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Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog

we will analyze case-length biographies to understand the choices these high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they followed. Our aim will be to develop principles and frameworks to explain and predict their success.... View Details

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

reflected both home country subsidies for wind energy and strong local content policies, while successful firms pursued successful strategies to acquire technologies and develop their own capabilities. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 1990 (Revised February 1990)
Teaching Note

Sedalia Revisited, Teaching Note

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Teaching Note for (9-687-004). View Details

Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Design; Quality; System; Employees; Framework; Competition; Production; Strategy

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

and Netflix, are also among the most shorted stocks as investors struggle to see their long-term potential. To understand why and how this might occur, the overarching framework applied throughout this course covers “The Complete View Details

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Eryn Schultz

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I decided to apply to business school because I wanted to pivot away from strategy consulting and move into an operations focused role at a mission-oriented organization. While I had... View Details

Keywords: Services; Consumer Products

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Curriculum | MBA

Technology and Operations Management Leadership & Organizational Behavior Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty Spring Term Business, Government, and the International Economy Finance II Strategy Leadership and Corporate... View Details

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

of digital technology that can help leaders achieve their strategic priorities. It’s vital for managers to engage with some of the basics of computer science because “they give people a framework to think about the direction that... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

successful platform business. Participants explore platforms’ unique properties, opportunities, and risks and learn how to develop scalable strategies that deliver a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Related Programs... View Details

30 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)

Al Gore stated nearly 20 years ago, these facts remain “Inconvenient”. 2. We Have Solutions, a Roadmap and Plenty of Opportunity - there exist a significant number of frameworks, solutions, strategies and motivating examples that can... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business

tailored to the needs of a management team. Participants can explore issues related to their company in private online, applying Christensen’s theories and frameworks to find solutions to strategic questions posed by their executive... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Breakthrough International Negotiation

negotiation, not the least of which is the corporate arena. "Brokering a deal requires the same ability to assess complex situations and craft breakthrough strategies as brokering a peace agreement," says Watkins. "Leaders of companies... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

Marketing Input and Innovation Strategy Harvard Business School Note 508-090 This note develops a framework for considering the challenges of incorporating marketing input when setting innovation strategy.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2011
Teaching Note

Bridging the GAAPs (TN)

By: Gwen Yu

Teaching Note for 111-114. View Details

Keywords: Equity; Financial Reporting; Investment Portfolio; Valuation; Framework; Adoption; Standards; Globalization

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17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm's realized strategy. We find that in simple competitive situations... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

all sorts of elements of the digital marketplace that our existing legal frameworks are not particularly well-suited to deal with.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

illustrated in Figure 2.1 is a framework for developing hybrid strategies: strategies both for identifying and playing key games and for shaping the rules. The term hybrid emphasizes the need for businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

“Reimaging Capitalism” into practice by helping funds build investing strategies and philosophy around how they evaluate potential investments via a series of ESG ratings. I’m currently organizing a teach-in for the company management to... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

endeavor, McCraw and Koehn recall with a shared laugh. "We had endless debates with our colleagues inside and outside our unit about how the course should be structured and which countries should be chosen for inclusion," McCraw notes. Indeed, settling on the course's... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

paper develops a framework that attempts to connect firms’ capability search strategies with their strategies in product markets. It frames firms’ capability search View Details