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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
"Conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific," argues Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. "To produce novel strategies, teams need to adopt a step-by-step View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
sit at meetings, for example — whereas in other aspects of life, everybody is treated the same. How do you operate in such a different environment? I spent the first year developing a strategic operating plan for the company. For the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
offer, but Moret knew that Virginia could make a strong case. Both his own career and the planning he had undertaken in the early months of his tenure were perfectly aligned with this unexpected opportunity. Moret was first introduced to... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Blog Post
2019-2020 Recruiting Calendar Available Now
local venue or virtually if you prefer. 2) Bidding, the process in which students could use bid points to secure a spot on an interview schedule without being selected by the company, will no longer be part of the interview process.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
be satisfied with current process compliance measures and overly broad metrics covering hospitals as a whole. What is needed is true outcomes, medical condition by medical condition, that will guide choice of providers and enable... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
the next steps specified, the job of the strategist is finished. All that remains to be done is to implement the plan and defend the sustainable competitive advantage it has wrought. Or at least that's the positive take on the story. But,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for communication and View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Refugees' Attitudes Towards Compromise and Civil War Termination By: Fabbe, Kristin, Chad Hazlett, and Tolga Sınmazdemir Abstract— Civilians who have fled violent conflict and settled in neighboring countries are integral to processes of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
their taxes to Rome?" Sunil Unni echoes this point of view: "Globalization is an ongoing process that can only peak when citizens across the world enjoy its benefits without any barriers whatsoever." Henrique Plöger Abreu... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Support for Students with Disabilities | MBA
Support for Students with Disabilities Assistance is available at HBS for students with disabilities, which may include mobility, vision, hearing, and other physical impairments or health conditions, as well as learning disabilities, attention deficit, and other View Details
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
mergers and acquisitions fail to achieve their objectives, suggesting possible remedies to this "flawed process." Kathryn Yates, for example, cited three primary reasons for M&A failure: "1) Forgetting to plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the process is reversed. At the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in the View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
change and uncertainty, and military frameworks play a foundational part of this training. A significant milestone was achieved in 2001 with the emergence of the Agile Manifesto, foundational principles initially aimed at improving software development. The manifesto... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
envisioned had not materialized. In a last-ditch effort to jumpstart the stalled exchange, the team built some software that created email templates and provided easy access to sales-contact data to personalize them quickly, making the task so intuitive that the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Thorborg (12th ISMP) and Christoph-Matthias Brand (MBA '94), plans for the 2000 HBS Global Alumni Conference in Berlin are proceeding very well. The conference, scheduled for June 13-16, boasts a full agenda of challenging sessions... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
efforts around online alumni services and products. Under the able leadership of Bob Shaw (MBA ’84), the Global Leadership Forum Committee spent most of the year defining a new financial and organizational model for the conferences. The committee also served as a vital... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
hackers, organized theft by criminals, and efforts by international terrorists to target and shut down, or threaten to shut down, everything from bank accounts to nuclear processing facilities. There has been an immediate call for risk... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett