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the Business Environment," which focused on external influences affecting business enterprises, particularly political, demographic, cultural, and technological shifts in society at large. Organizational Development in the Inner City In... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
impact does not occur as expected, due to evidence risk, external risk, stakeholder participation/drop-off risk, efficiency risk, execution risk, alignment risk, endurance risk, or unexpected impact risk. View Details
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
critical performance variables and design management control systems to track progress in achieving key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify various types of internal and external risks and implement internal... View Details
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Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership - Alumni
Promoting and identifying programming and educational offerings, leveraging HBS resources and access; Activating the HBS network for board opportunities that can benefit the HBS alumni community. By leveraging the global HBS network and strategic View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
connect with the School and with students. A front-row view to the next set of game-changing companies is also a plus! While many initiatives are happening on campus, HBS is also reaching outward to deepen its connection to alums. View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
circle the wagons against an external threat. But sometimes it makes sense for a company to ally itself with regulators or advocates against the competitors. While managers must remain on guard against undue pessimism and passivity in... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
program—some focus more on the law and its effects on how business is conducted, while others approach their topics from a business-first standpoint, analyzing how businesses are impacted by the positive or negative externalities of the... View Details
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Digital Operations - Course Catalog
technologies to synchronize workflows, systems, and data across internal and external partners. Assess how automation, AI, and data analytics transform operations by enabling predictive decision-making, intelligent automation, and... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
bureau whose members would include alumni qualified to speak on timely topics. It was also recommended that clubs identify information technology officers, who would tackle both internal and external technical functions for their club.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
Navigating this road is very challenging, because it forces us to understand ourselves and screen out many of the external forces that profoundly impact how we think about our careers and our lives. This approach takes courage and hard... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product lines.... View Details
- 20 Mar 2017
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Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Gerdeman: Can you touch on the implications user innovation has on competition? Lakhani: In many ways, what the research is showing is that companies can reliably work with external sources of innovation—users, communities, even... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Complicated Firms Authors:Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
design ("what we do") and its identity ("who we are") is often seen as a key to strong performance. But maintaining a tight fit between design and identity is difficult when a profound external shock forces an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
oversee a team of about 35 people; we also engage with a number of external agencies for support, depending on our needs. The foundation hosts roughly 250 chefs annually, so we essentially have a restaurant operation in the house. At the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
protagonists in their research, the School is matching the generous financial support of Alfus and C200. The creation of the fund was announced last October at C200's fifteenth anniversary celebration in Chicago, which was attended by Senior Associate Dean for View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
used in the class discussion (like WTP, “meet” products, and “friend” products), much of it slipped by without my understanding, but I was interested to learn later that small teams in the class were using these concepts to help organizations (including HBS’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
Cooper I am often asked, “What does the Alumni Board do?” HBS professor Mal Salter, senior associate dean for External Relations, describes us as a “working board.” Our forty-plus members — past and present volunteers and active alumni... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
them immediately? Many leaders strive for such a high degree of perfection that they are unwilling to admit mistakes. They feel tremendous external pressure to be perfect, but in reality they are far more successful when they are... View Details