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1.5 University-Wide Statement on Rights and Responsibilities | MBA

individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights View Details
  • December 2022
  • Article

I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure

By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits. Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
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  • 26 Mar 2015
  • News

Improving the environment through green spaces and commercial buildings

Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co., a family-owned commercial construction company, is helping Houston become a greener city. “We in the commercial construction... View Details
  • March 2020
  • Case

Braver Angels: A Grassroots Effort to Depolarize American Politics

By: Francesca Gino, Julia A. Minson and Jeff Huizinga
The founders of Braver Angels, an organization that uses family therapy principles to foster constructive dialogue between conservatives and liberals, consider how to improve its effectiveness and reach. View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Interpersonal Communication; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; United States
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  • 02 Dec 2019
  • News

Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

drive the ship rather than just keep it running,” she explains. While Iyer’s focus is on the business side, she marvels at the creative side. “I’m excited to be in this environment, constantly meeting people such as artists and View Details
  • May 2000 (Revised July 2000)
  • Case

U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (B), The

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Construction Industry; Construction Industry; China; United States
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  • 1990
  • Chapter

Resolving Local Regulatory Disputes and Building Consensus for Affordable Housing

By: M. A. Wheeler
Keywords: Housing; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Local Range; Conflict and Resolution; Negotiation; Construction Industry
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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, View Details
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

useful for discussing the process of developing buyer personas, the uses and limitations of these constructs in allocating resources in a venture, and the relevance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

new ideas. Case in point: At Bing, a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled experiment—an A/B... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Assess, Don't Assume, Part II: Negotiating Implications of Cross-Border Differences in Decision Making, Governance, and Political Economy

By: James K. Sebenius

When facing a cross-border negotiation, the standard preparatory assessments—of the parties, their interests, their no-deal options, opportunities for and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.—should be... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations
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  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

engineers? You're enmeshed within this wash of information, and your inventors create and they help others create and others help them create. Then the challenge becomes, which... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 11 May 2011
  • News

The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS

beauty in topography or tree growth.” Much progress has been made since then! More than 2,000 trees have been planted on the campus since 1971, but given construction and other factors, about 880 trees are... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • March 1990
  • Case

Lehrer McGovern Bovis, Inc. (Abridged)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes the growth of a construction management company and the operating problems it now encounters. Designed to introduce students to the value of competition in the construction industry, to show how the techniques of value analysis can be used to strategic... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Operations; Construction; Growth Management; Quality; Competition; Problems and Challenges; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Construction Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

we view employment. If we manage this shift well, we’ll be creating an engine for economic growth. Mess it up and we’ll stifle a major driver of innovation, business creation, View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional maps that can be used to identify investment opportunities and to formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a... View Details
Keywords: Bottlenecks; Information Technology; System; Investment; Opportunities; Strategy
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  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52650 Reinventing the American Wine Industry: Marketing Strategies and the Construction of Wine Culture By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This working paper examines the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS

Kimi Goldstein (MBA 2022) grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and received her B.S. in biomedical engineering from Yale University. Prior to attending HBS, she held roles at Oliver Wyman View Details