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- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
encourage partners to collaborate across the firm to serve clients' increasingly global and complex needs. In 2007, under Smith's leadership, the partnership agreed to implement holistic change, which included shifting from geographical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
that might be in or near or not even close to your professional network. Those are real learning opportunities for what might be needed from the companies that are out there.” Know how to connect the dots across sectors. Because business and climate change topics are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
information flow through social media " Respondents described what increasingly will be required of leaders. Kapil Kumar Sopory said that "Leadership these days has become a complex art people with bias for listening, testing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting 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 by the licensee, and audit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- Web
Security & Privacy | Information Technology
people, you need to be extremely careful regarding what tools you use. Password Managers A password manager can help you juggle the need to have unique complex passwords at every site. Working Remotely? These best practices will help you... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
each with a remarkable track record of innovations that built on past capabilities. The same assets, processes, and capabilities that make established firms complex and hard to manage also make them incredibly powerful and impactful. The... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
business together and so are willing to invest resources in building a highly functional link, especially one that allows their information systems to interact on routine tasks without human intervention. This intervention is costly and... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
pharmaceutical companies focused their R&D on treatments for common illnesses — such as diabetes and high cholesterol — an approach that resulted in the development of blockbuster drugs. We now recognize that diseases are far more complex... View Details
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami - Blog - Business & Environment
continued with Highland Electric Fleets , which is revolutionizing school bus systems across the country. By converting regularly scheduled school buses to electric vehicles, Highland has created a dual-purpose solution – these buses not... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog
Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) General Management Andy Zelleke Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage Strategy Eric J. Van den Steen Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Creating the Modern Financial... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Architectural capabilities provide managers with the ability to see a complex technical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Ted Berk Private Equity Finance Finance Fall... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Ivy So and Alina Staskevicius Description: The growth of impact investing has led to an unprecedented focus on impact measurement, with the aim of understanding both financial and social return on these investments. However, impact measurement is View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
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