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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
vacation, or a long vacation. I always joke. I mean, how many people do you know that have taken a long vacation? Not only does that not really exist, especially in American work culture, now we've tried to solve that View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
management consulting and technical problem solving for industry. In 1949, ADL hired John Magee (MBA 6/'48) to help it expand into the new field of "operations research"; during decades of subsequent service... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
purpose companies have the potential to produce positive IRRs. However, because of the unique problem of exit that these companies seem to exhibit, their ability to provide market rates of return as an asset class are limited. A number of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
Managers are oriented to process, while leaders are attuned to substance. Process is concerned with establishing procedures for solving problems, while substance deals directly with the problems at hand.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
laws to protect individuals if their information becomes known: Their jobs have to be protected; their health insurance has to be protected. That's the only way to solve this problem and make people feel... View Details
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
newly learned data science skills such as coding in python, using Jupyter notebooks, and applying unsupervised machine learning technics, all of which I did not know prior to this program, to help solve a real-world View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
the early technical challenges associated with napalm were solved by experimentation under the guidance of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), created to coordinate scientific research into the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
opportunities for new and creative concepts. Related to this, the consumer need for convenience will continue to explode and retailers will need to find solutions that solve problems for time-starved... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the WeChat ecosystem. The biggest and best and most inspiring tech companies are not just from Silicon Valley, they're coming from everywhere and they're being inspired by local problems that are getting View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
come to call "PTO"—because at the core, when people work together to create "predictable time off," people, teams, and ultimately the organization all stand to benefit. To be clear, PTO won't solve all your problems.... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- Web
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship - Blog - Business & Environment
cohort of similarly passionate and talented MBA students who are dedicated to working on the climate challenge. - Gaby Co Seteng I really appreciate how the ClimateCAP fellowship is focused on supporting a cohort of students all interested in the space, but pursuing... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
seats in which you now sit. Our incredible faculty taught them—and you—to engage in Active Listening , to keep an open mind, to understand and debate opposing viewpoints, and to build on each other’s ideas. Their time at Harvard Business School showed them—and you—how... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-090 Brandon Fogg must solve two seemingly unrelated problems in his management of creative R&D professionals. First, despite having hired brilliant research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
of this caliber and level of ambition are rare. Even when their first ideas don’t pan out perfectly, they figure out a way to survive and thrive. I should have listened to our own assessment of Peter and his ability to solve View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers will have to make View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the United States, this tension is symbolized by the proverbial conflicts between Wall Street and Main Street.” For HBS professors to be able to contribute to solving the global economic crisis, they must think beyond the system that... View Details