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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
mountaineering expeditions and firefighting crews. We've found that for change to stick, leaders must design and run an effective persuasion campaign—one that begins weeks or months before the actual turnaround plan is set in concrete.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in executing many joint processes as... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
process was the financing of projects. I wanted to learn more about that aspect, so I decided to apply to business school because I thought there would be no better place to learn about it. I decided to come to HBS and there have been so... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s testing experience revealed an ad hoc View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
astounding organizations of any kind. Q: In the course description, you talk about breaking the "shackles" of traditional management. Can you provide some specifics? Hamel: Sure. Let's look at resource allocation, for example. That View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
"Purpose is just one part of the whole process . We definitely have to concretize the steps we intend to do, break down the core purpose to objectives, and then to relevant action plans ." Shrikant... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the financial meltdown. He advocates pay View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
overview of key issues that Lebowitz and his team must consider as they plan for the firm's growth—how to raise capital, how to gauge the optimal size for the company, and how to manage an expanding staff. A major highlight of the case is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
that a decision maker may use in a multiattribute decision problem. In addition, it may be used to tailor the utility elicitation process to the comfort level of the decision maker. The new conditions, and the corresponding functional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
caliber and performance of the students we have interviewed and hired for our positions at DRK. The recruiting process is very well planned and organized which enables us to better View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Web
IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation By Kellyn Eaddy on September 20, 2024 Strategic Initiative: 1.05 Service Delivery Improvement Plan Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity HBS IT... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of her masculine, aggressive style in the classroom. As she begins to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
Meet Annie & Piper: A Student and Dog's Life at HBS
Before attending HBS, Annie Fulton studied Architecture at the University of Arkansas and worked for a building materials company. It was important to Annie that she become more involved with the decision-making process of what is built... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
a degree in marketing. She then spent three years at GE Healthcare as a process improvement consultant before coming to Harvard Business School. Post HBS, she worked as a senior analyst in Nike’s corporate strategy department before... View Details
Platform for Dialogue
critiques that elevated my work in a number of ways. Although I arrived as a historian of early modern South Asia, HBS catalyzed a process of broadening me into a scholar of comparative societies and the history of global capitalism. One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
of information that she could not find elsewhere, she realized her research might help others as well. "The book is the collective wisdom of those who've been there, the anecdotal advice only a friend might tell you," observes Cohen. "Putting it all into a book was a... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We apply their model to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
clubs’ conferences. It was a tough task to balance the first semester course load with cold emails, Zoom calls, planning meetings, etc. However, both the planning process and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
the scientists and researchers in the young company asked Cardozo if he would like to join the team as CEO in early 2014. The process works like this: End-of-life tires are collected at the Black Bear plant, where their steel wiring is... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon