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  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

instruments and implants have revolutionized the way surgeons treat the traumas that can afflict the human skeleton. While successfully navigating the complexities of this highly competitive industry, Wyss, a lifelong hiker, has... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

codifying values. Specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes for faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but little on what to teach. Faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. The book represents a unique comparative study of the complex and non-linear impact of globalization and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

interviewing, vetting, and onboarding candidates, when and how do we collect insight/feedback so we can improve upon our methods? How does an environment become conducive to a range of human experiences in an increasingly complex world?... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Meaningful progress on complex social issues depends in part on the entrepreneurial ideas and energy of the next generation. In recent years, we have seen a sustained increase in HBS students launching social impact ventures. In response... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

effectiveness; 2) the challenges of building a values-based organization; 3) the complexities of managing talent in a young industry, particularly within an emerging market; and 4) the final decision by CEO Man Jit Singh and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

in learning and development programs for hourly workers; investing in nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting systemic racism; making its products more accessible to underserved communities; and delivering on robust diversity and... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

solutions to their needs, and gather feedback via rapid, iterative prototyping. Technical Knowledge: The use of rigorous system engineering methods to plan, design, develop, build, and test a complex... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give casewriting workshop participants practice writing those sections. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

definitions of the term are complex and at times contradictory. This background note traces the origins of university ranking systems and their evolution from a byproduct of lists of great men in the United... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

system rather than a government-controlled system. Book: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServletCr?region=9&imprint=070&titleCode=GCCL&cf=p&type=3&id=254645 Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2019
  • News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

"advanced leadership" in a complex social system such as a community or region. There was no central leader; instead there was a collection of coalitions and collaborative activities that... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs the first air conditioning View Details
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel