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- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
service their entire IT operation in a proprietary environment in a single remote location. Freed from the burdens of day-to-day IT management," he said, "companies can devote more of their time to the strategic thinking that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
workshop, senior leadership teams explore innovation and change issues specific to their organizations, and focus on a strategic issue or change initiative of their own choosing. The program combines... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
for YouTube creators and advertisers. I really, really loved that job but I eventually hit a place where I wanted to be more involved in some of the higher level strategic decision-making (i.e. the kind that determined the existence of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
$96 million, as well as home rental service Airbnb, noting, "Why build new hotels when we've got all this spare capacity?" Henderson works closely with the STAR Lab, a new initiative focused on research about environmental consumer... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
shows how they addressed the formidable challenge of the internment of their employees in British camps during both WWI and WWII. We find that internment impacted business relationships in India well beyond its endpoint and that the WWI internment shaped the subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their incentives, but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
offer a different and productive path forward. The philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Joshua Weiss Abstract In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
led by Peter Barrett, PhD, faculty chair, and an advisory board of seasoned business and biotechnology leaders who serve as one-on-one mentors and provide strategic direction during the fellows' program year. “Since joining the Blavatnik... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
tax savings. We find that 2,281 top executives strategically realized their built-in capital gains prior to the tax hikes to save nearly $741 million in personal taxes in 2012. These executives also (1) make payout policy choices that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
recently announced Klarman Hall convening center are key elements of an ambitious campus master planning effort—one driven by practical, strategic goals developed to support curriculum innovations. “One of the things that makes this a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
ever really ask or address well, which is, 'How does customer value work over time?' How is cultural value created; how is it maintained; how is it destroyed?'" With the strategic importance of brands climbing, understanding how... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
1969 (After active duty, rose to rank of Lt. Colonel in Reserves) "No matter what business you're in, there is nothing more important than integrity and the reputation of your company. The post-bubble economy notwithstanding, there is always a role for an experienced,... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
has taken an entrepreneurship course at Harvard has evaded this last point—the problem, as Hart put it, of "how nothing ever proceeds according to plan, and how you adapt strategically and tactically." Should a start-up survive,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on data management, strategic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had risen 1,200 percent from its... View Details