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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
variation in the use of in-house rather than independent advertising agencies by U.S. advertisers. While the vast majority of large advertisers employ outside agencies, it comes as a surprise to find that when advertisers of all sizes are considered, about half View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
complex political environment; and 3) Manage a team: Forge a high-performing "we" out of all the "I"s who report to you. Packed with compelling stories and practical guidance, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
his partners began reviewing the company's inventions. The first opportunity they uncovered was Advanced Workstation Products (AWP). Xerox's high-end printers actually were complex computer systems that contained extensive networking... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
philanthropy, later incorporating such ideas into their organizational vision and values. Mexico's Bimbo Group provides a clear example; this world leader in the food industry, a multinational corporation with operations in 16 countries,... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
the fraught (discussing the delicate relationships between government, technology, and privacy in the region). I am engaging now, hopefully and exploratively, and am learning how to figure out what being Asian can mean to me here, and now. Being Asian is View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
micro-foundations for formulating and solving strategic problems. It shows how the languages and disciplines of theoretical computer science, “artificial intelligence,” and computational complexity theory can be used to devise a set of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations can reduce competition among merging hospitals for inclusion in insurers' networks, leading to higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996 to 2012, we find support that this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
aren’t real purple dogs.” That is what Numenta is after, says Dubinsky: recreating human intelligence by first understanding the complex way that humans learn—literally, the biological principles that guide our brains—and then translating... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
the startup struggles with various operational and cultural organizational tensions. These challenges are described from the perspective of the founders and through the eyes of Deepika Thakur, one of the early employees. By 2014, in order... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
embedded. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect. Architectural capabilities provide managers with the ability to see a complex technical system in an abstract way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership by Amy Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey (Emerald Group Publishing) Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Road Bill Gates may have been selected as the most influential business leader, but the internal combustion engine beats Windows as an operating system by a mile - the automobile rules as the most significant consumer product of the last... View Details