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- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
Asian beliefs, philosophies, and practices are influencing everything from the way we treat the ill to how we make cars. Now, a Harvard Business School professor is looking to the East as a model for developing strong business leaders.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Xue (Ken) Yuan
combine textbook knowledge with real-life experience. The way they command the classroom, facilitate discussions, ask questions – they get us to think about things we wouldn’t have considered otherwise.” For Xue, the entire school... View Details
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Pranav Kothari
options, I'm thinking about not just helping myself, but what I can do for others." Speaking engagements and trips enrich Pranav's education. "Every day, there are usually two or three executives or entrepreneurs on campus. They add an element of View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
exciting new initiatives that have the potential to reshape management practice and the very role of business in society. We began the academic year focused on welcoming our entire community back to campus. The vagaries of COVID-19... View Details
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Arielle Rothman | MBA
reduced by new technologies, including continuous glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Her experience fostered my passion for creating medical technologies. I hope to apply my knowledge from this fellowship to translate technologies from... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Section 404, which will become common knowledge from Wall Street to Main Street, as well as rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in recent years. This is not an issue of interest only to those of us in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
geographically or encounter changing tasks. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how organizational knowledge resources can improve knowledge workers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
are discovering, articulating, and institutionalizing the management practices that will keep companies innovative and entrepreneurial in the new millennium. While I cannot possibly list all the presentations, I hope the following samples... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model, which tolerates moral complexity, may be one of the few that can adapt and endure. Faculty Research HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking... View Details
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Black History Month | Baker Library
1968 to 1972 Working Knowledge HBS Working Knowledge distills the latest faculty research into practical insights for leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents. Stay up-to-date... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
"What's not to like about an enjoyable service environment and knowledgeable employees? But they aren't always the key to profits," Ton says. "My findings suggest that for retailers that sell undifferentiated products, offer a... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
find more violations initially because the factory would have less time to sweep things under the rug, Toffel cautions that “an unannounced audit might also create a more contentious environment where factory management might not be so receptive to hearing any best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School
Courses (IFC). Good investing and corporate management requires contextual knowledge and an ability to differentiate among opportunities worldwide – I now feel much more prepared to operate with a truly global perspective. I also feel... View Details
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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog
seeking to advance their knowledge of general management, strategy, succession, and governance issues in the context of a challenging and sometimes emotionally driven work environment. Educational Objectives Learning how to work in or run... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
today's global economy, knowledge and other resources critical to innovation may lie far outside a company's home territory. This distance makes it harder to obtain and integrate these resources, eating away at a firm's competitive edge.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why Manufacturing Matters - HBS Working Knowledge Making Their Way James McNerney Jr. After decades of... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
a lot of tacit knowledge that required a lot of experience and practice to perfect and made it routine and predictable. Production tools have always incorporated some amount of knowledge; that is the very... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
first place), then what we do is to give them some tools and techniques to improve their odds of success. RH: We can't guarantee that every HBS graduate is going to be a great entrepreneur, but we can teach a body of knowledge that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
emerging market entities as imitators. (Cases of bio-piracy indicate the opposite.) From a practical perspective, they wanted to suss out factors that might thwart bio-piracy altogether. In a series of new papers, the researchers trace a... View Details