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- March 2018
- Teaching Note
ISRO: Explore Space or Exploit CubeSats?
ISRO, India’s space agency, established to address domestic challenges with space technology, is one of the six largest space agencies in the world. Through its 59 missions, ISRO has launched numerous satellites for communication, disaster management, navigation,... View Details
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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About
Values The teaching of ethics here is explicit, not implicit, and our community values of respect, honesty, integrity, and accountability are reinforced every day. Conflict of Interest The policy is intended to increase awareness, provide guidance, and establish a... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
working on the Data Infrastructure production team building entity recognition pipelines or with the Natural Language Processing research team developing a sentiment analysis technique, our success depended on our business competence:... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni
entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purpose In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael Kim (MBA 1990) spent his formative years in the US. As his novel Offerings heads for the big screen, Asia’s “godfather of... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
November 2017) Case Sustainability at IKEA Group By: V. Kasturi Rangan , Michael W. Toffel , Vincent Dessain and Jerome Lenhardt By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales, and planned to... View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
prison because it looks like he was the mastermind of this extraordinary plan,” says Soltes, who has amassed hundreds of pages worth of correspondence with Madoff, in addition to hours of recorded phone conversations. “But to say that he sat down and View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as meaningless. We suggest that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the processes by which they arise that leads... View Details
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One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making
By: Steven Sinofsky and Marco Iansiti
Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book - written by Microsoft... View Details
Sinofsky, Steven, and Marco Iansiti. One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
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Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship
site for information on additional program offerings (login required). CRITERIA In addition to the financial aid assessment, selection is based on the following qualitative criteria: Viability of the venture and quality of plan: As demonstrated through the executive... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Insights From Small and Medium-Sized Businesses By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans January 2025 | Article | Compensation & Benefits Review This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among... View Details
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
listen to or act upon them. An introverted leader, on the other hand, is more likely to listen to and process the ideas of an eager team. But if an introverted leader is managing a bunch of passive followers, then a staff meeting may... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance; however, it may lead to lower future performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus plan and a punitive-bonus... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
to join HBS, his plans for the classroom, and the major changes he anticipates across the energy industry to confront climate change. Emanuel is Director of Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard’s Innovation Lab and the host of the third... View Details
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to take place, market designers can address a broad range of market failures. In this paper, we illustrate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
8 The Devil Is In The Details The decisions that managers have to make as part of implementing a restructuring plan are often critical to whether the restructuring succeeds or fails. In the language of economics, implementation is the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
task.— Michael Jensen "If I know someone in the organization's lower levels can make a tough call that won't affect other parts of the company, then it's their call," says Nick Pudar, director of planning and strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Reading Energy
Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Reading Energy." Harvard Business School Case 794-102, March 1994. (Revised October 1994.)
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
flexibility and how to redesign management practices to make flexible hybrid work more productive and innovative. How Not to Bankrupt Your Family Professor Lauren Cohen + More Info – Less Info In this session, we will explore pitfalls of succession and legacy View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details