Balancing Innovation And Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

I’m happy to concede some territory here: I’m not convinced it’s essential to running the company that I can derive WACC or read Balance of Payments statements. This argument does, though, undervalue the soft stuff that is taught View Details

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

dedicated to adaptation efforts, highlighting the need for a more balanced approach. Striking a balance between mitigation and adaptation is crucial for addressing the... View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

organizations like Doctors Without Borders, responding to a disaster, will necessarily have more complex operational strategies. In order to provide shelter and food, they have to control an elaborate supply... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 May 2018
News

Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987

admitting that balancing her career and family takes work. Although Harris is brimming with confidence, she is not one to brag. Her life’s remarkable trajectory—including being the subject of an HBS case... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Awarded Second Place in the 2023 TIMES Best Working Paper Competition from the Technology, Innovation Management View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution; today they are some of the most innovative educational centers in the world. Will China threaten American primacy? Participants will explore these questions through case studies View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees, earned income... View Details

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

people to do senior managers all want innovation and risk taking in principle, but they don't have ways of measuring and evaluating it in the short term. So focus generally... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

courses are completed successfully, learners will earn a Certificate of Specialization. HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in Leadership and Management , Strategy , Entrepreneurship and View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

wounds in the balance sheet—spurring the call to Kahn—and her ultimate recommendations were a challenge to leadership. But she met considerable resistance from the parent company chiefs, including her father. "Godrej has been one of those... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

effects from someone else’s disruption, threats to future plans. It’s important that people feel that there is something positive they can do to be useful and regain some control over routines View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

while pursuing their long-term vision of reshaping the fashion industry and its impact on the environment. Entrepreneurship, Theuerkauf says, is a lot like inventory management, both art and science. That’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

is oil and gas, and I grew up next to an oil refinery. Witnessing the environmental damage and the contrast between our beautiful nature and our... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

compared the firms' performance over six years. What they found: in the beginning of a relationship, suppliers enjoyed no significant difference in sales, inventory holding and control costs, gross margins,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

institutions and our approaches to managing ourselves will have meaningfully evolved. And in fact, 20 months later we have seen and are seeing rapid acceleration of View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

News Sustainability and Business Models Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Her dissertation research at HBS examined institutional leadership,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

to provide a much better balance between productivity improvements and private profitability gains. Importantly in the current context, policy interventions that raise productivity do not create... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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