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  • Mar 22 2018
  • Testimonial

Inside the Program for Leadership Development

  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

demands." In turn, they can talk to the functional managers who maintain oversight on the company's resources—its financial, human, or information assets—and who are able to see how those need to be View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • September 2010 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Windward Investment Management

By: Luis M. Viceira and Ricardo Alberto De Armas
Windward Investment Management has experienced rapid growth in assets under management in just ten years, from under $30 million at year-end 1999 to $3.6 billion in 2010. Windward is one of the leading firms in the Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) industry that... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Valuation; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 2016
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations

By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper offers a longitudinal and descriptive analysis of the strategies of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations
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  • Fall 2015
  • Article

Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Anna Kovner
This paper examines the investments and performance of community development venture capital (CDVC). We find substantial differences between CDVC and traditional venture capital (VC) investments: CDVC investments are far more likely to be in nonmetropolitan regions and... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Venture Capital
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  • 09 Feb 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

Developing Resilience on the Path to Becoming a CEO

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley; Information Technology; Technology
  • 1999
  • Chapter

Effective Oversight: A Guide for Nonprofit Directors?

By: R. E. Herzlinger
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes
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  • October 2023
  • Article

Finding New Business and Developing Relevant Sales Capabilities

By: Frank V. Cespedes
There are few alternatives to growth for most companies. It’s the rare firm whose goal involves getting smaller and, for employees, there is a strong correlation between their company’s growth rate, promotion opportunities, and job satisfaction. But a growth strategy... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Sales
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  • May 1997 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change

By: Joseph L. Bower
Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. This case provides historic and administrative background for the other two cases. Teradyne: The Aurora Project deals with the problems facing the head of a... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Change Management; Business or Company Management; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology
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  • September 2000
  • Background Note

Professional Services Module Five: Serving Clients Effectively

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
It is imperative for the internal systems and processes to be connected to the external processes of client management, competitive adaptation, and service delivery. View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Relationship Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Service Delivery; Performance Effectiveness; Adaptation; Competitive Strategy
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  • October 2024
  • Case

Grain Management

By: Archie Jones, Michael Norris, Alliyah Gary and Chelsea Grain-Jefferson
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Management Succession; Ownership Stake; Retirement; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 24 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior

By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions
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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

develop a body of knowledge and theory comparable to those of the true professions, management differs from these other occupations in lacking a set of institutions designed to certify that its practitioners... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • Teaching Interest

Technology and Operations Management

By: Christina R. Wing

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as... View Details

  • Winter 2011
  • Article

Developing Good Measures to Advance Management Accounting and Control Research: A Discussion of 'Corporate Frugality: Theory, Measurement and Practice'

By: Tatiana Sandino
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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies

expertise with HBS alumni by leading a job counseling workshop, titled On Effective Job Search Strategies, to Boston-area graduates and at reunions. “Neil’s insights are time-tested, his advice is unique, and his words of wisdom are... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

Tips on Holding Effective Company Recruiting Events

additional questions or with whom you’ve made a connection. 4. Include a brief description of your event format in our recruiting platform so students can prepare. Talk to your HBS recruiting manager if you have any questions about making... View Details
Keywords: All Industries