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Digital Innovation - Alumni

Transformation Leadership Donor or a Digital Data Design Leadership Donor —please contact Ellen Harkavy, Managing Director of Development, at eharkavy@hbs.edu or 617.495.6883. The HBS Fund Investors Society recognizes leadership annual... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

students plan more intentionally for the path ahead, navigate the bumps that arise, and stay true to their values, Perlow created a second-year course, Crafting Your Life: The Tactics and Practices of the First 10 Years Post-MBA. “What I want us to View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

collection of scientific volumes, and in the basements of a series of rented apartments, he devoted himself to the development of a synthetic light-polarizing material. "You want to be undisturbed. You want to be free to think not for an... View Details

June 2020
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RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia

In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada

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02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

to go in the future." Launched in autumn 2006, GMP is a new executive education comprehensive leadership program designed to address the needs and concerns of precisely these managers. GMP's innovative teaching philosophy and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2024
Blog Post

From Harvard to Miss New Jersey: A Journey of Perseverance and Self-Belief

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) is an educational program designed to increase opportunity in business education for high-potential college students making an impact in their school or community. We sat down with Erica... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

think of the role of advertising as providing primes that are psychological in nature as a means of persuasion, you can take something that exists in society—a consumer preference for fair skin—and leverage it for good or for bad.”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

05 Feb 2019
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The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

the fact that it is sustainable and eco-friendly, immediately struck a chord with her, and the idea to create a luxury brand was born! After two years of research and hard work, we officially launched MAYU in November 2018. “Fashion and View Details

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

brands, simplified pricing that replaces the retailer's constant sales and coupons, and an updated store design that promises to make one think more of Apple's high-touch emporiums than a typical department... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

they preach. Drawing inspiration from Edgar H. Schein's influential book Career Dynamics, DeLong suggested that managers should think about three levels of human behavior in organizations. The first is technical skills, be they in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

you just don’t have the same chance. In thinking about what we could do during our time at HBS to help level the playing field, we came up with these concepts as an independent project. We recognize that we are extremely privileged to be... View Details

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850 Certificate Design Thinking and Innovation Srikant Datar Leverage design View Details

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

executives on Wall Street. According to Chua, their research found that "people who were made to think about luxury prior to a decision-making task have a higher tendency to endorse self-interested decisions that might potentially... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

when they raised their hand, the point at which they stopped listening to what was being said by other students. Others posed counter-questions that are important to consider as well. For example, Aim suggested, "I think the right... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

the Digital World, Design Thinking and Innovation, Digital Marketing Strategy, and Winning with Digital Platforms—plus all peer learning activities and a capstone project. Participants must complete the... View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization

new ideas and gauge their effects is a game changer, revealing surprising insights that can lead to incremental changes that can have a cumulatively huge effect on business. After research that the checkout experience could be improved, for example, Booking’s View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Kiran Gandhi

Ideo, a leading innovation and design firm that I had never heard of before, and I was so inspired by design thinking methodology. So this summer, I’ll be one of sixteen HBS... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

proposed the idea of a low-cost quartz design that would compete in the market not on precision, but on fashion. SMH pursued the risky idea, but the project's young engineers, Elmar Mock and Jacque Muller, found themselves ostracized by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

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