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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
wings on them." Forty percent or more of the funds for DoD aircraft are spent on electronics equipment. It has not been uncommon for weapon programs to take ten or more years to design, develop, produce, and deploy initial operationally View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
and Heskett are working on a book, tentatively titled Out in Front: Building High Capability Service Organizations, to be published later this year. Professor W. Earl Sasser, Jr., joined them in writing Service-Profit Chain Management,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Hollywood Backstory
Armbruster Photo courtesy of Michael Armbruster While Hollywood is more than capable of glorifying the cardinal sins, it's also adroit at depicting our shortcomings as human beings. Good protagonists in stories (and in life) think,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
and alternative energy development. China is capable of steady growth over the coming years and will continue to be a key component of GE's global strategy, he added, provoking a question from one audience member regarding the propriety... View Details
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Rob Humble
her home state this summer when Rob assumes a corporate-finance internship with Celanese, a Texas petroleum derivatives chemicals company. "I've been tactical in my work so far," Rob reflects. "One way to increase my business acumen is to enhance my... View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
capabilities to adapt, making them ideal partners for HBS and Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). Furthermore, for institutions like HBS and HBSP, one of the major worries about engaging in activities in this part of the world is... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
determining who is going to be the likely winner here," he says. "Some organizations may have the capability to integrate patient data, but may not have enough credibility with the consumer. And some may not have the motivation... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
negotiators believe they are capable of distinguishing between situations in which they can safely rely on intuition from those that require more careful thought—but often they are wrong. In fact, most of us trust our intuition more than... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
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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: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) (completed) 5.02: IT Governance 5.03: IT Management & Leadership Capabilities (completed) More about each initiative (login required) View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
the world makes all the difference in what we are each capable of. And by default, many of us approach it with a fixed perspective that limits us in endless ways. Breaking that [habit] changes our ability to achieve what matters most to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
three core capabilities that distinguish what they call "the individualized corporation": the ability to inspire individual creativity and initiative; the ability to link pockets of expertise and entrepreneurial activity to embed learning... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
AI’s capabilities to help solve business problems, particularly in parts of the world with fewer resources and less access to technology. “The fact that generative AI was a little over a year old, and we could use it to advise several... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Header Global Reach Global Reach: Quote Businessmen and governments in nearly all countries have recognized the need for capable administrators, trained to act in a complex, fast-changing, and increasingly interdependent world, as the... View Details
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Mobility Policy | About
helper motor, or a non-pedal bicycle which has a motor, with a cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty (50) cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission, and which is capable of a maximum speed of no more than thirty (30) miles per hour... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
"may be the Dragon, a common icon in Asia that combines the disparate and frequently beneficent attributes of lesser beings into one of extraordinary capability and power. In the best companies, the whole is truly the sum of several... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
propositions that lead customers to do more business and at higher margins with the company Innovation and excellence in products, services, and processes The capabilities and alignment of employees and systems that enhance important... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's environment holds the potential for these three forces to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace