Continuous Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows Microsoft's Windows 7 View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

04 May 2020
Blog Post

6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

they view you and whether your narrative sounds true to who you are. Start brainstorming about potential recommenders and continue to develop your rapport with them because their support can go a long way in... View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

course, visit the HBS Executive Education site . For more information about a published case, click its title. CVS currently in development Founded in 1963, CVS Health (CVS) was the leading drugstore chain in the United States.... View Details

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Faculty and Research - Alumni

scholarship that ensures the School’s continued educational excellence and its impact on business and society. Watch more videos about faculty members' research activities The Insights we need to Educate Leaders Six faculty members... View Details

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Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement change, drawing upon a range of approaches for improving healthcare delivery, including the value-based health care framework, continuous... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

place by great Harvard Business School deans and professors and by generations of outstanding students such as those here with us today," he noted. "Thank you, Dean Clark, for giving my family this chance to continue our strong ties to... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

2009
Working Paper

Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

By: Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld

Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy

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17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order to be able to carry out on a large scale all the things implied by Wood's stories." 8 Land... View Details

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

paying a stream of medical bills. My aversion to health care growing up, juxtaposed by the cost-free, quality care I received later in life as a US citizen, is why I want to work towards improving the health care system. I studied Biology in undergrad and View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to overproduce and create such... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

initiative and make the most of it. My personal experience During the first semester of my EC (second) year, I continued to work part-time at the company with which I interned over the summer. Once that commitment ended at year-end, I was... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Introduction to Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business (CLIMB) Our Most Comprehensive Offering 5 pre-set courses + 2 electives + a capstone project. Choose from the New Leader or Experienced Leader learning paths. 100% online View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

on August 20, 2019 outside Boston, Massachusetts. His energy and leadership kept HBS at the forefront of business education and laid a foundation of intellectual growth and development on which the School View Details

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar asked a partner at a top consulting firm whether he would... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

relentlessly communicate, communicate, communicate. This is to avoid rumors developing that muddy the waters. Collaboration. This is a time for you to call on the resources, the capabilities of all of your employees, all of your team... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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