Strategic Initiatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Mar 2016
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New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad

range of strategic projects, including HBX, where Losee helped launch and set strategy for the innovative digital learning platform. In particular, he co-led the exam and credential strategy for CORe (Credential of Readiness), which... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

during the four modules focusing on key topics relevant for today’s leaders: Strategic thinking in a global context Creating and delivering customer value Performance excellence and shareholder value Leading and negotiating Leveraging... View Details

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

initial step, China Netcom's Chairman, Zhang Chunjiang, began a program that sought to further develop the company's corporate governance practices to meet international corporate governance standards. The company hoped that its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

M-Budget Card Initiative Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch, and Christian WellingHarvard Business School Case 410-052 The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

Total Quality Management was strategic when it was developed? Not strategic in the sense that I use the word strategic. "Strategic" is a word that gets used promiscuously—some people use it to mean... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work programs, or inspiring MBAs to forge... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Dec 2019
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Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

Professional Development who gave her a sounding board and new perspective, and ultimately decided to make the scary but exciting jump back into the industry she loved. Her next role was as the Director of Strategic View Details

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

earlier smaller private waste traders, and the later garbage agglomerates, and have been neglected in an era that historians have treated as a period of municipalization. These entrepreneurs sometimes had strikingly modern views of environmental challenges and the need... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

organization’s operations more efficient through strategic improvement projects, thus allowing salauno to better serve its patients. Leger’s passion for social impact was itself borne of growing up a citizen of the world. Born in France,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

02 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy

Director Amanda Schmitt – Recruiting Relations Manager Together, Phillip and Amanda make up the Career & Professional Development team that manages relationships with recruiting partners in the energy sector, including cleantech. They also engage with the Business... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

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Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

management and strategic thinking tools in the social sector,” he recalls. In that class, however, Nicolette grappled much more deeply with the challenges and injustices faced by urban school districts in America. “That realization... View Details

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A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Global Citizen Year in a much more ambitious and strategic way—focusing on impact, scalability, and sustainability from our inception.” As the organization enters its next chapter, with expansion planned for China and the Middle East, and... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker

initiated a multilateral debt relief program for the heavily indebted poor countries, with the Bank committing some $2 billion to this effort. New strategic partnerships have been formed with a variety of... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements critical to creating... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"... View Details

Keywords: Education

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Science Complex—four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011—the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard's 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. New Management Skills Needed Both in the scale and scope... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

strategic rationale of branding and its importance to competing effectively on the demand side of the economy. In a young market, he realized, consumers had to be able to identify a particular product's source, functional attributes, and... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

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