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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
have to coordinate complicated networks of suppliers. Johnson & Johnson has to gain approval for new medical devices. Procter & Gamble has to develop effective product marketing plans. For these companies to be successful, they... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
the company’s commitment to process improvement and excellence. The meticulous process standardization and data tracking of both components and process efficiency was impressively coordinated at such a massive scale. Finally, we learned... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
program. We were able to retain some really excellent talent because of the flexibility that we provided, and they were highly productive. As technical folks who are operating completely online, pushing code or writing code and pushing it into production, everybody is... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
Economic Recovery Council to forge a strategic path forward for inclusive revitalization. “On a personal level,” Pasricha says, “I appreciate the coordination of multiple sectors that will have to play a big part of any recovery; that’s... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
time and resources to learn "outside the job" would be really helpful. I actually considered applying to a SEAS master's program during my RC year, but without a program like this it was hard to coordinate schedules and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
pursued research that is relevant to practitioners, in contrast to the work of many scholars at other business schools, who give priority to generating and validating theory of interest to peers in the academy. Likewise, HBS aims to educate general managers. Since... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
Economic Recovery Council to forge a strategic path forward for inclusive revitalization. “On a personal level,” Pasricha says, “I appreciate the coordination of multiple sectors that will have to play a big part of any recovery; that’s... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
coordinate the activities of the three product-based business units which, until now, have operated autonomously. As he is executing the restructuring, Bank of America, an important account of the firm, announces its intention to reduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the organization together and promote coordination and teamwork. If the organization is a country, then one can only imagine the difficulty of effectively managing all of its individual components. South Korea’s leadership under president... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
that creating one financial market across the Union was crucial to allowing true coordination within the Union. They quickly realized that having one set of accounting was a necessary component in making the "one market" concept... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
mismatches and help people understand what's actually going to be required. MDP: Yes. We will never theorize our way to a coordinated labor market. And so asking high schools or universities to guess what an employer needs—and then to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
has taken the lead in coordinating and sharing case leads, and we saw remarkable progress this past year in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program. COVID-19 has changed the way we operate in both business and social settings. What (if... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
develop, produce, and implement relevant, resonant promotional campaigns. Increasing numbers of advertisers are discovering that the demand for advertising and marketing services is best served through the coordination and integration of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of two-sided platforms' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
common goal via information-sharing, joint decision-making, and coordination of activities. In contrast to prior work, we distinguish forms of collaboration by three organizational goals—unit management, routine production, and process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
organization that could help schools coordinate with each other and receive shared support services without creating the dysfunction of a large urban district. “One of the benefits of being a charter school is the autonomy that school... View Details