Helping - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

twentieth-century industrial organization structures to twenty-first-century information-based organization structures. Q: In your novel, though Barton had been willing to critique his predecessor for constantly fighting fires, he found himself facing the same... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

faced by health care leaders: being accountable for both medical and financial outcomes. With the focus on dramatically enhancing patient care, this intensive program helps professionals design, manage, and improve their organizations. At... View Details

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Mollie Breen

already helped shape Mollie's business ideas. "The curriculum inspires brainstorming," she says, and helps develop practical skills and approaches. "I've learned, for example, about the value... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

universe, pun intended, from a timing perspective that you didn't have doubt. It just felt right. But I agree with you, what helped that certainty was all the countless hours and years spent tuning in, shaping it, looking at it, writing... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Benioff has long espoused the need for a more equitable economic system and has stated that the current pandemic “is a tremendous opportunity for all CEOs and all businesses to really put their resources right out there and say, 'We're going to do everything we can to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

might sound straightforward, she says, “Sometimes we believe we are being receptive when in fact we are doing just the opposite: being on the defensive.” Taken together, the findings of the two studies can help business leaders both... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

the ability to help clients navigate and implement in this relatively new marketplace is valuable. However, working at scale means less ability to do client-specific work on small accounts. Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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History Matters

Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, Robert Bruner (MBA 1974/DBA 1982) and Sean Carr make the case that looking into financial crises of the past can help clarify current conditions—and inform one’s outlook on the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with three partners, he developed a... View Details

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

sandwiched between Nobel Prize—winner Robert Merton, who helped create the Black-Scholes options pricing model, and Michael Tushman, who had written many books and "was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Morgan Hall | About

States. Two years later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s firm was one of the most... View Details

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

Learning and Governance System that can help leaders avoid destruction, their own or their firm. These three goals are paradoxical. That is, leaders who focus on one often undermine the others. Consider how hardheaded performance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and legacy-shaped entrepreneurial imagination motivates a process of creation and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

sound processes in place, selecting and mentoring key people—to create the conditions that will help others make the right choices. At the same time, he must set the tone and define the organization's culture and values through his words... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

can. The second area where Amazon may think it can help is on price transparency: Prices are often opaque in health care. Nobody really knows the price of anything. But it’s a leap to think that by making the prices more transparent, we... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

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Morris Hall | About

first two senators to represent the state of Pennsylvania. Morris served as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784, before the office of Secretary of the Treasury was established. As superintendent of finance, Morris helped gather... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

(both MBA 2015) heard from Keith Alaniz, a fellow officer stationed in Afghanistan, about a farmer there who was concerned about having too few markets for the saffron he was growing. The trio, inspired by the man’s determination to improve his business, decided to see... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

participants. This approach recognizes that helping small farmers increase their yields will not create any lasting benefits unless there are ready buyers for their crops, other enterprises that can process the crops once they are... View Details

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Teele Hall | About

faculty, especially in math and social sciences, in order to equip MBAs with the knowledge required to lead mid-20th-century businesses. He also launched a review of the MBA curriculum and reorganized and enlarged the doctoral program to View Details

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

quickly to world events The upshot, Cavallo says, is that retail prices have become less insulated from economic shocks, like changes in fuel costs or exchange rates, as retailers capture changing costs more quickly. This helps explain... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

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