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For Alumni - Health Care

Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market potential. For more information, please contact blavatnikfellowship@hbs.edu . Recruit As an HBS graduate, you know our students are equipped with the View Details
  • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Supplement

GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
CEO Jeff Immelt, ex-CEO Jack Welch, and HR Chief Bill Conaty discuss how GE has made talent development a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Immelt describes GE's deeply embedded philosophy around its people and how it has allowed the company to add value... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Competitive Advantage; System; Value
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  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

developer and user perspectives for bias, apply frameworks to communicate an innovation's value, and reflect on management skills for sustaining a culture of innovation. Highlights The Curse of Knowledge The... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

A Continuum of Innovation

seen to be—essential to developing the skills and insights business leaders need?) to the personal (How do we make sure that HBS continues to attract exceptional students as well as remarkable faculty and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

others. That was her north star,” says the Harvard College graduate and former McKinsey consultant. Palandjian’s embodiment of her forebearers’ values is a theme in all aspects of her life, including her leadership of Social Finance, a thriving nonprofit that View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I reached out to two ECs (second years) who had done the internship the previous summer, and learned that yes, this... View Details
  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

non-compete agreements affect employers and professionals in technology? Andy Wu: A ban on non-compete agreements would be great for professionals in the technology industry, ranging from software developers to account managers.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • Web

Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

min. 21 Jun 2016 Presentation Creating Shared Value Nestle Global Forum 2016 Creating Shared Value Nestle Global Forum 2016 by Michael E. Porter Nestle's CSV global forum entitled 'Investing in Sustainable Development in Africa,' brought... View Details
  • March 2023
  • Background Note

A Primer on OKRs

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
The OKR framework is a popular goal-setting and strategy execution tool that uses goal setting through “Objectives” and measuring performance using “Key Results” on a periodic basis to measure and drive performance. The OKR framework has been adopted and practiced at... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Talent and Talent Management; Framework; Corporate Governance; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Performance Efficiency
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  • January 2022
  • Case

Tomorrow.io Goes to Space

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Abhishek Nagaraj and James Barnett
This case study explores the evolution of Tomorrow.io, a weather forecasting technology company, as it pivoted toward building and launching space-based weather radar satellites. This strategic shift was driven by the company's ambition to overcome data limitations in... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Performance; Information Technology; Aerospace Industry
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  • June 2010
  • Article

Are You a High Potential?

By: Douglas A. Ready, Jay A. Conger and Linda A. Hill
Some employees are more talented than others, and nearly every company has its method for identifying their high-potential managers. So how can you get on your company's high-potential list? Douglas A. Ready, of the talent-management research center ICEDR; Jay A.... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

their great skill in those areas with a mastery of any two out of four secondary management practices—talent, innovation, leadership, and mergers and partnerships. We learned, for example, that it doesn't really matter if you implement... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Clinic’s historic mission of putting patients first. He prioritized Mayo’s focus on the most complex diseases patients faced, using its research to develop new treatments for many diseases. He reorganized Mayo into a single system of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees   The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Jack Rivkin

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Jack Rivkin’s innovative approach to hiring, developing, and retaining employees created opportunities for female analysts to thrive at the equity research department he led, and also made the entire department more effective. Rivkin fostered a culture of gender... View Details
Keywords: Gender Inclusivity; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Gender; Talent and Talent Management
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  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

As chairman and CEO of the leading vaccine producer in the world, pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Ken Frazier has one of the highest-profile positions in global business. But Frazier, who is leading one of the firms on a charge to View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
  • 08 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

have a career that spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Through the joint degree program, I am building skills that will allow me to leverage the strengths of each sector to drive economic and social impact. How have you... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a variety of programs View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

understand customers and their needs deeply. Develop the ability to respond to this understanding with better-tailored assortments, replenishment of the hits, and timely markdowns on what is left over. Execute well, especially at the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto