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I became passionate about health policy and operations management while I was working with community health worker programs in rural Uganda. I witnessed firsthand the gaps in coordination that needed to be bridged, and spent a lot of time... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
company's stakeholders. Efforts are focused on a single, global corporate brand rather than individual product brands. The payback on marketing expenditures is measured rigorously to the satisfaction of the hard-nosed engineers and finance staff who run the typical B2B... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission
responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the organization; 2) support for... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Community | HBS Online
Connext . Are you interested in building your network and connecting with other like-minded business professionals? Join the Community today . Meet Some of Our Community Organizers Each Chapter is volunteer-led by learners who took at least one HBS Online course.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
thrown in the deep end,” he recalls, of owning his first business. “I did everything: marketing, making sales, coordinating shipments, supervising, installation of the ceilings.” In 1963, Diamond bought out his two partners, and later,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
the venture capitalist will increasingly become a team player, coordinating the firm's resources to help portfolio firms. Q: What are the opportunities and challenges for international venture capital efforts? A: For its first fifty... View Details
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What We Do | Research Associates
Low-Income Families Just a few weeks after I was hired as an RA, I went out to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we coordinated with a local nonprofit that sets up free tax preparation sites to ensure that low income individuals receive their Earned... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology
work directly with the senior leadership of the city.” In addition to the projects above, Henry worked on a Housing Rent Registry project with the Housing Department and IBM, coordinated a CEO advisory board for the mayor, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Changing Lives One Computer at a Time
close the digital divide that exists in low-income communities where many families don't have a computer at home. "It's such a compelling idea," says Edward Olebe (MBA '99), who has coordinated the project for the HBSAAA in New York. "Not... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
centralized effort or another significant program by the Federal Reserve. But a remarkably large pool of unmobilized capital is sitting within our firms and managers appear frozen in their decision-making. A gentle nudge to break this View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 14 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is a Career Coach?
Coordinating all of these activities are 29 staff members in CPD (in addition to the 50+ career coaches I already mentioned) who are dedicated to supporting students and alumni in their search. Why do you think so many HBS students end up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
consequences of group affiliation in Asia and Latin America for several years, often with HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu. His current research focuses on several important aspects of business groups: their effect on entrepreneurial activity in emerging markets; the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign, which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro-level benefits of this campaign, which involved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
emphasis on coordinating and communicating with the center's many diverse leaders. "Many nonprofits are led by people who only know programs, not operations," Grossman says. "A key strength of Levy's is knowing how to... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden costs of outsourcing. The most obvious is the cost of management and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne