Action Plan - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

engagement to help reach the University sustainability goals (you can read about the HU Sustainability Plan here). Prior to working at Harvard, I worked for a number of different entities on renewable energy policy, analysis, and... View Details

11 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Education Sector

summer, I'm interning at KIPP, a public charter school network that aims to lower the achievement gap in K-12 education by serving underserved communities. I'm currently working on two projects: developing a 4-year strategic plan for the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

presentations had been essentially identical and the audiences at first blush quite similar, the attitudes he encountered were disparate. "In Northern California, 80 percent of the audience thought climate change was largely man-made and that urgent View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

advancement, a retirement plan and other benefits, along with life in a picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work arrangements and prioritizes work-life balance over... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2019
News

Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”

When Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (MBA 2005) outlined his citywide plan to address homelessness in September 2018, his approach included some time-tested best practices from cities with more experience grappling with the issue. Increasing... View Details

Keywords: homelessness

01 Feb 1998
News

A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)

High above the gleaming ice surface of Boston's FleetCenter, Gord Kluzak (MBA '98) gazes down intently at the fast-paced action between the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins. No ordinary spectator, Kluzak is an Emmy Award–winning... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

28 May 2019
News

Leading Questions

CEO also has a plan to empower her team. Synthesis uses Agile Action Planning—a trademark of the fast-paced world of software development—to help the CEO create a 90-day plan... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

organization and the student interns. Start with Clear Communication Clear communication is essential as companies work to ensure all of their stakeholders are well informed about plans for the future, even if those View Details

Keywords: All Industries

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

as CEO), Planned Parenthood, Habitat for Humanity, SOS Kinderdorf, and The Nature Conservancy. Each was mapped on two dimensions—one that exerts forces toward unit autonomy and the other influencing the degree of organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

advantage at Lehman was that I knew I wouldn’t stay there. I was planning to go back to San Francisco and work for my dad,” he explains. Hellman seemed to have a natural ability — he calls it genetic, given the legacy of banking in his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

from other leaders what it takes to succeed, especially in their particular role. To achieve these objectives, the program must transfer not only explicit knowledge, but also implicit cultural knowledge and unwritten norms. Three elements of the program are briefly... View Details

Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

Profile

Jan Petzel

acquainted with Community Action Nepal, a charity benefitting the people of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. In reaching Everest's summit just before his 40th birthday, Petzel committed to raising nearly $17,000—20 percent... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

globally when carrying out such a worthy but ambitious goal. And the whole story points to the personal challenges that face the originator of a cool nonprofit idea when "me-too" for-profit companies seek to compete for the same customers. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog

happens until a sale is made. That simple point underlines the critical importance of sales. Every operating model and business plan ‘assumes’ a certain amount of sales, but that assumption is the tipping point. Without sales, the entire... View Details

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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key Stakeholders Key Stakeholders... View Details

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

the future. Process planning and scenario planning make more sense than fixed projections because they focus on answerable questions. What is required to remain solvent per month? What startup costs will be... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

17 Oct 2022
Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

Projects, internships, and fellowships. HBS’s efforts reflect Harvard-wide sustainability and climate goals Back in 2014, Harvard launched a five-year Sustainability Plan which set clear University-wide goals and priorities in five areas:... View Details

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

car. The human observer was not surprised by the child in the street. Subtle behavioral cues had told him the boy was planning to cross to his mother. What was surprising was that the self-driving car simulator recognized those cues, too.... View Details