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29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

finish. We were able to physically walk through the process from the intake of turbine components and parts through gearbox assembly, nacelle engineering, hub construction, and blade installation. Vestas site in Odense. Source: Authors.... View Details

10 Jan 2018
Blog Post

EXPERTS SHARE 5 TIPS TO BECOME A BETTER MANAGER

manage. 1. Have a process At its core, good management is all about processes. A process is a series of steps or actions that results in a particular outcome. When you look at management and decision... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

2011
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Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Responses to Environmental Protection in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Jianjun Zhang and Yanhua Zhou

We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present a number of resulting implications for doing business there. We identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Alignment; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; China

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30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

get "more bang for their buck" from their board members' time? The answer to all three questions is yes—if what a company expects of its board members is redefined and if the meeting process is redesigned so that the board's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you get after you’ve put new View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

06 Aug 2014
What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

as the father of leadership." In an extended remembrance that Bill sent to me, he went on to say that "It was Warren who first said leadership is not a set of genetic characteristics, but rather the result of the lifelong View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

values and pay them fairly, it seems an interesting proposal for both the company and the individual." Juan Manuel Salas Guevara commented that the challenge in Holacracy "is a strong communication process from the top level of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

their networking devices for one evening of PTO, "predictable time off." There could be no perceived increase in anyone's workload or deterioration in client service resulting from the PTO. She provided the group with a process... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

Kay puts it, "The mistake is to make inferences about the relationships between outcomes and processes when we cannot observe and do not understand the processes themselves." The argument is that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

One Acre Fund, leading operations serving nearly 1 million farmers. Her most recent responsibilities included building a stronger ‘know your customer’ process and credit score model to better assess and accommodate the risk associated... View Details

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

driven by the fears of the past: ensuring nuclear safety and radiological health and avoiding nuclear proliferation. However, our actual experience with these issues has been far different than anticipated. Political leaders and voters need to ask regulators to... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

challenges. Water Treatment Plant Visit During our visit to the city’s water treatment plant, we were struck by the scale and complexity of Mumbai’s water management system. The facility currently processes 2,800 mega liters of water per... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Books

Code of Change. Despite its importance, Beer and Nohria assert that the process of change remains poorly understood, and only a third of corporate change initiatives succeed. After encountering widely divergent assumptions by leading... View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2015
News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

perfecting the process of entering a market. Take on only as many new markets as you can open while rigorously following your process to make sure you do it right. — Dan Wallace (MBA 1986) My recommended... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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2+2 Program | MBA

2+2 Program A deferred admission process for current students, either in college or full-time master’s degree programs. Play Video duration: 0:52 1,564 Total 2+2 applicants in 2024 103 Committed 2+2 students 61 Undergraduate institutions... View Details

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

called "BigAC" in the paper.) Ramarajan, McGinn, and Kolb attempted to answer several questions about the relationship between societal and organizational change. What is the process through which an organization responds to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

01 Jun 2025
News

Forum

Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Pursuing A Passion in Health Care

and eventually drafting up the business case (where I get to apply my net present value and weighted average cost of capital skills from first-year finance classes!). I’ve enjoyed the exposure to the Danaher lean processes and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

17 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference

markets, to changing the drug discovery process to be more patient-centric. A highlight of the panel sessions was when Adam Koppel, EVP of Strategy and Corporate Development at Biogen and Health Care Investing panel moderator, said that... View Details