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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference The Most Engaging, Interactive Way to Master Business Essentials Get hands-on practice interpreting Analytics... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

simply buy and resell products; they generally do not have to solve a chicken-and-egg problem at any moment. With that caveat in mind, I think that understanding the fundamental functions multi-sided... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

19 Jan 2024
News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

But while there's a danger of moving too fast, Morriss tells me, there's also a serious opportunity cost of moving without enough speed. Her new book, Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems,... View Details

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

build a literature more effectively than they could with less diverse approaches to gathering data. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51015 April 29, 2016 Science The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling By:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Jun 2020
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What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

in Boston. [Image: jetcityimage] Related Reading Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems Helping Low-Income Families... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal claims—including tentpoles punctuating... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

of these areas and has to decide how to manage those implications. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808116 Solving a Problem or Sounding the Alarm?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

little or nothing for principals, whose leadership of schools could be unleashed to make giant strides in excellence. She called her idea Principals Connect. She would match principals who were seeking help finding resources or solving... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2003
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Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

Established companies historically have struggled when trying to create new markets. Success seems fleeting and unpredictable. Recent research indicates these problems are systemic. Most companies that are started fail. Of those that... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

15 Oct 2001
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What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

attributed his success to "diversity in counsel, unity in command." Two Approaches to Decision Making Advocacy Inquiry Concept of decision making a contest collaborative problem solving Purpose of... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

09 Jan 2020
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Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

reshaping competition? Marco Iansiti: For the first time in many years, there’s a fundamentally different way of solving the problem of meeting a customer’s needs. Airbnb is a classic example. If I want a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2010
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John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

into a forest of complexity where nearly anyone can become lost. Statistics can be powerful weapons, used not to clarify but to bewilder. "You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just look... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

ecosystem to demystify what capital markets are doing. The key to understanding these varied players is to first understand that financial markets are trying to solve the deep underlying problem of modern... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

scaling up its capabilities to make decisions and solve problems in other areas of the business, such as marketing, store sales, and the supply chain. But when the time was right, this data-analytic approach... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments of right and wrong. While emotions inform judgment across... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

on sabbatical from MIT. As a general manager, he was responsible for organizations ranging from start-ups to international, multi-plant businesses. As an individual contributor, he was best known for his work on product development/ sales management View Details

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

to solve that problem? Have we got the right formula? And then scale it, turn it into real business. And they're completely different because the context in which they're doing it is in some respects harder, and in some respects easier.... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

10 May 2010
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What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

gaining ground because we're experiencing a contextual change. Given the profound challenges we face as a global society and the challenges we confront as an institution, it's not just that we don't have solutions: We increasingly see that these View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

07 Jul 2011
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So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

that evidence "implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy," that "whether we like it or not, trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

Credential Certificate Courses (3) Business Analytics Professor Janice Hammond Unlock actionable insights by mastering data analysis techniques to solve real-world business challenges and drive informed decision-making. 8 weeks, 5... View Details

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