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31 Jan 2007
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When Good Teams Go Bad

What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

Many people began 2021 with optimism, hopeful that a COVID-19 vaccine would be widely available within months. Surely the pandemic would end soon, right? It was, perhaps, a naïve thought in a pandemic-weary world. Nevertheless, companies... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

June 2008 (Revised May 2017)
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Cook Composites and Polymers Co.

By: Deishin Lee, Michael W. Toffel and Rachel Gordon

This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its manufacturing process by developing a waste by-product into a new product. The case describes how CCP cleans production equipment between batches using styrene, which becomes a... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Business Processes; Performance Efficiency; Natural Environment; Wastes and Waste Processing; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

year; Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) during the January term; new cases in the RC and EC; and opportunities for independent projects. Moreover, the mapping we’ve done to understand what is being taught across different courses View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

30 Jun 2022
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Scaling Hope

psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and public health, so that he could best apply his experience to enhance an existing nonprofit’s work. In 2019, D’Antonio joined the national nonprofit Shatterproof as... View Details

05 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

to qualified students from Boys’ Town Home, a nonprofit organization serving orphans and disadvantaged youth in Singapore. “A lot of the world champions at Evolve began under the exact same circumstances of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Faculty Faculty Lynda M. Applegate Baker Foundation Professor Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal... View Details

08 Nov 2021
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New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

School. This will include serving as a key source of new research and curriculum content on a wide range of fields, including finance, technology, marketing, accounting and control, strategy, and entrepreneurship, to develop further insight into business challenges and... View Details

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Online Learning Model | HBS Online

Business School faculty and delivered via our innovative online platform designed to bring the HBS classroom to you. Wherever you are in your career—or the world—we can help you achieve your goals. View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

courses are completed successfully, learners will earn a Certificate of Specialization. HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in Leadership and Management , Strategy , Entrepreneurship and View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members of Section B, they had something... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

beginning to change. That same year, the US Department of Defense established the Defense Innovation Unit in Silicon Valley to encourage early-stage companies in the sector.... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

projects in New York, Chicago, and other major cities. He dismisses predictions that real-estate investment trusts and other industry innovations may spell the end for development entrepreneurs. "I've been... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

really want that kind of excitement, that’s what people are attracted by and that’s accepted. Creating a business, describing those innovations in an enthusiastic manner, and then having it fail because it... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Blog - Creating Emerging Markets

15 Feb 2023 Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis Maxim Pike Harrell 10 Apr 2023 Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural... View Details

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The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano

Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts

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Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy. It will also reshape capitalism and its relationship to society, and legitimize business again as a powerful... View Details

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

might be the wrong way to do things in an innovation economy. Instead, maybe managers have to do the hard work of putting the puzzle pieces together and inviting people to bring their entire selves to work.”... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

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