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- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
exercise unless management approaches them with military discipline." Mike Kirkeberg goes even further in saying, "All new management philosophies and strategies work ... until they don’t. ... It seems very simple: Make a good... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on executing strategy in... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
company. CSOs should have their finger on the pulse of the company culture, understanding what motivates employees and devising a strategy for implementing change that aligns with the workforce. Sometimes... View Details
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 03 Oct 2018
HBX Becoming A Better Manager
Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: October 3, 2018 - November 28, 2018 View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
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HBS Online Management Essentials
Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: January 9, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace by Guhan Subramanian (W.W. Norton) Today’s marketplace is filled with business transactions that include elements of both negotiations and auctions, yet the received wisdom on dealmaking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
now running more like a 21st-century business than a 1950s-style business. Internally, we implemented a top-to-bottom reorganization and began to bring business practices and technology up-to-date. We also View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
How-To Book for General Managers
Effective implementation often comes down to how well executives design, direct, and influence their organization's critical processes. HBS professor David Garvin's new book, General Management: Processes and Action (McGraw-Hill),... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
boundaries and fuses various functions of a firm together (as well as a firm with its customers, suppliers, and partners) may suggest that marketing as we knew it has become so identified with the development and implementation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
image by John Ritter From Uber’s surge pricing to dynamic ticket pricing, it seems there’s been more awareness of pricing models and pricing strategy in recent years. What’s driving that interest? Thales Teixeira: We need to go back... View Details
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
society. Our ultimate goal is to create networks of dedicated leaders who collaboratively identify and implement innovative strategies and business practices. Additionally, these discussions provide valuable... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
corporate managers use information provision to encourage subsidiaries' adoption of advanced management practices. Focusing on the distribution of expertise across subsidiaries, we propose that corporate managers elect an information provision View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
practical to think so? Do the economics of education for management even permit it? What do you think? Original Article Strategy and implementation, two sides of the same coin, are often juxtaposed. How often have you heard someone say,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
success contrast with anecdotes where the diffusion of CRM into organizations continues to be a slow process and/or where CRM implementation outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Successful View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
urban district has cracked the code about how to spread excellence across its entire system. We asked our nine districts what their biggest barriers were in achieving excellence at scale, and they described five categories of management challenges: View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
better. To this end, they offer a set of management tools drawn from best practices in successful companies, the military, and government agencies. After showing why the federal personnel system needs reform, the book presents specific steps for View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
"Kash" Rangan, distribution channels are the hardest to change of all the elements of marketing strategy. Clearly, companies need a new strategy for going to market, he says. In his new book Transforming Your Go-to-Market... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
different levers for measuring and implementing a company's strategy. Companies whose BSC describes a low total cost strategy need ABC for accurately measuring the costs of critical processes. Otherwise they... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert