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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Innovation Outside the Boundaries
introduced as part of the field method, which complements the School’s case method pedagogy. “As future leaders in a global business environment,” Thiry says, “MBAs need skills and insights informed by real-world, hands-on problem solving... View Details
- 21 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club
sustainability, create forums for discussions on sustainability-related cases outside of the classroom, and help curate professional opportunities for students to pursue long-term careers in climate. Erin O’Malley: I’ve spent my career... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
demanding that middle- and lower-level managers redo their forecasts, plans, and budgets. In some cases, top executives simply acquiesce to increasingly unrealistic analyst forecasts and adopt them as the basis for setting organizational goals and developing internal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
investing, some of the firms were dubbed the “Facebook of investing.” “In some cases those words end up doing a very good job of describing it. In other cases they did not,” McDonald says. And that’s a... View Details
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato”... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-057.pdf Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
some responsibility for that. Most of them are neither studying nor teaching emerging best practices in asset valuation and risk management. They need to begin exploring the interior of leading-edge companies to provide detailed, qualitative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
like me in a position like that. I remember him as such a commanding presence, in both stature and demeanor. He expected a lot and accepted no excuses. I quickly went from having no concept of business school to analyzing and debating business View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
monitoring" and entirely absent in those with "tight monitoring." The results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
unobserved heterogeneity bias. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-051.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsTata Motors: The Tata Ace Harvard Business School Case 108-011 Considers the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_16/b4174076731775.htm?chan=magazine+channel_business+views Cases & Course Materials Foxwoods: Turning Data into Insights in the Hospitality Industry Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
many new cases arrive at the same time, companies could be much less well-served by the bankruptcy reorganization process.” What makes the current financial crisis unique is that the economic harm caused by forced shutdowns is being felt... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
can be blended up to 10% without the need to retrofit or replace the existing assets. BTG Bioliquids first fast pyrolysis facility, Empyro, was financed by the EU and Dutch development funds and some private investors. Its business case... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
systems to help people succeed in both the short and long run. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52834 Harvard Business School Case 709-417 Betfair vs. UK Bookmakers Betting exchanges provide an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
such highly used software can lead to security issues existing in the code base for more than 20 years, as was the case with PuTTY SSH. From hobby to mainstream Over the past 20 years, FOSS has moved from the domain of hobbyists and... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone has to take initiative to give a positive pep-talk and in many... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett