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July – August 2009
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Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance

By: Sebastian Raisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman

Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues that are fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through... View Details

Keywords: Change; Innovation and Invention; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Research; Integration

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01 Mar 2012
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1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners

excursions were Module 2 of the new, yearlong required FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course, which is designed to hone student skills in leadership, global understanding, and View Details

Keywords: Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Multimedia Development | Information Technology

standalone multimedia case studies comprised of videos, exhibits, and interactive elements integrated with case text. We also produce web-based case supplements with videos and electronic exhibits to accompany written cases and video... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

technologies, services, and products available through the ecosystem. In doing this, niche strategies trade off risk with productivity. Strong economies can often be found by niche players by leveraging a single platform—for example, NVIDIA can optimize its View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog

course Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO, course #1416), students can only take one of the three. SVC-S is an abridged version of the spring course Strategies for Value Creation (SVC, course #1417) that is designed... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

HBS and the Kennedy School of Government have announced the creation of an integrated joint-degree program, the first of its kind. Its mission is to develop outstanding leaders who are skilled in both managing complex organizations and... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; Management

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MD/MBA | MBA

the core science and clinical disciplines of medicine. Further, the MD/MBA is designed as an integrated curriculum, rather than simply a sequence of MBA classes added to the standard medical education.... View Details

17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

relationship, greater partner integration is associated with higher costs, but not with higher product quality. Our results shed light on the subtle interplay between formal and relational contracting. They have important implications for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1998
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service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) Cost & Effect: Using View Details

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Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) - Course Catalog

equity, venture capital, or hedge fund investors seeking to gain a better understanding of what creates value and why. Educational Objectives SVC is a capstone course that integrates and further develops concepts developed in RC Courses... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

collaborative efforts across Harvard to integrate learning and leverage the University’s impact. Summer 2017 marked the seventh year for PRIMO, which was designed to develop research and writing skills,... View Details

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

need to integrate and what do I need to integrate so that we can provide these experiences to get the job done? And that tells me how I get the customer, not just what I need to do, but how to do it, as I... View Details

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The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win

By: Robert Simons

As business leaders worry about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools; Purpose Of Business Schools; Management Education; Business School Curriculum; Strategy Execution; U.S. Competitiveness; Capitalism; Management Profession; Innovation; Competing To Win; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Design; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management

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14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

managers responsible for stewarding brands. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138786837/ April 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
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When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

comments concerning the issue of appropriate starting points for dealing with an organization’s lagging performance. There was little support for an approach that first addresses an organization’s culture, “how we do things around here.” But Rick Mayhall commented that... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

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Teaching Support for HBS Faculty | Baker Library

Teaching Support for HBS Faculty We work with faculty to enhance the student learning experience in the classroom and help students with course assignments and independent projects. Baker Library works with faculty who are designing or... View Details

03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

clinical leadership responsibilities. The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to make the case for the need to refocus residency education around the development of outstanding "frontline" clinical leaders and, second, to provide an evidence-based... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

What are some of the new "star" technologies and how can the average business integrate them in order to conduct low-cost, rapid testing? We need to appreciate that new knowledge comes as much from failure as it does from... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

ideas to the next level,” notes Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the program and the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Through courses in business and engineering, as well as specially designed View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

such far-flung but tightly integrated subsidiaries? How do you ensure that financial reporting is effective while simultaneously optimizing your tax position? How do you design compensation systems that... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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