• 11 Feb 2020
• Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

is superior, but because the end-to-end product  is better. Focusing on serving your customers’ end users should be baked into the team’s DNA. In most cases, you are building more than the ML product, so collaboration and coordination is... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

• 22 Feb 2021
• Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

only have to use more data in their selling activities, but there's more cross-functional coordination required. "Improving sales productivity ... affects growth, civic discourse, and the lives of millions of people." If a buyer has a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

• 10 Apr 2023
• News

Leading the Way

Be A Leader helps them connect to college tutoring services, provides internship and career planning, and offers monthly check-ins with a college success coordinator all the way to graduation. "The kids we work with are similar to me,"... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

• 27 Jun 2019
• Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

Working Knowledge. Ailyn Pestana, junior designer and photo coordinator at Harvard Business School, created the charts above. Image: svetikd Related Reading Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril Why Business Should Support Employees Who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

• 06 Feb 2023
• Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

the courage of the A&T four, who started the sit-in movement in the 1960s across the nation with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), I chose to attend an HBCU because of the rich history, legacy, and impact on the... View Details

• 10 Nov 2003
• Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

procurement and manufacturing) where arbitrage economies were being pursued. What's more, it was able to coordinate its widely dispersed operations by applying centrally developed learning templates. In particular, Immelt applied the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

• 26 Nov 2001
• Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

companies have budgets in the first place is to help coordinate the disparate parts of their businesses. By openly sharing accurate information and basing decisions on a common set of numbers, the thinking goes, you ensure harmonious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

• Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Reengineering Record high employment Service sector outpaces manufacturing in new job creation Influence: Low 1900 s 19 U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 War Industries Board coordinates activities... View Details

• Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Negro College Fund, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the NAACP. Benjamin Tanner Johnson HBS MBA 1921 Princeton, NJ Howard University, 1919 Benjamin Tanner Johnson was a tireless champion for African American-owned... View Details

• 29 Nov 2023
• News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

is the club’s main fundraiser for the scholarships, Chen has been working with a volunteer committee of alumni including Sheila Sun (MBA 2013), the club’s VP of Events; Shari Gibbons (MBA 1990), Coordinator of the HBSASC Scholarship Fund;... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

• 15 Oct 2007
• Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 10 Oct 2011
• Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

productivity would improve—especially as the bricks-and-clicks retail model worked in an increasingly coordinated manner to offer the consumer a seamless shopping experience. The Internet Threat While recent retail sales figures seem to... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

• Research Summary

Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

• Research Summary

Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details

• 16 Aug 2004
• Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

ongoing assessment of the appropriate balance between a product's form and function and how that fits with the way people live today. In the past, she notes, it was de rigueur to set a table with coordinated china, flatware, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products