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- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
the faster, smoother, more responsive, cross-functional process design that characterized Michael Hammer’s and James Champy’s pathbreaking work in the early 1990s. However, one could also make the argument that middle managers have the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
including cars and refrigerators. It has projects in development with GM's OnStar and in cloud computing. In addition, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam sees small "pots of gold" everywhere in the business, even in the traditional landline side, preaching View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
about side effects and a rushed vaccine approval process as the main inhibiting factors. Innovators can play a key role in influencing early adopters by addressing their uncertainties. Similarly, innovators and early adopters can go on to... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
leverage content from customers’ product reviews to identify their future needs. But here the human analysts are key players. They must review the selected content and formulate customer needs, because natural language processing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online
happy to provide our tax ID and bank account information to facilitate payments from organizations sponsoring your enrollment. However, we cannot provide specialized information or complete paperwork as part of a vendor setup process for... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals
degrees that are popular in the private sector combines a significant list of career options that the typical transitioning veteran seeks to preserve through the transition process pending a final decision about what path to take. ... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
capturing an audience of 56 million viewers. A 60 second spot cost $85,000. Advertisers were hooked from the start. Fast forward to 2019 and the Super Bowl is still one of the most watched events at major network television, but now,... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
Is there something satisfying and memorable in the experience that will make them want to return?" Jennifer M. Koen (HBS MBA '97), director of innovation for Godiva Chocolatier, explains that Godiva is in the process of a top-down... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
industry. Their story provides a real-life documentation of the paths to competitive success and failure worldwide in high-tech industries. Almost nothing has been written about the process that led to this achievement. The books written... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
News Sustainability and Business Models Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Her dissertation research at HBS examined institutional leadership, organizational change, and the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
the country have different cost structures and regulatory requirements when it comes to waste reduction, diversion, and disposal,” he says. “It doesn’t make sense for us to build a $50 million recycling facility in a market where there’s... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
administrative/political (laws, trading blocs, colonial ties, currency, etc.), geographic (physical distance, lack of land border, time zones, climates, etc.), and economic (income levels, cost of natural resources, financial resources,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
processes in Web 2.0 that we had in 1.0," says Avery. "To be successful we have to be timely and current and pick up on the conversations unfolding around us. We can't do that if we have a big bureaucracy slowing us down and a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
better focus on creating economic value by minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency. Companies can bring social value into alignment with their core competencies, improving motivation, loyalty, skill development, and even product... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
always lead to the benefits the organizations had anticipated. For example, many organizations anticipated that fundraising would be easier once they were larger. In fact, fundraising did not necessarily become easier with organizational growth, yet significant new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
organizational behavior. "I love the intellectual hunt behind research," he says. "It's a process of trying to understand elements that initially don't seem to have any relation to one another. When they come together, it's a big... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer value. We will revisit some of their most consequential... View Details
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Research
The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details