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Digital Operations - Course Catalog
digital technologies allow firms to improve efficiency, quality, and speed, and foster innovation. Students will recognize the importance of process design and adaptation in leveraging digital... View Details
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Colt Stander
business problem better through things like marketing, finance, and operations. At the same time, I saw my design principles would have a greater influence in the larger business channel, impacting more people for the greater good. The... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
coupled search processes can dramatically obscure the true impact of design on performance, confounding empirical research. We identify research strategies for tackling this difficulty; discuss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2012
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Structuring Consulting Firms
By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand
This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Projects; Groups and Teams; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
Morris, Tim, Heidi K. Gardner, and N. Anand. "Structuring Consulting Firms." In The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- December 1998
- Background Note
Cash Management Practices in Small Companies
By: H. Kent Bowen, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly and Baltej Kochar
Most small business managers claim that cash management is their leading concern. Often walking a tightrope between growth and illiquidity, small business managers face different cash management challenges than their counterparts in larger companies. Compared to larger... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Working Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Cash; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy; Business Strategy
Bowen, H. Kent, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly, and Baltej Kochar. "Cash Management Practices in Small Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 699-047, December 1998.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
another. Tire executives apparently assumed that the bias tire would continue as the dominant design, and this assumption was enacted through their company's well-honed new product development process which had produced a steady flow of... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815129-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-022 IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design This case describes the human-centered innovation culture and service design... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
The Making of an Internship
share the career criteria that drove their internship searches and how their respective organizations aligned with their passions. An effective onboarding process can have many benefits for both employers and their new hires, including... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Diversity on Boards - Race, Gender & Equity
Diversity Network as Members. Disseminating Insights Join the Board Diversity Network Women on Boards HBS Executive Education Designed specifically for top women executives, this program provides insight into navigating the board... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
JOEL PODOLNY: New courses reach across disciplines. Yale set out in the fall of 2006 to create a distinctive new model of management education, one that eliminated traditional discipline-based courses and replaced them with courses View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
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A Clean Start
for the chemical formula of carbon dioxide) with his father and fellow green chemical engineer, Terry Brix, and began to design a processing device that works a lot like a fuel cell, but in reverse. When a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to determine who... View Details
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Peek into Business | MBA
a software engineer designing solutions to a content creator building their brand. What Do Jobs in Business Look Like? Discover the diverse range of careers in business, from entry level positions to dream roles. What Skills Are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each other. Processes such as the... View Details
- July – August 2011
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The Paradox of Samsung's Rise
By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research and Development; Marketing; Business Processes; Brands and Branding; System; Globalized Markets and Industries; Transformation; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Production; Quality; China; India; Turkey
Khanna, Tarun, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee. "The Paradox of Samsung's Rise." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 142–147.
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Benjamin Story
stakeholders," says Ben. "But at the same time, we were creating a design tool for review sessions. In the past, the fine-tuning would come after construction, which made changes very expensive. With virtual reality, however,... View Details
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Inessa Lurye
MBA/MPP degree at HBS and Harvard Kennedy School, Inessa helped expand the reach of the HBS Design Club, and fulfilled a field project at Harvard Art Museums that developed art workshops designed around... View Details
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Admissions | MBA
Future leaders start here. View Brochure Join Our List Who Are We Looking For? Class Profile Joint Degree Programs Application Process Application Portal 2+2 Deferred Admission Applicants International Applicants Next Application Deadline... View Details
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2+2 Program | MBA
2+2 Program A deferred admission process for current students, either in college or full-time master’s degree programs. Play Video duration: 0:52 1,564 Total 2+2 applicants in 2024 103 Committed 2+2 students 61 Undergraduate institutions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
In the fall of 2019, Kaelyn Griffin and Adam Palay entered HBS as two of 30 students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, a joint degree offered with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. View Details
Keywords: All Industries