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- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat turns into a great injustice. "Hey! How come she got more? That's not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands
deploying resources to drive sustainability initiatives, with the potential for more participants to come to the table and collaborate in the future. I am excited to continue to explore this space and build a career in it, and I... View Details
- June 2017
- Case
Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
In a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and 9 association and nonprofit boards of directors. As CEO of Frontier Communications, a U.S. telecom company with over $25 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Managing People; Networks; Strategy And Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, and Robin Abrahams. "Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive." Harvard Business School Case 417-091, June 2017.
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
collaborate with the CFO to "integrate" strategy into operational planning and budgeting. We have yet to see a CFO resist the effort to make the planning process more strategic and useful for the organization. Q: You write that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
to all industries that are willing to engage in collaborative efforts to upgrade competitiveness (Ketels, 2010). The role of exports in a competitiveness-oriented growth strategy While the competitiveness-oriented approach provides a... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 29 May 2023
- News
Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas
alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries,... View Details
- Web
Tsedal Neeley | About
work worldwide, as well as her patented software simulation on global collaboration . Prior to her academic career, Tsedal spent a decade working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, including... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries
By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche
Complex systems technologies—including “deep tech”—are prone to numerous frictions that stymie commercial development. Yet technologies with these features underpin some of the most valuable industries of the past century. We examine how large, mission-oriented... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Gross, Daniel P., and Maria P. Roche. "Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-027, April 2023. (Revised October 2024.)
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
networks of companies and organizations are emerging, new ways of competing and collaborating are becoming more important. Old boundaries are withering. The traditional widget-making company maximizing its own profit in a nationally... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
rights-based work, where collaboration may matter more than acting alone, an organization's resources would be better used pursuing its mission and developing approximate measures to help it improve, rather than chasing hard proof of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
emeritus with whom she collaborated on a formula for measuring stock risk. "We started going back and forth with ideas over the dinner table one night, then I tried to put them down on paper, and we went back and forth with that." The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- April 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
EMC2: Delivering Customer Centricity
By: Thomas Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This case introduces the concept of customer centricity and traces its development at EMC, the world's leading data storage hardware and information management software company. EMC's customers had historically relied on EMC salespeople to guide them through the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Interpersonal Communication; Customer Relationship Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Salesforce Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet; Information Technology Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas, and Jill Avery. "EMC2: Delivering Customer Centricity." Harvard Business School Case 511-124, April 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
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Forum - U.S. Competitiveness
Edwards . Started 04 Feb 2014 America's Prosperity Depends on Outwitting Our Broken Political System Forum started by Sol Erdman and Lawrence Susskind Nearly every member of Congress has blocked steps that would help their constituents prosper. The answer? Sol Erdman... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
impacts of such initiatives. As a platform for knowledge exchange, networking, and collaboration among experts, policymakers, and stakeholders, Lootah says the Crossroads Forum—now in its fourth year— holds significant potential to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Porter and colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. MOC affiliate institutions and their faculty not only teach the curriculum but collaborate across the network in the area of competitiveness. Apply Now Benefits of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Data Storage - Research Computing Services
location for storing and doing collaborative work on research storage, including HBS and guest user accounts. This is in contrast to home folders, which are accessible only by the account holder. Both home folders and project spaces are... View Details