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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for traditional firms looking to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
innovation, which is our field of specialty, proved a great way to help us do just that." Christensen, Horn, and Johnson recently teamed up via e-mail to answer a few questions from HBS Working Knowledge on the best paths to better... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Secret Life of Supply Chains
however, all the industries that comprised that sector or how many jobs it contained. Two years ago, she teamed with Mercedes Delgado, professor at Copenhagen Business School and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
technology helps users combat mental health disorders by relaxing, meditating, and completing other mind-calming exercises. Competitors include meQuilibrium, Headspace, Big Health, and myStrength. The research team conducted an eight-week... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Anand Piramal and his team sought to "democratize healthcare" in India through the development of a new service delivery model. If Henry Ford could build and deliver cars to everyone in the United... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998) arrived at McDonald’s in 2014 as vice president of strategy and insights, she asked her team about the most common requests... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Frei No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info In this session, Professor Frances Frei reinvents the playbook for how to lead change—with a provocative approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence.... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
long tail! Carl Størmer: There's an interesting question, too, about whether the seeds for your jump to the next S-curve are there in your past work, and how you might find and build on that. If you study Milestones, an album Miles made... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
with team projects and experiential learning. Training might come initially through the collective work of multiple business schools, with cohorts of alumni who receive a short dose of either functional knowledge or research skills or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
and drainage system, several inches of growing medium, and a variety of hardy plants (see diagram above). The extra layers create a thermal blanket that keeps a building cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. In addition to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
benefits from a few tweaks to the format. With an added emphasis on the foundational, teamwork-based skills used throughout FIELD, the first module also incorporates a full day of exercises focused on the art of negotiation. The second module, centered on global... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
so you can track its impact and make adjustments as needed. By starting with a single, well-chosen practice and getting the team to consistently execute it, you can begin to shift mindsets and gradually View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
specific tasks, ranging from building a catapult to safely launch an uncooked egg to filming a music video, in just over two hours. After each task, the teams huddled to discuss what they had learned. The... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
all the quests earns the title of Questmaster—something that not even Ellis has accomplished. And that’s not the point, he says: “Having a team that fails over and over again together on the way to success is really valuable, because the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
HBS. From there he landed in Johannesburg, where he’s been based for more than two decades. His message: that honest, personal stories can go a long way in instilling values and bringing teams together. His work runs the gamut from... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Coach for Life
senior lecturer Scott Snook and Bradley Lawrence (MBA 2013), explores how Hurley builds his powerhouse Friars—five-time national champions—in Jersey City, one of the poorest communities in New Jersey, at a school that has no gym and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
put students through an iterative business-development cycle on an accelerated basis. The FIELD faculty team worked closely with the heads of the other 10 required first-year courses to find points of synergy. Specific FIELD assignments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
centers. We've raised $500,000 through private angels and grants from the government of India and the NIH in the United States. What's been an important move that you've made? Building the core team has been... View Details