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- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
organization culture as the culprit. He identified a dysfunctional culture as a cause of poor timing, one that magnifies a “confirmation bias that causes companies to stick with obsolete or weak strategies ... View Details
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
transformation in large organizations for three main reasons: Focus on optimization and efficiency: Many companies use technology to cut costs, improve efficiency, or enhance the productivity of their current operations. Artificial... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
Street to people-watch on a warm summer evening. Spend an afternoon on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Take advantage of food trucks, fountains, beer and wine gardens, and an oasis of organically maintained plantings—running right through the... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
Develop: An Experimentation Mindset Develop, assess, and strengthen innovation concepts, and guide prototyping by creating critical questions related to a concept's desirability, feasibility, and viability. Highlights Impact, Difficulty, and Innovation Sweet Spot Near... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
networking is beneficial to their careers, they often don't do it," says Francesca Gino, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study with Tiziana Casciaro (Rotman... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
far simpler and much more powerful than traditional ABC. "Time-driven" ABC, introduced in a recent Harvard Business Review,1 requires obtaining information on only two parameters: the cost per hour of each group of resources... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
Whether their mission is to protect wildlife, help disabled people, or offer financial services in developing countries, nonprofit organizations often believe they need to grow big before they can achieve significant social impact. HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
performance data, options that so far have not reached their full potential in Latin American countries. Another startup, Diferente, tackles food waste. According to Forbes, the region's annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
brands, simplified pricing that replaces the retailer's constant sales and coupons, and an updated store design that promises to make one think more of Apple's high-touch emporiums than a typical department store layout. “J.C. Penney is in a very tough spot.” In fact,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
people, have the will to confront Google, Facebook, Amazon and the like.” On the other hand, Wittenberg stated, “What should be feared most is government colluding with the surveillance capitalist companies—all in the name of ‘security.’” He added: “I’m View Details
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Global Activities 2020
collaboration, which is leading to meaningful results for a microfinance organization in Santiago, Chile. Middle East & North Africa South Asia Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Publications September 2014 Organization Science Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian Larkin Abstract—We examine how unfavorable social comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
firm? Explore the Coach Directory to filter coaches by industry and function expertise. Search Firms Work for the Organization The most important thing to remember when engaging with an executive search firm is that they do not work for... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
lower their expectations when job applicants or students come from low-income neighborhoods. It’s a stigma that’s hard to overcome.” Purpose Built Communities has been addressing that challenge since 2009, when the organization was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Dean Nitin Nohria | About
provides a venue for the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and leaders of organizations from across the globe. 2018 AASU 50 The 50th anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student Union was used as a... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
with the goal of working for an East Africa-based nonprofit organization after graduation. My plan was to work on the ground for a nonprofit and then pursue an MBA to combine business principals with social... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
(CEJST) breaks down the different dimensions that qualify a census tract as a DAC, and its data could be applicable in other contexts as well. One of the foundational pieces of how EJ applies to the world is understanding the existence of environmental racism. The... View Details