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  • 15 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

The deadline on an important work project is looming, but you keep getting distracted by news stories and silly cat videos online. Even though installing an Internet-blocking app might help you stay focused, you resist the idea, telling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • February 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

BUA Group

By: John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
BUA Group must decide between investments in cement, road building, power generation, or sugar. Private businesses are important to economic development in Africa. Students must assess the competitive nature of each of these industries, the magnitude of capital... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Transportation; Strategy; Project Finance; Agribusiness; Construction; Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets

growth of business history in India. Geoffrey Jones (Business History Initiative) discussed the Creating Emerging Markets project and how the oral histories being generated were being used in both teaching and research. Chinmay Tumbe... View Details
  • Web

Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

the following advices on storage Organization and other Best Practices: Two well written papers, Gentzkow & Shapiro (2014) and Noble (2009) , discuss strategies for organizing research project involving... View Details
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog

strategy execution, performance, financial prospects, and value. The primary emphasis is on the analysis of public companies, but the framework and tools are also relevant to private enterprises. This course is particularly valuable to... View Details
  • Web

Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery Course Number 6215 Professor Robert Huckman Associate Professor Susanna Gallani Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project (Requires Q3 course 2195: Transforming Health Care Delivery... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Internship In Action

It’s crazy how time flies, so much has happened since my last post and I am less than two weeks away from the end of my internship at Global Fashion Group(GHG)! The past few weeks have been very busy at work and in general. My project... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • Web

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a... View Details
  • August 1, 2015
  • Article

New Product Development Flexibility in a Competitive Environment

By: Janne Kettunen, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Zeger Degraeve and Bert De Reyck
Managerial flexibility can have a significant impact on the value of new product development projects. We investigate how the market environment in which a firm operates influences the value and use of development flexibility. We characterize the market environment... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Projects; Management Style; Situation or Environment; Innovation and Invention; Competition
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  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Ink

Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically prefer established technologies... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

in a special issue of Management Science. Ultimately, the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced from the battlefield—Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers too many benefits for users. But there are strategies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

businesses trying to bring innovation to market in Japan, including entrepreneurs and VCs, (3) discuss how some emerging business models and marketing strategies lend themselves to new forms of organizing, and (4) allow time for student... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology

Henry’s 2017 Fellowship year drew him into “ambitious tech projects solving big challenges in the city. This is not tech for tech’s sake, but to address issues like housing, transportation, and access to city hall.” Among Henry’s first... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

stages: Compliance: In this initial phase, companies often start with activities related to complying with regulations. Activities are not strategic or centralized. In addition to compliance, employees may volunteer to work on recycling View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • Profile

Yi-An Huang

Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m a director of strategy at Boston Medical Center. We have a small team, directly under the COO, that explores strategies in every area from operational View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • February 2004
  • Teaching Note

Sampa Video, Inc. (TN)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Peter Tufano
Teaching Note to (9-201-094). View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Service Delivery; Projects; Valuation; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Cost of Capital; Service Industry
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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

William Kerr and Joseph Fuller at podcast studio in Klarman Hall on HBS campus (photo by Susan Young) HBS launched the Managing the Future of Work project in 2017 to advance research that business and policy leaders can put into action as... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

holding them accountable?” Gehl said she and Porter wondered. “What’s going on?” Porter, who studies economic development and competitiveness, said the idea to examine politics through the lens of business stemmed from his experience overseeing the Competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette