Management Practices and Processes - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

through a new course for MBA students, Why You Should Care: Creating the Conditions for Excellence, co-taught with Senior Lecturer and venture capital guru Amy Schulman. Together, they created a course unlike any other at the school, both... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2010
Working Paper

The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-periphery Structures Dominate?

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some of which are core to system function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Product Design; Practice; Core Relationships; Software; Information Technology Industry

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26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

roles, products, processes (assembly, equipment maintenance and repair, materials logistics, training, system redesign, administration, etc.), and hierarchical levels (from... View Details

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

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

at Kwinters, the hot-dog stand in my local mall, where I learned how to cook five varieties of hot dogs, managed cash, cleaned the oily fryers and greasy hot-dog containers, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

What is the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative? The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative applies innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to drive sustained, high-impact social change. It's... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

Frequently Asked Questions Frequently Asked Questions What is the HBS Health Care Initiative? The HBS Health Care Initiative (HCI) was launched in 2005 to impact managerial practice and the pace of... View Details

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Esteves Hall | About

team. He was inspired to pursue this undertaking because of his interest in education and in opportunities to improve management education in Brazil by sharing best practices... View Details

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

as academics that rely on using the press. The more interactions I had with managers convinced me that they're always thinking about the press. So everybody's thinking about it, but we know nothing about it, as academics we couldn't say... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales,” “a parasitic economic logic,” “a rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth,” “as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

31 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

global warming. First, it could do nothing and stabilize its emissions at the company's 2005 levels with internal energy-saving strategies and the purchase of carbon emissions offsets. A 10 percent reduction... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different countries, according to the case.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

how the bank essentially replaces an expensive part of the operations process for dairy farmers in the Emilia Romagna region of Northern Italy. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, Credem stores and ages... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization, making the equity stakes of earlier... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

finished the race. And she spent the next day completely out of commission. Like many endurance athletes, Picasso had started drinking Pedialyte to speed up the recovery process after her toughest workouts,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

Your Organization 5-6 hrs Module 5 Managing the Strategy Development Process Effectively balance the deliberate and emergent strategy processes... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Shyam Benegal Shabana Azmi Walter A. Friedman Lecturer of Business Administration Director, Business History Initiative Research Interests : business history , economics , entrepreneurship , marketing , sales force management Joseph B.... View Details

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