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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
system. Best practices include: Pay as well as competitors. There can be exceptions; the need to acquire applies to intangibles as well. Organizations with good reputations may be able to attract talent at a... View Details
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
willing to give it. Several commented that the best source of measurement is from followers. Tan Chin Thuan's suggestion illustrates the challenge nicely when he said "The irony yet sobering measurement of leadership could well be,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This interest in private sector development in Africa is what motivated me to pursue a joint... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
A Smooth Stretch
is a certified yoga instructor, has created a foundation to help spread yoga teaching and practice throughout society, including among at-risk youth. Said Hanna, “I wanted to build a brand that inspires people to be the View Details
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
rebounds and readmissions. Patients experienced unnecessarily long stays and treatment delays.” Driven to find a better way, Nabihah left clinical practice to spend a year with the World Health Organization and the UK Department of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS
Eastern Europe and Latin America.) Notes HBS professor Thomas Piper, who, with HBS professor Steven Wheelwright, is the program’s cochair, “This is an important part of the School’s international outreach.” The program addresses the need for quality MBA programs in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Warren Law Remembered
close to practice in the best tradition of the School and whose kindness, caring, and wit made him very special in the hearts of students and colleagues alike,” said HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. During a teaching... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
we must demonstrate the ways businesses create positive change, and bring our influence to bear on future generations of business leaders. The second aspiration is research in action. As scholars, we strive for impact in the academy, yet we also want our research to... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Economic Forum
Clark took part in three panel discussions: "Strategies for the 21st Century," "Innovating for Success: Best Practice Is Going Global," and "Can We Teach Corporate Responsibility?" He also spoke at the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Noah Brodsky
people make memories, is what makes me happy. I can't walk past a lost tourist without pointing out the way, or let friends dine on anything but the best at my favorite restaurant. It's in my very nature to want to give the finest... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Courtney Behm
them begin to know each other, trust each other, and hear – really hear – each other. They thrive when idiosyncratic is not a dirty adjective, when different points of view are rewarded. In 1999, I left corporate America to found a consulting View Details
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
established offers, while encouraging them to uncover new opportunities for offerings and growth. c. Agility and empowerment . Next, you will learn how to develop decision-support dashboards and guidelines, as well as agile teams, to enable employees to share View Details
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Di Bai
positions at Proctor & Gamble and McKinsey where she could, "learn and apply best practices from established companies." After five years of work, Di wanted more: more View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
at risk of losing them. Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink Mass-market retailers, particularly big-box "category killers," are under critical pressure from online competitors. Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
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Amy Sennett
environment to test ideas “At HLS,” Amy observes, “there’s a constant pushback on your comments; you’re always forced to reevaluate your position. It’s a safe environment, a kind of practice round for policy work, in which you can put a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
professor Robert Simons has been adding to that body of knowledge and practice through an extensive research agenda that has resulted in numerous books, articles, and case studies. Working Knowledge editor Jim Aisner sat down recently... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
controls in all three of the American companies we studied. GE's use of strategic planning systems became the model for companies worldwide, as did Procter & Gamble's use of clear policies and practices (the Procter way) and one-page... View Details