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  • 2021
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services

By: Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain and Yunhan Xu
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least... View Details
Keywords: Domain Name System; Resilience; Entropy; Internet and the Web; Infrastructure; Performance Effectiveness; Safety; Cybersecurity
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Bates, Samantha, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain, and Yunhan Xu. "Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1 (2021).
  • August 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 2: Building a Successful Strategy

By: Robert Simons
This module reading describes the basics of building a successful strategy. Topics in this module include a discussion of the distinction between corporate and business strategy; how to conduct a SWOT analysis of market dynamics and internal capabilities; the use of... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Business Strategy; Five Forces; Distinctive Capabilities; Emergent Strategy; Mission Statements; Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Competitive Advantage
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Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 2: Building a Successful Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-102, August 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
  • 2003
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BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact

By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This article describes preliminary results and ongoing challenges faced by Designworks/USA, an industrial design subsidiary of BMW Group, in its sustainability management efforts since it implemented the world's first certified Sustainability Management System (SMS).... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Auto Industry
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Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 3 (2003).
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (10) Leadership Principles Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Learn to bring out the best in others by applying and adapting your leadership style and managing the conditions that drive team performance. 6... View Details

    Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?

    In the latest paper for the Initiative on 21st Century Capitalism, Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna, professors at Harvard, look to business leaders to ask the important question: Do managers have a role to play in sustaining free and fair capitalism? The... View Details
    • 23 Sep 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability

    Keywords: by Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton & Zvi Bodie
    • June 2010
    • Teaching Note

    Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System (TN)

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Marlo Goetting
    Teaching Note for 409062. View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; System; Business Units; Corporate Strategy; Infrastructure; Growth and Development; Decision Making; Restructuring; Resource Allocation; Information Technology Industry
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    Gulati, Ranjay, and Marlo Goetting. "Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 410-126, June 2010.
    • 20 Jul 2017
    • News

    The Looming Threat That Could Decimate Wall Street's Fund Managers

    • May 2021
    • Article

    Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being

    By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel
    The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Health Industry
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    Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Christine K. Cassel. "Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being." Academic Medicine 96, no. 5 (May 2021).
    • 29 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

    If you don't know where you're going, any map will do.1 This conventional wisdom sounds right to many managers. It highlights the safety of having a clear objective for your management actions. It implies that all View Details
    Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
    • 2015
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    The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
    Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Leading Change; Management Systems
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    Hoffman, Andrew J., and John Ehrenfeld. "The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene." Chap. 13 in Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness, edited by Susan Albers Mohrman, James O'Toole, and Edward E. Lawler, 228–246. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2015.
    • May 1997
    • Teaching Note

    Module Overview: Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains: Matching Supply and Demand TN

    By: Ananth Raman
    Prepares students to configure operating and distribution systems to provide product (or service) supply to match customer demand. Begins by introducing students to the supply-demand mismatch problem, documenting its significance in many companies, and suggesting ways... View Details
    Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Working Capital; Distribution; Cost of Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry
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    Raman, Ananth. "Module Overview: Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains: Matching Supply and Demand TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-126, May 1997.
    • 15 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

    I led on family business management in Santiago in 1999. I've worked with their family business system ever since. Nelson, then CEO of RBS and also leader of his family branch, attended the seminar to... View Details
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    Managing Human Capital: Keeping Hope Alive in Organizations (Not offered 2013-2014)

    Managing Human Capital has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the general manager who seeks to manage both other people and his or her own career with optimal effectiveness. Any and all students who believe they will need to effectively manage... View Details

    • May 2017
    • Supplement

    ATH Technologies (B)

    By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
    Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Performance Management; Balancing Innovation And Control; Management Systems; Performance; Health Industry
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    Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-014, May 2017.
    • 01 Dec 1986
    • Conference Presentation

    A Group Decision Support System for Idea Generation and Issue Analysis in Organization Planning

    By: L. M. Applegate, B. R. Konsynski and J. F. Nunamaker
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Planning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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    Applegate, L. M., B. R. Konsynski, and J. F. Nunamaker. "A Group Decision Support System for Idea Generation and Issue Analysis in Organization Planning." Paper presented at the Conference on Cooperative Work, December 01, 1986.
    • August 1994 (Revised May 1997)
    • Case

    Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (A): Cost Management for Short Life Cycle Products

    Explores Olympus Optical's strategic response to major losses in its camera business. Key to Olympus's recovery were its extensive product planning process, a quality improvement program, and an aggressive cost-reduction program. In particular, the case details... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Product Design; Business Strategy; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry
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    Cooper, Robin. "Olympus Optical Company, Ltd. (A): Cost Management for Short Life Cycle Products." Harvard Business School Case 195-072, August 1994. (Revised May 1997.)
    • Article

    Navy Medicine Introduces Value-Based Health Care

    By: Alee Hernandez, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, C. Forrest Faison III and Michael E. Porter
    In 2016 the newly appointed surgeon general of the Navy launched a value-based health care pilot project at Naval Hospital Jacksonville to explore whether multidisciplinary care teams (known as integrated practice units, or IPUs) and measurement of outcomes could... View Details
    Keywords: Military Health System; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Projects
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    Hernandez, Alee, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, C. Forrest Faison III, and Michael E. Porter. "Navy Medicine Introduces Value-Based Health Care." Health Affairs 38, no. 8 (August 2019): 1393–1400.
    • 14 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

    and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman... View Details
    • January 2013 (Revised March 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    Luotang Power: Variances Explained (Brief Case)

    By: Robert Simons and Craig Chapman
    The primary objective is to explore the concepts of variance analysis in performance from one year to the next and the predictability of contracting counterparts to extract value from contract positions where they can. The general manager of a coal-fired power plant... View Details
    Keywords: Variance Analysis; Strategy And Execution; Profitability Analysis; Management Control Systems; Contracts; Valuation; Energy Generation; Accounting; Performance Evaluation; China
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    Simons, Robert, and Craig Chapman. "Luotang Power: Variances Explained (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 913-534, January 2013. (Revised March 2017.)
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