Publications

22 Feb 2015
News

The Smart Way to Create a Transparent Workplace

12 Jun 2013
News

How the NSA Got So Smart So Fast

07 Mar 2019
News

Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands

David Benitez (OPM 46, 2014) is founder and president of Intelligent Mexican Marketing (IMM Latino), a company that provides a brand-building platform in the United States' Hispanic market by being the largest connectors of Latino products, services, and experiences.... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run by Match Education CEO Stig... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

2014
Book

Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts

By: Dorothy A. Leonard, Walter Swap and Garvin Barton

When highly skilled subject matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations, they take with them years of hard-earned, experience-based knowledge—much of it undocumented and irreplaceable. Organizations can thereby lose a good part of their... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Management

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March 2008 (Revised December 2008)
Case

KIPP 2007: Implementing a Smart Growth Strategy

By: Stacey M. Childress and Maura Lynn Marino

After opening 60 schools in 8 years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated entity led by a principal who was selected and trained by the... View Details

Keywords: Education; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States

Educators

14 Nov 2012
News

Ex-Windows Chief Seen as Smart but Abrasive

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By: Rajiv Lal

Developing a course for our MBA students on the opportunities and challenges in Building a Business around Smart Connected Products/IoT View Details

April 2007
Article

Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices: The Limited Partner Performance Puzzle

By: Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar and Wan Wong

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance; Partners and Partnerships

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14 Oct 2011
News

Biz school students put smarts in Jeopardy vs. supercomputer

Article

Free Food Delivery for the Elderly Would Be Smart

By: Scott Duke Kominers

18 Apr 2016
News

Women Who Don't Negotiate Could Be Making a Smart Choice

Aug 21 2017
Testimonial

Learn with Peers Who Are Smart and Experienced

14 Oct 2014
News

Making smart investments in companies that solve critical social needs

Lisa Hall (MBA 1993), managing director of impact investing for Anthos Asset Management, talks about her work overseeing a financial portfolio of social enterprises that guarantee a financial return along with addressing critical social needs, such as a company that... View Details

October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm

By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez

"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details

Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation

Educators

Article

Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence

By: A.W. Brooks, F. Gino and M.E. Schweitzer

Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and ideas, many individuals are reluctant to seek advice from others. We find that people are reticent to seek advice for fear of appearing incompetent. This fear, however, is misplaced.... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking

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Regulatory, Legal, and Market Aspects of Smart Wearables for Cardiac Monitoring

By: Jan Benedikt Brönneke, Jennifer Müller, Konstantinos Mouratis, Julia Hagen and Ariel Dora Stern

In the area of cardiac monitoring, the use of digitally driven technologies is on the rise. While the development of medical products is advancing rapidly, allowing for new use-cases in cardiac monitoring and other areas, regulatory and legal requirements that govern... View Details

Keywords: Wearables; Regulatory Changes; Medical Technology; Medical Devices; Market Access; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; Germany; Belgium