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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can often be the best case View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
Video upload: Record yourself reacting to leadership scenarios 7-9 hrs Module 2 Leading Your Team Learn how to manage the conditions that drive team performance through team purpose, composition, processes, and launch. Highlights Yvonne... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients—and winning new business... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
cost of evacuations or be wider to ensure every possible scenario is taken into account. In business, that could mean weighing the cost of not having enough stock to meet demand versus carrying excess stock. “That’s a tradeoff, and the... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
innovation problem of your own choosing, or a provided scenario 6-7 hrs Module 3 Content Week - Ideate, Part 1: Tools for Generating Ideas Develop design principles to create user-focused ideas, experiment with ideation tools, and explore... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
adhering or not adhering. And reason it's so politicized So yes, this is not a political science discussion, but this has become a political scenario instead of a global health emergency that we need to manage. Frazier: Yes, we need... View Details
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
openly reveal their own interests from the get-go. The seller learns that the buyer plans to use the cottage only in the summer, and in the course of negotiation agrees to look after the property in the off-season. Here both sides win:... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
successes” because they deliver a venture to a well-resourced owner while mostly recouping backers’ investments. However, they’re not without complication: A startup’s founders might feel pressure to yield to the plans of an aligned... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
familiar manifestation of excess capacity," he explains, "is when market demand falls below the level required to yield returns that will support current production capacity. This is the 'demand-reduction' scenario commonly associated... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
than networking to make friends. (Gino, for instance, recalled colleagues using copious amounts of complimentary hand sanitizer after work-related dinners.) The team also posited that networking felt ickier when a meeting was planned... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Initiative evaluate the regulatory reforms since the financial crisis. The authors highlight several areas in which the reform agenda has made clear progress. These include heightened capital and liquidity requirements, more... View Details
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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
buzz groups, and class guests. Role Plays Role plays place students in character to approximate a first-hand experience. The instructor may decide to play one of the roles during the exchange. Role plays can be built into a teaching plan... View Details
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Embracing learning opportunities: Students' mistakes and non-standard approaches can provide powerful learning opportunities. Inquiring into process and application: Including questions and scenarios that challenge students to apply the... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
growth strategy. Highlights Ravish Naresh, Khatabook Founder Sarah Tavel, Benchmark General Partner Show Hide Details Concepts Khatabook Retaining the Users You Acquire Scaling Decisions Featured Exercises Describe the marketing funnel Apply startup playbooks under... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
vendors could disrupt supply chains, further hurting the business and destroying value. This potential problem is troubling to a number of bankruptcy scholars, including my colleague Mark Roe at Harvard Law School. So, is this bleak View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
like." Yet as car manufacturers, tech companies, and ride hailing services move forward with plans for deploying AVs, widespread deployment has been slow, primarily because AVs face a huge challenge: Many people are uneasy about... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
which is a really interesting incentive as well. But otherwise that they can actually pay the carbon cost themselves I think is super interesting. Because the ultimate best case scenario would be if carbon cost was baked into the economy... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change.... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
found valuable information from other sources. Firms with business partners or suppliers in China, for example, tried to distill the noisy signals emerging from these areas as quickly as possible to plan for safety in their plants. This... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
an email granting access to the course content within 2 hours . To maximize your 90-day access period, we strongly recommend logging into the course platform as soon as you receive this notification. If you plan to pay online using a... View Details