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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

own schedule, there are deadlines to ensure you’re progressing through the course in step with your peers and taking full advantage of all networking and social learning opportunities. To earn a Certificate of Completion, you must... View Details

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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

helps leading universities and nonprofits develop a strategic focus and deliver more value to the people and communities they serve. Strategy for Non-Profits The Museum Value Chain Choosing how to perform and integrate these activities determines how much View Details

January 1996
Background Note

Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity

February 2011
Case

Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell

Reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The case profiles her leadership style and... View Details

Keywords: Working Conditions; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Gender; Power and Influence

April 2008
Case

TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial

By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong

TerraCog, a successful privately held high-tech firm that develops GPS (global positioning system) and similar products for consumer markets, has recently been caught off-guard by a competitor's new product that makes novel use of satellite imagery. When TerraCog... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Decision Making; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Information Technology; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Technology Industry

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

price-based moves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55474 in press Journal of Experimental Social Psychology A Counterfeit Competence: After Threat, Cheating Boosts One's Self-Image By: Wakeman W., C.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

as joint degree students, sharing insights from their time before and during the MBA program. Swanee Golden (MBA/MPP 2025) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Princeton, New Jersey. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before HBS, I worked on Google’s View Details

February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
Case

Microsoft Latin America

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Alberto Ballve and Antonio Davila

Mauricio Santillan, regional vice president for the Latin American division of Microsoft, has introduced a new performance measurement system to help his country managers formulate and control strategy. Microsoft Latin America's priorities are rolling out of an... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Applications and Software; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Motivation and Incentives; Management Skills; Global Strategy; Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Latin America

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

(MBA/MPP 2017) and Taniel Chan (MBA/MPP 2017) are invested in understanding how social change can be driven through public-private partnerships. Being the tremendous multi-taskers they are, they’re also eager to help prospective students... View Details

October 2011
Case

Chris and Alison Weston (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Celia Moore

Chris and Alison Weston describe how they, a well-educated middle class couple, ended up committing mail fraud, for which they each served a year and a half in federal prison. The case highlights for students how otherwise upstanding individuals much like themselves... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Conflict of Interests; Value

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the... View Details

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

released On Competition, Porter collects his most influential articles from HBR, and adds new work on health care, philanthropy, social responsibility, and leadership. This excerpt, coauthored with Harvard Business School professors Jay... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

March 2011
Article

Zoom In, Zoom Out

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Zoom buttons on digital devices let us examine images from many viewpoints. They also provide an apt metaphor for modes of strategic thinking. Some people prefer to see things up close, others from afar. Both perspectives have virtues. But they should not be fixed... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Cognition and Thinking; Perspective; Leadership; Opportunities; Decisions

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