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Action Plan - Advancing Racial Equity

are focused on learning from and alongside others. Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress We are taking three steps to hold ourselves accountable for making progress both in the short term and over the long run.... View Details

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

online class cards that provide a detailed profile of each student, including a photo, name pronunciation, educational background, work experience, demographic data, and extracurricular interests. Instructors study these profiles before the start of the View Details

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

(iStockphoto/visualspace) When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells how the company’s ad algorithm—the heart of its financial success—was revamped, here’s what he says: One Friday afternoon in May 2002, (company co-founder) Larry Page was playing around on the Google... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

that of Gaetan, who said, “we can prepare to be prepared we should stimulate the use of less debt and more equity and therefore accept a lower return or otherwise fully accept regular destruction of businesses, unemployment, etc ” Jan was more specific: “In View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Mar 2022
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5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

drip, drip of steady investment that pays off in gargantuan terms down the road.” The leader needs to develop the right mindset, the willingness to forego short-term profit to build a long-term business that pays back to society. “I’d be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2012
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Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

Keywords: by R. Gibbons & R. Henderson

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The American Chief Executive from 1850 to 2000

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Richard S. Tedlow's research explores changes in the leadership strategies, styles, and backgrounds of corporate chief executive officers in the United States over the past century and a half. This project has both a qualitative and a quantitative component. The... View Details

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When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat

Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments

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April 2021
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HEAD vs. LEAD: Disruptions Originating at the High- vs. Low-End of the Market

By: Elie Ofek, Olivier Toubia and Didier Toubia

Twenty five years after it was initially proposed, Clay Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation continues to be a major reference for entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and investors. However, the term “disruptive innovation” is often used in ways and contexts... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry; New Product Management; Targeting; Disruptive Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Product; Management; Innovation Strategy; Technology

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06 Dec 2022
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Elizabeth Lyons, UC San Diego

28 Feb 2018
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Kartik Hosanagar, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

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1.4.4 Elective Curriculum (EC) - MBA

required of all MBA students as described in the Attendance Policy . Kickoff At the start of Term 3, the EC program begins with a required day of orientation and re-engagement. Programming may include a Welcome session with the Dean,... View Details

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Request the Data - Leadership

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16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

competing in a distinctive way. Ironically, companies today define competition involving the Internet almost entirely in terms of operational effectiveness. Believing that no sustainable advantages exist, they seek speed and agility,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

07 Jul 2021
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Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

sustainability. He sounded great! He was well versed in the vocabulary and actions of the fight to save the environment, using terms like “clean energy” and “going green,” and discussed how his company was committed to sustainability... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

13 May 2024
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Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

randomly provided text-and-image search refinement suggestions to only half of roughly 500,000 users, chosen randomly. A customer in the test group searching for the general term “headphones” would receive refinement suggestions, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail

19 Apr 2010
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The History of Beauty

successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

the continuation of some of the Star Wars saga, including the latest, Ashoka, because it features a female, as the lead who is dauntless and just amazing in multiple skills in terms of her brains and her brawn. Scott O'Neil (MBA 1998):... View Details

14 Sep 2021
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Top 5 Myths About HBS

on? We have this belief that all of us are still working on getting better at some things. So who are the people that have worked closely enough with you that they can share those examples with us? “It is impossible to prepare for your HBS interview” Chad: I would say... View Details

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