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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
often it is assumed that with practice and experience, performance improves. That's true on average, but there is a lot of variance. Learning has to be actively managed. Learning depends on the climate you create in the organization.... View Details
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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
matriculated at Harvard University in a variety of ways depending on the degree program you are in. Unfortunately, we do not offer postdoctoral positions or student programs for students at other universities. For further information... View Details
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Zad Chin | MBA
Zad Chin Computer Science/Mathematics Adams 2024 Cohort 5 The productization of a technological innovation is dependent on so many factors such as the culture and governance of a society; this unfortunately causes some promising... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
don't have to make all your own opportunities. There are some that we've made for you. You can depend that they are there. And let's reward the organizations that have really moved forward. “You have to pay it forward. Always. And that's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society
Beth (MBA 1984) and Mike (MBA 1982) Fascitelli, paid tribute to the life of Mr. Whitehead and illustrated the lasting impact of legacy gifts on HBS. As Dean Nitin Nohria said in his remarks, “Very few institutions in the world outlive us. HBS’s future — its success and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
and “integration” to help managers grasp how an organization is an entity made up of so many modular units, and that the ideal structure of that entity depends on its way of adapting to the features of its chosen environment. “Contingency... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
inequity inevitable. For example, an often-cited research finding is that woman can be viewed as competent or as likeable–but not both. True or not, believing it increases FOSO, as competent women face pressures, depending on their life... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
on the general domain R by strengthening independence of irrelevant objects in two ways: in addition to requiring that the chosen allocation should depend only on preferences over the set of available objects (which always includes the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Jon Schechter
anywhere else.” Building leadership through relationships Asked to reflect on what leadership means at HBS, Jon says, “We place it in a very human context. There is no one procedure or prescriptive answer for any problem; resolutions View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
risking arrest. The extent to which the illegal market continues to flourish, says Quelch, depends on how much states charge in taxes, and how much additional recreational demand continues to drive up retail prices—both of which remain to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
managers have risen in power, general managers may be losing some of theirs. A new working paper, Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management, explores several factors that have led CEOs to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
forced to stay too focused on the details, without thorough preparation, without clear goals, without a larger vision, without a sense of purpose, then they are left to be dependent on the daily moods or whims of a boss. Bosses who spend... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
any individual company, it is often better, in the short or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software? The answer to this question may be shifting just as economic and social life becomes dependent upon a common computing infrastructure.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial ingredients in a modern economy, where prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
CEO of the Enterprise Foundation, a nationwide housing and community development nonprofit organization. Harvey explains that exorbitant housing costs encourage young, professional workers to look elsewhere for jobs, threatening the continued vitality of local... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
around an “insert and mediate” strategy. Typically, Wu writes, insert and mediate works best when the new entrant “can offer something to both sides”—an example being Sun Microsystems’ development of Java. 4. The two layers that run the show As in society, technology... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
to take hold. Do you think these changes are a step in the right direction? It depends on how the DNI role plays out. I see three possible outcomes — two bad and one good. One possibility is that we give in to the temptation to centralize... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed
dependent on a meager income from the land. Our school was a seven-kilometer walk in each direction. With little food, it was difficult to have the energy to walk that distance every day. During the monsoon floods, we wore a towel-like... View Details