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- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
practice. “We propose to step back and ask how we can best integrate machine learning to solve previously untenable marketing problems facing real companies?” Combining man and machine A product of the 11th Triennial Invitational Choice... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-led growth strategies are providing the right answer. This note outlines a number of these concerns, ranging from the practical to the conceptual. It argues that an underlying problem has been the misguided interpretation of export... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
opposed to blindly continuing on a path when all the signals in your competitive environment suggest you need to change course. When I've looked more carefully at why companies fail, oftentimes they see a problem but their structure gets... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
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 descriptive... 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 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
- Web
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 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)
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Powerful Ideas - Annual Report 2014
of innovation have quickened. Society is asking business to do more, and to tackle problems that often require cross-disciplinary solutions. Our repertoire of research methodologies has expanded to include, for example, laboratory... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
organization's culture affects its economic performance. The basic working hypotheses are that: (1) people put forth more effort and produce better results for organizations whose values they identify with, and (2) therefore, it's in the best interests of organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
our first visit, Sr. Director of Technology Soren Kristiansen walked us through the LEGO Group’s efforts to develop the next generation of blocks. Their team is working in parallel on bio-based and recycled plastics, iterating on View Details