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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on performance improvement. We find no evidence that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
for their unique capabilities and operating in a coordinated manner. This collaborative model demands that firms develop different skills, yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop these abilities. Based on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
LEAD sessions, left the training feeling engaged and more capable of addressing identity issues. “Stephanie created a comfortable environment that allowed us to openly share our thoughts and feelings on the topic of diversity, which is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
expert who has studied Toyota, explains: “The Japanese are very good at two things that are key to success in the auto industry: refreshing their products, and having the flexibility in their factories to do that quickly and economically. These are essential View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
capabilities that can be studied via the algorithmic and computational properties of the problems they are meant to solve and the efficiency and reliability by which they search a solution space. It points to several new components of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side). Going all the way back to the mid-1980s, the Chinese government has been mapping a pathway for the country to become a modern economy possessing core technological View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
the steps she took while at HBS to strengthen her technical capabilities and how it led to the career path she’s on today. When did you first become interested in tech and decide to pursue a position as a software engineer? While I was at... View Details
- 14 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What I Learned at SVMP
what society deemed me capable of. I began to think of bigger and brighter ideas. I didn’t have an epiphany, but I did leave with a sense of forging my own path and digging deeper into my passions. HBS and SVMP showed me that if I could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the rest of the company chugs along, generating revenue. “Our thinking and our capabilities are just now getting to that point.” (courtesy Anne Bonaparte) “Why are the bad guys so successful? In part because they trade information with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
objectives: To enable students to get things done successfully. To understand the risks, trade-offs, and constraints leaders face when tasked with achieving results under conditions where they have limited skills, time, and resources available. To develop the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
schools and peak the interest of what may become a "Moneyball Generation" of managers and analysts who want to divine and track new measures that explain bottom line performance and provide a competitive edge. They ask whether we are on the verge of an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
represents a capability which is difficult to replicate." Several did suggest potential problems, however, in using speed to preempt the fruits of intellectual property. John Rudd comments, "The practice mentioned by Fox... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Video Management Policy | About
capabilities and are properly trained in system use and playback policies. In each case where video is accessed, the individual accessing the system shall keep an appropriately detailed record including name, access date, time, purpose,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
confronting today and the skills and capabilities leaders will need to effectively address those problems. From there we can think about the curricula, research agendas, and questions arising from that. It’s worth pointing out that a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
around these services, emphasizing the relevancy of these tools to people’s daily professional life. The Clubs and Associations Committee, chaired by Kathleen Jackson, MBA 1986, worked closely with the School to identify a vendor capable... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
of the book, in discussing the importance of self-knowledge, it is posited that judgment capability (my italics) is a function of experience. At the risk of oversimplification, according to the authors, good judgment is characterized as a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
at least ten years for the accumulation of sufficient experience), simulations (speeding up the process a bit), and formal education. But most importantly of all, they involve the employment of "knowledge coaches" capable of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
competition. They do so by initially differentiating themselves to develop distinctive capabilities, but subsequently integrate these capabilities with those of the core units. At the corporate level, the new units demonstrate their value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne