Systems Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Consultant at McKinsey & Company and Program Associate at the Education Outcomes Fund. Jake Sweed (MBA 2024, Section G), Summer Internship: Chief of Staff to the CEO, TS Conductor While the electricity system is the backbone of the... View Details

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern... January 2020 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Systems View Details

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

integrated 21-inch tablet computers have become a fitness sensation. For $39 per month, Peloton offers access to live-streamed classes where members can track their performance on a leader board, virtually connect with fellow classmates,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

successful deployment by credible players (e.g., EDS in systems integration and outsourcing, services such as waste cleanup and welfare recipient job placement for government agencies, and many advertisers... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

2009
Working Paper

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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01 Mar 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Banking On It

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Marc Escapa (MBA 2017) Andres Klaric (MBA 2017) Cofounders and co-CEOs, Fuse Concept: Fuse makes it easier for lenders to tackle digital innovation, offering a next-gen loan-origination platform that simplifies... View Details

Keywords: fintech; finance; entrepreneurship; Finance

22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

What are our priorities? We believe there could be a stronger disability culture at HBS and in many of the spaces that we occupy professionally and personally. Our vision is to bring historically marginalized voices to the center of our experience, and to empower them... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

unfortunately, there are some cases where it stimulated the immune system and not only it didn't confer protection, but actually helped the virus invade the cell because it was incomplete in terms of its immunogenic properties. We have to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

2008
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Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan

David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article. The article was based on a multi-company research project that studied performance measurement in companies whose intangible assets played a central role in value... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Improvement; Strategy

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Competition provides a unique opportunity for students to put entrepreneurship principles into practice with an integrative learning experience. Students may participate in either the Business Track (for ventures whose economic returns... View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

described the limitations of their current system and gave an overview of their needs and expectations. After the presentation, a dialogue opened up between the executives and the prospective bidders. Representatives from consulting firm... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Fourthly, although a low-profile corporation, Unilever was embedded in business systems and official decision-making worldwide. This was derived from the company's long-established position as a large firm in many countries, from its role... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... September 2016 (Revised October 2018) HBS Case Collection Springfield Hospital by Susanna Gallani and Robert Kaplan One of the key roles of costing systems is to support... View Details

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

strategies, and to develop integrated management control systems that tied the activities of marketers to particular investments. These management control systems provided... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

information systems for Salomon Brothers. In 1981, with the idea for a technology company that would bring greater transparency and fairness to the financial system, he launched a small startup in a one-room office. Today, Bloomberg L.P.... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

Frontier (218084) by Shawn Cole and Caitlin Lindsay Reimers Brumme FEBRUARY 2018 In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began to explore how to more systematically integrate impact and financial management. After... View Details

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

platforms, in contrast to most other firms who focused on stand-alone applications. It was an approach that permeated both their tools business—the software they provided to other programmers for developing applications; and the operating View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

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