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Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

world. Giving to HBS has a ripple effect that extends far beyond the campus—helping the School develop leaders and generate knowledge that make the world a better place. Collectively, gifts of every size sustain our excellence in teaching... View Details

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical device engineer working on products for Operating Rooms and Intensive Care Units. I came to school passionate about access... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

of directors, the family council and the family assembly generally are more effective forums for shareholders for setting direction and creating policies. Fundamental to the effective governance of these complicated systems is the proper... View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

to a well-known and admired model of industrial organization—General Motors. We will also compare the theoretical model to a much-admired high-technology firm, Hewlett-Packard. Finally we will propose a... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

and said, listen, the teachers are saying they do not want to go back to school across the entire district unless there are metal detectors in every school and we don't have the funds to do that. Can you dip into your emergency funds for city council and can you... View Details

10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established markets, aspiring providers of new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

decades, helped managers, management scholars, and consultants diagnose and solve the problems besetting companies large and small. Explaining the case studies that define the practice, he discusses how the model has been refined and... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

focused on serving niches rather than being generalists. So a company that in the past produced a specific auto part now makse one component of that part, and then pasess it on to another supplier in a different country for additional... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

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2.4 Disciplinary Process - MBA

disciplinary process as circumstances require. Students should familiarize themselves with the General Statement of Conduct in addition to the process described below. Jurisdiction Allegations of minor... View Details

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

decades. Whether you adopt the one-leader model for your own family enterprise, as RBS has done, or whether you build a team of leaders, you still need to design, structure, and allocate all the necessary leadership roles. Why? Because... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Creation at Medtronic Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to the Architect Model Creating Value as an Organization Organizational Design Levers: The Conditions Organizational Design Levers: The Components Featured Exercises View Details

09 Jan 2020
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Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

collision between these two different operating models and ways of solving a consumer problem. On the one hand, you have a more traditional firm with traditional human resource management. In the other model, you have software solving... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Professionals General Managers Consultants and Investors Develop a powerful, value-based strategy to achieve greater success for your team and organization. Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

01 Jun 2024
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Redefining How Businesses Operate

In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

making a generous gift to the School to facilitate the construction of a new MBA campus center, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000. The gift extends long-standing, close ties between the Spangler family and HBS. Both Dick... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

screens and lenses a company uses to identify and shape sustaining innovations. Companies frustrated by an inability to create new growth shouldn't conclude that they aren't generating enough good ideas. The problem doesn't lie in their... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

products. After presenting empirical support for our claims of an evolving marketplace, we discuss the tradeoffs associated with reshaping the ODA for the 21st century. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55381 in press Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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