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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509024 Breaking through Action Plan Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059 The "Breaking Through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and quality levels were far below those of world-class competitors, the firms initiated... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
as a sales issue.” Planning and hiring To reap any of these benefits companies must develop links between the C-suite and the customer-facing side of the business. In his article, Cespedes offers two examples of how this can be done:... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Andrew Holmberg
Harvard rapidly became his top choice. “After creating actionable change,” he says, “I didn’t want to be a passive classroom observer again. I like the case method because it’s active.” Equally important, HBS facilitates deep interactions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Notes from W50
attendees reflected on the past and offered an action plan for the future, and the premiere screening of the documentary A Woman's Place, a project led by Professor Cynthia Montgomery that featured alumnae... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
improvements and concrete action plans that were designed to improve patient conversion and timelines, from diagnosis to treatment,” Leger explains. “The project led to fewer required patient visits, better... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
to preserve more than 20,000 jobs during the pandemic. The plan garnered more than $800 million in support from the IMF, the World Bank, and development finance institutions such as the African Development, the Islamic Development Bank,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax break (employer-sponsored health View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
continuously update plans and actions against rapidly shifting challenges. 1. Pierce the fog of war Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general and military theorist, coined the term "fog of war." He... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
for decisive actions that were initially unsuccessful. But she told us if she hadn't made the initial mistakes, she would never have discovered the things that led to the company's turnaround. It's a lesson I'll never forget."... View Details
- Profile
Luciana Baigun
FIELD curriculum. When I visited the campus, I saw a true commitment to make this a great place for people interested in entrepreneurship with a tech focus.” Bringing TEDx to HBS Just as she had done in Buenos Aires, Lu is taking action... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
For someone who considers himself an "idea guy," Bo Kemp distinguished himself as a man of action at HBS. Friendly, outgoing, and at ease with fellow students, faculty, and administrators alike, Kemp demonstrated a remarkable ability to... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
is by actions and words from senior leadership of the companies I've worked for.” Examples included the CEO of one company attending a retreat for the Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) and the CEO of another company participating in a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Profile
Limor Moshkovich
few years ago. I asked them how they arrived at their current positions and was able to relate their career paths to my own." Reflection and action HBS, Limor notes, "puts a lot of emphasis on exposing us to the world, to the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
psychology that accounts for behaviors inconsistent with ethical beliefs and describe how people reconcile their immoral actions with their ethical goals through the process of moral disengagement. We then examine how the mind selectively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace