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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Negotiation Mastery ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your... View Details

02 May 2014
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Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

emotional sustenance, and a team of expert advisors who can help you blaze your trail and stay on the path. Entrepreneurship at HBS Harvard Innovation Labs Harvard Innovation... View Details

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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

performance measurement to drive innovation and have an outsized impact in a rapidly changing world. Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Designed to strengthen the capacity of nonprofit CEOs and... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

based on high tech innovation in engineering, or significant scientific advances) or biotech venture that is commercializing breakthrough science. Have at least 10 employees and expect to have significant growth in the number View Details

May 2020
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Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper

Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses

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January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
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Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal

Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands

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Current Research

By: Leslie K. John

Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

Campus Sustainability Innovation Fund : Supports projects that use Harvard’s campus or the neighboring community as a test bed for envisioning and piloting innovative solutions to sustainability challenges.... View Details

28 Jun 2023

Female and Focused on STEM - Inside the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard

Get ready to be inspired as we bring together a remarkable panel of female current students and alumni from the Harvard MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program for a virtual Q&A. Whether you are a current STEM undergraduate student, an... View Details

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Building Capabilities in Professional Service Firms

One of the most distinctive aspects of professional service firms is that the vast majority of the people who work in them are directly involved in serving clients. Long-term success in a professional service firm requires obtaining and developing the right... View Details

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

for greater racial and gender case representation; and integration with the University through the establishment of the Harvard Innovation Lab, the Pagliuca Life Lab, and two joint MS/MBA degrees. Full... View Details

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Our Curriculum - Business History

government in the country’s economy are investigated as well. In addition, the course examines the relation between capital market innovation and economic development and surveys the long-term impact of... View Details

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What You Can Support - Alumni

practice worldwide. Financial Aid Need-based fellowships make HBS accessible to talented future leaders and enable them to pursue a wider range of career paths. MBA Program Ongoing innovation in teaching and... View Details

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2022, over 65 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details

January 2009 (Revised January 2010)
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Responding to the Wii?

By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda

After years of gaming console industry leadership, how should Sony respond to the overwhelming success of competitor Nintendo's user-friendly Wii over Sony's high-tech PlayStation 3? It was August 2008 and Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Two-Sided Platforms; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry; Video Game Industry

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