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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the CLIMB program and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leadership Principles ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Leadership Principles $1,850 Next... View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting
year, HBS Interns play an important part in driving the Emerson Collective mission. Joanna Lichter, Associate Director of Venture Capital, plays a key role in recruiting HBS students to the MBA Summer Associate program. She shared with us why Emerson Collective... View Details
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
tools that are now being introduced will have a profound impact on the labor market, leading to the eventual elimination of many jobs and the restructuring of many others. The effect will be particularly acute among knowledge... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
research in his industry Arjun Bhandegaonkar Film studio executive Strengthen your analytical skills before pursuing an MBA or other graduate program. I majored in engineering and minored in economics as an undergraduate, but the content of Business Analytics and... View Details
- July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
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Symantec--1982-90
By: Nitin Nohria
As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Communication Technology; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employee Relationship Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Technology Industry; United States
Nohria, Nitin. "Symantec--1982-90." Harvard Business School Case 491-010, July 1990. (Revised August 1995.)
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, money and finance, risk... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
Want employees to think outside the box? Start by taking a good, hard look at how you’re paying them. That’s the implication of new research examining the impact of different compensation structures on employee innovation. While there is endless handwringing about what... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says Harvard Business School... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of colleagues in an online format that was ideal for my schedule. Praveen Jayakumar Medical Director & Co-CMO at Culinary Health Fund Elevate your business View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22
use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. With valid outcome and cost information, managers and clinicians can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
talking about enlisting product users, critics, and experts for a fresh view. He says the question for this tension is: “How do you best sequence the knowledge of others inside and outside the organization to solve the right problem with... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- February 2004 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
As the engineering of state-of-the-art jet engines becomes more and more complex, Pratt & Whitney leaders face major competitive problems. Product development projects are not meeting the cost, quality, and lead-time targets. The leadership develops a design,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Engineering; Cost; Knowledge Management; Time Management; Product Launch; Standards; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work." Harvard Business School Case 604-084, February 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
each other and can create well-rounded business leaders. You May Also Be Interested In Leadership & Management Business Essentials Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society Marketing 94% improved View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
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Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
management and digital marketing tools for entertainment venues and sports teams (largely unused during the pandemic), switched to targeting small- and medium-sized traditional businesses struggling to survive. Fourth Quadrant: Firms... View Details
- 17 Jun 2011
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KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
to take the best ideas from the US fast-food model and adapt them to serve the needs of the Chinese consumer." Initially this involved hiring the right people. For Su this meant Chinese managers who read and spoke the language, who... View Details
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UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage
By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
In October 2002, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) appointed Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a brief, three-month review of the existing evidence on UK competitiveness. The effort was funded jointly by the ESRC and the Department of... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Economics; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Research and Development; Competency and Skills; Investment; Assets; Corporate Strategy; Policy; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; United Kingdom; United States
Porter, Michael E., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage." DTI Economics Paper, May 2003.
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
United States, what were the economic and political advantages of building and managing the canal? A: The Panama Canal provided massive cost savings to intercoastal commerce. Before the Second World War, the vast majority of the cargo... View Details