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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage reimbursement and payment challenges... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

mistaken idea that you can actually find ultimate satisfaction through success. Happiness science helps people break that cycle because it helps them to understand the nature of true satisfaction—how to get it and what true rewards should... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog

it addresses the notion of “renovation” of the product line over time. We seek out to understand how to successfully manage and sustain a company and the product life cycle over time for long-term success.... View Details

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In Charts: Like Einstein, Global Inventors Bring Big Ideas Across Borders | Working Knowledge

They’re highly productive and tend to become a field’s “superstars,” exerting growing influence. “As such, they are among the few inventors able to transfer knowledge across borders, sharing it with locals, and pioneer the development of new technological View Details

01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question

It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

on the individual level, or on tracing a line from the macro to the micro level, Higgins is taking a separate yet complementary path for exploration: examining large-scale organizational dynamics from the direction of individuals'... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

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Anthony Martore

a time-constrained environment. This exercise was memorable because real world events often vary from strategic plans, and the step of evaluating all elements of a process, from the throughput unit numbers to organizational culture and... View Details

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

We have written about how top NFL coaches try to stay relevant over time. Our empirical evidence supports the idea that most organizational leaders see a decline in performance as they get more tenured, but some are immune to this... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

07 Aug 2012
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PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2011
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PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited by D. Teece and M. Augier. London: Palgrave,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

comprehensive field-based case study of the entire life history of a company, identity is found to be an important inertial force that operates in two ways. First, identity serves as a filter, such that View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

a context of rapid product proliferation, short product life cycles, and global networks of suppliers and customers. Hence, topics not examined in RC TOM such as inventory management, distribution economics, and demand forecasting are... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Stem Cell Man

Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details

Keywords: biology; stem cell science; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Hunter Goble

Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “It was an incredible experience,” says Hunter. “Being in DC is like being in Hollywood, but with people doing important work shaping the daily life of the American people.” Yet Hunter grew frustrated... View Details

10 Dec 2020
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A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

broadly it's about the communities we've grown up in and this sense that there's an unbelievable untapped potential. We think there's something we should be doing about that.” The MBA degree is not common in the Latinx culture, says Curiel, which results in a... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

importance of organizational behavior and human resource issues. "That's the toughest part of the business," he said. "The bad hires and arguments are what get me in the pit of my stomach." Otherwise, he continued, the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

largest yoga and health retreat center in the country," says the amiable and spirited Bothwick, an expert in organizational development who assumed her position in March. Since its inception as a small yoga retreat in Pennsylvania in the... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

along with other very thoughtful responses, suggest a wide divergence of views on the role of the board in the life cycle of a corporate entity. Interestingly, those who teach corporate law suggest that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007

the vicious cycle of poverty, and/or how aid can be used effectively. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707029 Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B) Harvard... View Details