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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

and external clients. Clare joined the Center in 2005 as Coordinator and has also worked as a Faculty Assistant here at the Business School. Before HBS, Clare was an Advertising Associate Producer, producing television and radio... View Details

13 Feb 2014
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Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

system, there are usually deputy leaders that lead the different parts of the system in close coordination with the ultimate leader. This was the case for the RBS system. Leading Besides developing, supporting, and participating in the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

08 Sep 2014
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The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

organization (e.g., a customer service rep moved to a sales position because internal cross-functional coordination is an important sales task and the rep "knows the people and how to get things done here") A geography or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2014
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Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

09 Apr 2007
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Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

coordination that resulted in their developing self-regulation programs were sparked by crises, including the chemical industry after the Bhopal accident and the nuclear power industry after the Three Mile Island incident. We also... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

existing members Plan professional and social events, virtual and in-person Partner with HBS on strategy, growth, and initiatives Regional Leadership Contact List Facilitator Each Circle needs one to two volunteer facilitators who help View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

variety of practitioners makes it difficult for civilians to know where to turn. And the cluster of nonprofits and NGOs offering services that have sprung up since the 2014 invasion are not able to coordinate in an effective way. What’s... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

2015
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"Level II" Negotiation Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

By: James K. Sebenius

Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the internal conflicts and constituencies on his or her own side. Far less familiar are the many valuable... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal

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February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
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Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

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27 Sep 2016
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Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

response services by connecting customers’ distributed energy resource assets (DERs) to every wholesale electricity market in North America. The Product Partnerships team is responsible for conducting market research for partnership opportunities, View Details

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Financial reporting quality and its consequences

Does reporting quality have real economic consequences? Professor Yu addresses this question in her research, which examines the channels through which reporting quality affects the behavior of economic agents, namely managers and investors. Her particular focus is... View Details

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

project coordinator role just weeks after finishing the course, so I've had the chance to apply many of the topics covered. Aranzazú Martínez Galeana Senior Project Coordinator, Social Performance Division at ERM Read more learner stories... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

design and software engineering capabilities to enable faculty research, and administrative services to launch and run labs efficiently and to coordinate relationships with external partners. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS Harnessing... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

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with HUPD, local, state, and federal agencies to evaluate threat levels and to support events and campus activities in a coordinated way. While no credible threat has yet been identified, we are considering additional steps such as... View Details

08 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

“Leaders have to understand this. The major lesson for employers is there’s been a shift in our communication networks as a result of the pandemic, and that this shift has to shape future decisions about organizational design.” [Image: Unsplash/Mick Haupt] Related... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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