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- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
that the emergence of the latter offers a great learning opportunity. For example, Jed Bullard maintains that "[onsite] MBA programs MUST study, embrace, and implement their own versions of e-learning programs, if only to remain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
this course were created in and designed to be completed in Microsoft Excel. Using a desktop app version of Microsoft Excel (e.g., Microsoft Office Home 2024 or Microsoft 365) on a laptop or desktop computer will likely provide the best... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
other, along certain dimensions they are collaborating” So why would Amazon release a version of its Kindle Reader on Apple's iPad, allowing users to access its library of exclusive digital books? "Doesn't that diminish interest in the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
and government-organized rescue. The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship Authors:Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (forthcoming). (Earlier View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
Some also claim that enforcing the individual mandate is not feasible, but Switzerland's 97 percent enrollment rate for its version of the individual mandate indicates that it's possible. The Swiss achieve this compliance through... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
potential customer population when pricing at a level that, under the condition, can be shown to be an upper bound for a rational price choice for the firm irrespective of the prices chosen by its competitors. We show that under a somewhat stronger, but still broadly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
at work and in how much time they devote to insiders vs. outsiders. We analyze the correlation between time use, managerial effort, quality of governance, and firm performance and interpret the empirical findings within two versions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
ways of promoting them. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806172 The STAR Schools Initiative at the San Francisco Unified School District Public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
vast army of quits each year in the US, you have to ask yourself whether a version of this occurs for many junior employees in organizations working primarily out of offices. Is concierge management, for want of a better term, one answer... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
According to Mok Tuck Sung (who is an MD), "Making certification necessary for managers is to narrow our thinking and take a step backward...resulting in a decline in entrepreneurial spirit." Frederick Bartlett offered his View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
Google ended its service to China, China would respond by creating its own version of Google." Jack Carpenter advised, "If an organization is serious about doing business in China, it must 'ride out' all government restrictions.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
in selling upgraded versions of its products to customers eager for more features. But beyond that, said Glaser, "the business environment has changed completely, since the capital markets no longer subsidize a free ride for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Newtown, versions of this process had been put into practice in those locations. My mayor wasn’t inclined in that direction, however. He felt that when money went into foundations (which are the epitome of HBS Professor Howard Stevenson’s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
different versions of their applications for each social networking site. Facebook's managers had to decide how to respond to OpenSocial. Should they join the initiative or keep Facebook Platform proprietary and seek further... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
work. The case forces the student to choose among the four orders, given limited capacity available, other business likely to come along, and the requirements of each order. The case is an updated version of Fabtek (A). Purchase the case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
bit, she’ll get back to the longer version of her morning routine, for example. “See that Harvard rocking chair behind me?” she asks. “When I’m done exercising, I make myself a pot of tea, and I just sit there. I look at the gorgeous... View Details
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
an associate professor at University of Lausanne, studied 3,025 US founders from 2005 to 2012 and their 1,747 startups in the biotechnology and medical device sectors during previous economic downturns. Their research was conducted before COVID-19 came knocking this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
broad range of perspectives. Let me also add that smaller corporations stand to benefit as much or more than their larger counterparts who likely have had some experience in managing change and organizational renewal. Finally, we have also developed our senior teams... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
science or treatments. Working in the ER at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital in New York City—which was dubbed “the epicenter,” I got to see the progression of the virus. We went from “This is just a bad version of the flu;... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Microsoft's online advertising business, began steering the company on a dramatically new course last year. In September 2013, Acxiom unveiled the beta version of a free website called AbouttheData.com, which gives individual consumers an... View Details