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01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years working abroad, Dolan settled in Montreal in 1998 and recently became president of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Grushka-Cockayne, that executives should adopt a similar approach when it comes to using probability forecasts of business-critical issues; for example, the likelihood that product demand will increase by a given percentage next quarter.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

respond to local differences. Recently, as at Coke, many companies have moved toward more localization and less standardization. But no matter how they balance localization and standardization, all companies that view global strategy in this way focus on View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

team members received training in various technical crafts—one became a licensed electrician, another a machinist, another learned some carpentry skills. Q: Was this unique? A: Absolutely not. We saw the similar approach repeated... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Cotting House | About

either side of the portico. One bears a sculptured representation of the Cotting family coat of arms: the other, a similar acknowledgment of the Winslow family, Mrs. Cotting’s ancestors. Expressing gratitude for Cotting’s gift, Dean... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

permanent shift in the ratio of part-time workers to full-time workers across the economy. COVID-19 may yield similar changes. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

deadlines and fully answering questions posed therein. This helps ensure participants proceed through the course at a similar pace and can take full advantage of social learning opportunities. In addition to module and assignment... View Details

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader earns trust is similar to how... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Philippe Rival

spades! I have pulled similar stunts for the Normandy Bridge in northern France, the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, and the Rion Antirion Bridge in Greece; all are equally stunning structures. Who is one person from your life that... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

found that 37 percent of Black respondents picked an all-white group if they had to compete for a job, compared to 20 percent if they didn’t. The team confirmed its initial findings through a laboratory experiment that applied a similar... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

developments in artificial intelligence are creating similar shocks to the economy – from new perspectives on value creation and value capture, to radical transformations of business and operating models. This shift not only impacts... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

performance is rewarded with good money. This work led to many insights, but was fundamentally descriptive in nature. Meanwhile, largely in parallel, decision and game theorists typically analyzed what ultra-rational people would (or should) optimally do when... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

a powerful and fitting conclusion to our time at HBS. Here I was, nearly two years later, back in Burden Hall where it all began. The excitement and buzz in the room was just as palpable as it was then. Similar to when we started at... View Details

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Ethan Li

time at HBS—in class and out—is valuable. I love the case study method; it helps me relate my prior experience to future goals. For example, we just had a case about the international expansion of a Japanese business—could a similar... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

and gradually. Carrots work better than sticks — especially with high-priced, hard-to-replace employees. Scenario 3: The Product Or Market Extension M&a The third category is the M&A deal created to extend a company's product line or international reach.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

2020. “We told them all, there’s no issue, you’re all going to be working now through year-end. No layoffs, no nothing,” Moynihan said. Citi and Wells Fargo communicated similar messages to their employees. Marc Benioff, CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

receive government help. The results held even when researchers compared patents that involved similar technology, were filed around the same time, or had a similar number of inventors. In those cases,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

spend more time. “The more time they expect to spend at a landmark, the more they concentrate other Whites around that landmark,” the study says. In a similar fictional-city study, White survey participants were asked to imagine living in... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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