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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

exacerbated by an increasingly transient corporate lifestyle. Maybe it is a materialistic hollowness at the core of American life, or maybe it’s just men behaving badly. Whatever it is, and MacDonald suggests it is all of them, as a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

Each step is crucial. Failure to take any one will put your company on the slippery slope to being a price taker. Step 1: Create customer value. There are two parts to the creation of customer value. You must provide a reason for the customer to do business with you.... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of job quality which... View Details

05 Nov 2014
HBS Seminar

CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

and the Role of Communication” in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study looked at how individual self-serving biases can blur the judgment of decision-makers, who underestimate their inability to be objective. The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

in such a way that it has “hooks” for outside firms to connect (like application programming interfaces for software platforms). Second, it must also be modular enough in design for outsiders to add significant innovations. Third, the company must facilitate easy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
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Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a critical mass of sophisticated production and service activities reside. A clear locational core, combined with selective... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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By: Leslie A. Perlow

There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

where they can and work together with NGOs and governments, recognizing that they have the capacity to jointly enact solutions.” The core expectation that consumers have of brands in any situation, but particularly in a crisis, is that... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

family started asking me about drug issues,” he recalls. “If I had only focused on the algebra and grammar associated with their homework assignments, I’d have missed such a core component of their story, their background, and how it... View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

court is less costly than Chapter 11, creditors may disagree on how the resulting financial windfall should be shared. In that event, obtaining the necessary level of consent may be impossible. Outside of Chapter 11, for example, changing the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

changing in this core aspect of business, what’ is not, and why knowing the difference matters. Participants will leave the session with practical guidelines concerning effective sales hiring, training, and performance management... View Details

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By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

06 Jan 2014
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Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

hospitals teach tutorials and lead clinical rotations, and in that sense are considered faculty. The same notion of an extended faculty could apply to business schools, where the 10,000 might include alumni such as local business leaders, who with suitable oversight... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

2010
Working Paper

Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leadership Development; Research; Science; Attitudes

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14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

responsible for their own safety. Case 1: Inclusive and bilateral communication At ItalGlassesCo, an Italian eyewear producer, attention to employees’ personal and social well-being is one of the company’s core values. Since the early... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

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