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31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

and paralyzed. Flint: Can you say more about the services you provide at OutshiningED? Ronga: It's a 12-week program, but it's essentially working through what I believe are the top hurdles to finding freedom. And like I said, a big piece... View Details

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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

taught across the School’s academic programs. Transparency is essential to achieving this goal, which is why our Annual Report includes a detailed Supplemental Financial Information section beginning on page 26. The balance of this letter... View Details

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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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AI-powered business. "HBS Online courses are excellent for anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

acted when the stakes were high; from his growing depth as a moral actor; and from his sheer will to get up each morning and do what he could in service to his mission. In early September, Union forces scored a critical military victory.... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details

03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?

make the font, where to put the prices on the menu, and what level of descriptions we should have, whether we should have pictures on the menu or not, we’ve experimented with other aspects of the service model, how we should make the... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

cushions the ill, or disadvantaged, or those who simply fail to thrive in their particular setting, geography, industry, or trade. After all, creative destruction is still destruction, even if inevitable and in the service of a net gain... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

large information technology firm. We find significant interaction effects between being of the same sex and being in the same business unit or same office on dyadic communication rates, though not with same job function. In an extension,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2022
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Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

Climate Adaptation SIP I was taken back, frightened, but also encouraged by: (1) the availability of the majority of the technical solutions needed to make our society more resilient to climate change, but the information asymmetry and... View Details

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jul 2024
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Surviving the Iditarod

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

job matching, etc.Q: As for the second fundamental, how to deliver, what creative opportunities in this downturn do you see for delivering products or services more cheaply and effectively? A: The opportunity here is in all the surplus... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

any other scholar to handle alone. But his attempt to do it changed his thinking in a profound way. He adopted a much more empirical and historical approach to economics, which informed both Business Cycles and his subsequent work. The... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

that Ponsse maintained its important characteristics as it expanded its global sales and service network? Information on the global forest industry is included. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

extensions to their proprietary solutions. The internal development organization felt that an off-the-shelf solution would never perform well enough to substitute for its proprietary technology. This belief had frustrated Domit's ability to advance his inexpensive,... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms—unwritten rules that guide public officials—influence how well state agencies deliver... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

products. This case exercise provides a hands-on way to experience the design process and offers a structured approach for incorporating key considerations that can aid in effective design. Students are asked to generate ideas for the design of a new reusable travel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

Online AI Course | HBS Online

City of Dreams

History’s Lessons

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

Can This Man Change the American Diet?

Hard Choices

First Look: January 10

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

First Look: August 27

Surviving the Iditarod

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

First Look: May 22, 2007

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

First Look at New Research, March 7

First Look: October 29