Systems Of Management Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Office of Education at USAID. Christensen's influential book was not about AIDS; it described companies that were well managed yet were blindsided by rapid advances from unexpected challengers. Yet HIV and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate View Details

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

backgrounds, could be sharing living space with limited private quiet areas, or managing multiple responsibilities including child or elder care. None of these factors impact how well a candidate could do... View Details

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

restrict the religious groups' acreage and make the roads even wider to control foot traffic—and land disputes-even more? What about expanding the festival site northward, thereby creating the equivalent of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

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How $40 Loans Lifted Lives in Kenya | Working Knowledge

control group of rejected applicants. Traveled to 9.4 percent more cities, suggesting boosted economic activity. Sent 27 percent more text messages, an indicator of social... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

regulatory, and quality control expertise. On average, the client eventually accepts only 15% of all new flavors for full market evaluation, and only 5% to 10% make their way to the marketplace. Meanwhile,... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

developed a database of the CEOs of the same companies to find out everything I could about them from a demographic and career management standpoint. What part View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

remained optimistic about the future, carving a path for himself and others despite the obstacles and racism all around him. He was the leader of leaders. His legacy fuels my work. —Deborah Blagg Back to top Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

venture capital and adapts them for established organizations, leveraging these two distinct skills as a form of management for building in a future that is uncertain. Faculty Books Disciples View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

at Harvard Business School who researches the evolution of peer-to-peer online platforms; and Andrei Hagiu, a visiting associate professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

a robust ecosystem with a mobile app that brings together all the participants in the marketplace and controls the entire ecosystem of vehicles, batteries and charging seamlessly. Green Science... View Details

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

history courses today. The first HBS course designed specifically to teach entrepreneurial management - The Management of New Enterprises - was introduced in 1947, one View Details

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

And so the manipulation of the alternatives was really straightforward. Q: What can managers and other professionals learn from this research when they find themselves in negotiations? A: I think the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

03 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series

managing family businesses to business-government relations. What are some key highlights or learnings about sustainability that you have gained over the course of this project – trends and inspirational... View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

18 Oct 2024
News

My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details

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