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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
designed to develop leadership skills, self-awareness, and familiarity with pathways to postsecondary education. High school BALF programs provide students with critical skills and support to successfully prepare for, apply, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
Summing Up Summarizing this month's rich stew of comments regarding leadership is a hazardous task. The subject is far too complex for four paragraphs. So please bear with me. The strongest messages I received were that if leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
retire but also felt a commitment to the communities that their outlets served and hoped to preserve these assets. Like so many owner-publishers around the country, the Healeys found few options: “It’s just very difficult to assemble the financing, and that need for... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Oftentimes an organization might be engaged in a partnership at one point or another, or be a member of an umbrella organization ... but it's not really a network approach... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
to “flatten the curve” and reduce the number of bankruptcy filings, at least by enough to allow the existing system to function effectively. Massive financial support available to distressed businesses under the CARES Act and various recently enacted Federal Reserve... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
instruction, putting them significantly behind Hispanics (21 percent) and whites (38 percent). With significantly less support than white children, Black students go on to complete four-year programs at public institutions at a slower... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
argue your points in front of very smart people. I knew that I was going back to Africa and, as a young woman, I needed a name that would resonate.” Win, win: “My Negotiation class at HBS helped me in my personal and my professional... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
fundamental building blocks of the company's strategy. “The idea is to help businesses cross borders profitably by seeing the world as it really is.” Note that Toyota's starting point is not a grand, longer-term vision of some distant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards 41% of HBS alumni currently serve on a nonprofit board 1 , and many more have or will serve on a board at some point in their career. To support this extraordinary number of alumni... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
rapidly leveraging new ways of doing things, both from an operational and commercial standpoint, quickly became a number one priority. Keeping up to date with the latest governmental information was a useful starting point for many, but... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
results. Other Interesting Points Expansion of earnings multiple. Companies usually focus on increasing their market capitalization by growing earnings. However, a result of transparency and sound governance can be the creation of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
story. Offer free or lower-priced products to help people meet the challenges the crisis presents, particularly those most in need, such as healthcare workers or those forced into unemployment due to the changing economic environment. For example, Marriott’s and... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
bank accounts. She left her talking points and went on a tear: “I said, guys, if you don’t move now, the fintechs will take you over.” The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
applicants were being discouraged by many employers from going to full-time MBA programs, that part-time MBA, executive MBA, and other masters programs were seen as attractive substitutes, and that the students who came were not as... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
to entertainment? Was there something else entirely that I hadn’t even considered?) I had also reached a point in my career where I realized that I needed to build my voice (read: my own confidence) as a leader. Looking back, I couldn’t... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
percentage increase in nurses' perceptions of safety improvement were no better than that of 48 control hospitals. Thus, we investigated drivers of successful program implementation within the set of treatment hospitals. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
own. Such a formula, he believes, has enabled his company to eliminate the "boarding-school issues" that take up 20% to 30% of managers' time—and that many formal change programs are designed to address. Often described as... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan