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- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details
- Career Coach
Ellen Harris
that may not be readily obvious. Her background in advertising and marketing, and subsequently Organizational Behavior and Development/Facilitation/Consulting, shaped her belief that students and alumni generally have a good idea of their... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise
- 26 May 2015
- Blog Post
5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn
Q&A session. One of my favorite case protagonist visits was in the first semester Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) course. My professor wrote a case about Mr. Jean-Claude Biver and the Swiss luxury watch industry, and... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
in which it is carried out. Joe Schmid observed that "both medical doctors and organizational managers work in cultures that are historically problem definition poor and solution rich. Their individual rewards systems are both driven... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
maximum load for 10 seconds, it moves on to dynamic testing. In dynamic testing, the blade is cycled along a single axis while the end is fixed to a large concrete structure that extends far into the ground. The blade is View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing management... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Education. “While the corporation’s internal practices greatly impact the environment, H&M believes that 26% of the greenhouse gas emissions in a garment’s life cycle [occur] after the product is sold to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Cast of Characters
new Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, Chu brings a modern sensibility to the DC Comics seductress: “I thought it was time to update her as a smart scientist with more powers, character complexity, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
broader friends and family, who collectively deserve the credit for getting me to this point in my life and career. Professionally, it is a team award for the various folks I work with at TPG Capital, who make showing up to work every day... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
relatively benign forms, such as small acts of nonconformity. But it can also emerge more brutally and with quite dysfunctional consequences. Without meaning, individuals tend to become rigid and hollow. Society itself seems shallow and lifeless. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
the one I remember most vividly happened in Paul Lawrence's Human Behavior class. A distinguished expert in organizational behavior, Professor Lawrence was known for the intricacy of his blackboard diagrams. The idea of our game was to... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities:... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
Making Sense of Past and Present
Throughout my life as a student, from elementary school to undergrad, I was fond of my history classes. I have always been fascinated by how past events shape our present. I read all of my history books in advance, even those of the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
stuff." In much more detail Pozen advises us on such things as creating and following standard routines so that part of our working life is on "automatic" as well as proactively managing the daily calendar in order to avoid... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
examine contemporary issues in securities law, private equity transactions and regulatory responses to complex financial instruments; Enhance understanding of the legal life cycle of a start-up including... View Details
- Career Coach
Sarah Bua
Executive Leadership Program - China (SELP-China), Owner President Manager Program (OPM) and Leading Change through Organizational Renewal (LCOR) executive education offerings. She has worked extensively with early-, mid-career and... View Details