Capability - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2013
News

Alex Popa, MBA 2007

prime minister’s cabinet before coming to HBS. “Giving shouldn’t be about age,” Popa insists. “It should be about capability and what really matters.” His fellowship gift—to support MBA students with a strong interest in genomic research,... View Details

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

pledge to take one additional step beyond their current activities to strengthen the capabilities and business prospects of domestic enterprises. For example, they could promise to: Add a mentorship program in which executives advise... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

situations. More specifically, it examines how the exigencies of intense turbulence act as crucibles in which ordinary people (and their teams) make themselves capable of doing extraordinary things—first, internally, and then, in terms of... View Details

03 Nov 2008
HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

capable of producing 40 million gallons a year can be built for an initial cost of between $55 million and $60 million. In 2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy

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Systems Leadership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

conventional management playbooks. Can a systems approach offer a more tangible way of making interdependencies, assumptions, and relationships visible and actionable? How do leaders collaborate successfully at scale in low-authority, high-conflict contexts? What... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Allston

better. Innovation and technology are clearly going to be an essential part of that future,” says Nunnelly, who most recently served as Secretary of the Office of Technology Services and Security for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. “The MS/MBA program will tap into... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Farming for Fuel

protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group’s president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002 to launch the project. A feasibility study shows that an ethanol plant capable of producing 40 million gallons a year... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

rather than problems with women's capabilities and commitment. The following sections explore these widely held beliefs about women's investment in, commitment to, and capability to run substantial... View Details

Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart

Portrait Project

Aditya Dhanrajani

to inspire them to build. I will build, for I am capable and have been given the opportunity to do so. And I want to build that cardboard car again...but this time in green. View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam

risks that would draw on "the government's unique strengths as a risk manager without short-circuiting either the essential capabilities or the relentless discipline of the private market." View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
News

New Releases

in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, challenging the widely held view that firms tend to emphasize either product or process innovation, depending upon their stage of development. Rather, Pisano argues, product and process development View Details

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

political will to push for alternative energy sources. Yet even in the midst of gridlock in Washington, economic anxiety around the world, and government liquidity crises in Europe, technology marched on, seemingly impervious to global events. Technology companies with... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

investment. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ships_qje_2014.pdf Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— Architectural View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

Area. We interpret this growth as a trend to coagglomeration in invention across technologies, and we explore different dimensions of this trend. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50818 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

on. Managers can understand how to think about the list of institutions and a framework of enumerating them. Q: You describe "emerging giants" as "a small but growing set of companies that have built world-class capabilities to challenge... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers

home and support system to move to a new country, on your own, to take on the challenge of a rigorous education. International students have proven themselves capable of thriving in strenuous new settings, and any employer should be eager... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

the impact investment sector. Also includes the ImpactSpace database that includes information on and investors and over 4,000 impact investment deals Preqin - profiles and screening capability for socially... View Details

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In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors

anywhere." Our participants all have become much more capable of interacting and collaborating via online tools. Similarly, here at HBS, we have had to innovate rapidly to shift to virtual programs, and along the way, we have learned a... View Details

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Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Organizational Health 5.01: Build and Foster Community and Culture Across HBS IT (completed) 5.02: IT Governance 5.03: IT Management & Leadership Capabilities (completed) More about each initiative (login required) View Details

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