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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
topics related to data and analytics and do so in different ways. Business Analytics teaches participants to apply basic statistics to real business problems and includes hands-on practice implementing analyses in Excel. The course covers... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
The Office of Strategy Management Many organizations suffer a disconnect between strategy formulation and its execution. The answer? HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and colleague Andrew Pateman argue for the creation of a new corporate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
with Harvard's interfaculty Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative, resulted in his formulation of a model of human behavior that explains why even the most "rational" people behave irrationally at times, willfully continuing in self-destructive... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
decentralize," he said in a recent Bulletin interview, "but rather which decision rights should be centralized and which decentralized." In the book, Jensen further argues that decentralizing decision rights creates control problems when... View Details
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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
it offered in industrial relations. In courses such as “Human Problems of Administration” and “Personnel Research” students became familiar with prevailing management theories that espoused the importance of a cooperative system and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
participants to understand how their role encompasses all organizational disciplines; to learn to manage up, down, across, and outside the organization; to perform a working assessment of their organizations; and to formulate solutions to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
formulating negotiation strategy, strive to view the landscape as other parties see it. Returning to our hockey example, the NHL general managers had to work on at least three different levels as they raced to sign players. They had to... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons I learned from HBS Peek
MBA from Harvard Business School does not teach you a specific way of solving corporate issues, but it does teach you to see the problem from all different angles and evaluate what approach is better for each particular situation. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
success,” Bowen said. “An important part of that process is developing systems and measurements to ensure that the people you hire, beyond their résumé qualifications, will fit the firm’s culture. That’s a big problem for small companies.... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
working solutions to a complex innovation problem over 10 days, with varying monetary incentives. We find that levels of effort are driven by cash incentives and the presence of other interacting teammates. The level of collaboration, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
needs to formulate (and commit to) engagement mechanisms for economic governance—which builds citizen confidence in their role as partners. To ingrain legitimacy in Zambia, for instance, a cabinet-level executive Privatization Agency was... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
managing change. Instead, they develop many disconnected initiatives to bring about change — initiatives that by their piecemeal nature are doomed to failure. "In light of that," Beer explains, "we formulated this profiling... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
business and finding reliable vendors and distributors. And while companies need to have strong, viable business and economic models, Stevenson said, he also warned against marrying tradition at the risk of innovation. The Mixed Blessing Of Success "One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest and concern for the View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
problem with cancelling the ICE contract is that it is probably one of hundreds of MS contracts with the government, many of which are supporting other potentially unpopular programs Because MS is providing business infrastructure to ICE,... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
It’s hard to say who’s right, however. Outside of a few high-profile examples like Brin, there have been virtually no data to gauge the level at which immigrants create companies and jobs. Kerr has sought to remedy that problem with a new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
they see as major strategic stumbling blocks. The process of overcoming these problems can help nonprofits develop clear and measurable strategies for success. Lack Of Clarity About Intended Impact What do you want to do, and how will you... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
aspire to lead technology ventures. These individuals love to solve hard problems and to build, and they have entrepreneurial drive. Applicants must also have an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.... View Details
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Hiroshi Mikitani
where Mikitani graduated in 1993, he began to formulate ideas for his own venture. Studying hundreds of cases of startup success, he was transformed. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own... View Details