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20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

establish a small physical footprint with six global research centers, but together they have greatly expanded the School's intellectual footprint, multiplying its impact on management education, explained Nohria. Last year for the first... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

22 Mar 2010
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One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

adapt, despite the intentions of senior management. The structures, processes, and behaviors defined in the book are designed to break inertia, and maintain strategic alignment in times of change. Q: To plan or not to plan? Your own View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

effectively, fulfilling those responsibilities, in a complex situation. Decisions facing the company include how to sustain credible research on the drug's efficacy and safety, how to increase manufacturing capacity to meet expected... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

established companies can also be a source of salvation: disruptive change. Applegate should know. Her current research and teaching focus on the challenges of building new ventures and leading radical business innovation in the face of... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

turnaround—form the basis for a terrific debate on the importance of brand and location, according to Jeffrey Fear, an associate professor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The two resulting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

altered focus has been the key to success of current discount voucher services. Q: Do you have any plans to continue researching this subject? A: Absolutely. We're currently talking to merchants that have used discount voucher services,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Forces. He had at his disposal a large part of the $600-plus billion Department of Defense budget and some of the most inventive people at DARPA, the DoD’s research arm, and other places. And yet he still began a startup outside the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

development. We then develop a contingency framework for measuring results, suggesting that some organizations should measure long-term impacts, while others should focus on shorter-term outputs and outcomes. In closing, we discuss the implications of our analysis for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

analyzed on a case-by-case basis in order to account for the unique characteristics of every business, corporations turned elsewhere to satisfy their craving for standardized approaches to strategy making.18 A study by the Stanford View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

research model, we go out in the field to develop and test hypotheses about the managerial challenges identified and shared by the nine PELP districts, write cases and notes that are relevant to addressing the challenges, and then deliver... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

conference rooms all across our country. And they also will need to come from classrooms and research seminars in the country's business schools. Thus I think we have a responsibility to participate and be involved in this process. So let... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

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