on color cosmetics than Europeans. The Asia-Pacific region is a modest market for fragrance, accounting for only 6 percent of the world fragrance market, but... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
uniquely collaborative organizational culture, which featured a transparent, data-driven compensation system, practice-group integration across multiple offices, and rewards for attorneys who shared responsibility, had contributed to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says Sahlman. Plugging HBS In... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
be achieved if the Argentine society underwent a cultural transformation, setting solidarity as a core shared value. Its association with the prestigious newspaper La Nación served as a valuable tool in attaining such an objective; it was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
the water for sails on the ocean near his Dartmouth, Massachusetts, summer home. “I grew up sailing every day on the Great Lakes, and that experience has stayed with me,” he says. In his first interview since becoming Dean, Light shared... View Details