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Kim Chen
Development, and on-campus clubs offered such an opportunity. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? The overall HBS experience has pushed me to define my career goals not solely in terms of industries and verticals but also in terms... View Details
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Laura Arjona
leaders." At the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, Laura worked with the CEO and the management team on a number of strategic and operations projects, including processes for running the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
teamed with Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to present a conference on "mindful leadership," a secular process to explore the roles of self-awareness and self-compassion... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
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“establishing a sense of urgency” — is told by a middle manager who sought to spur change in his company's purchasing process by highlighting its inefficiencies.The manager hired a summer intern to catalogue all the types of gloves being... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
The (B) case reveals that Sharer decided that Amgen should enter the emerging biosimilars business. However, he took the better part of a year to syndicate the decision across the senior team while in parallel investing in some... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Amanda Pratt
were very analytical and process oriented," she says. But there's another side to Amanda, one that wants to explore options and is willing to embrace novelty. Instead of going to a traditional engineering school, she chose a new... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
uncovered these obstacles using a process they refined more than a decade ago called Organizational Fitness Profiling (OFP). OFP helps CEOs or business unit general managers and their top teams assess how... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2013
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The New Rules of E-Commerce
site refreshes. Embrace innovative thinking. Rakuten discovered that its Indonesian customers were hesitant to key in credit-card information due to security concerns. The solution: Mikitani heeded the advice of a local partner to create delivery View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
workforces. But working through this process and profitably growing the combined businesses are arguably much easier tasks when the merging parties are financially stronger. American's bankruptcy reorganization (as well as those of... View Details
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James Reinhart
Reinhart and his team shifted their focus to children’s clothing, they had an epiphany. “We started with men’s and women’s shirts,” Reinhart explained in a TechCrunch interview. “It was a great story but not a great... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
inaccurate and increasingly troublesome. Management is a set of well-known processes that help organizations produce reliable, efficient, and predictable results. Really good management helps us do well what we more or less know how to do... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan The mission of Educate Girls, a nongovernmental organization in Mumbai, is to get 3 million out-of-school girls in India into the classroom and to provide remedial education. To do that they first have to find the girls, which is a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script
makes magic for both sides,” he says, adding that the process of making the movie reflected the collaboration and team effort that Lego play encourages. For Lin, making that magic required a deep dive, from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
renewal. This change process involves disciplined conversations, actions, and associated learning by the senior team, diffusing these learning capabilities to the extended senior leadership team and, over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
by systematically increasing the rigor in the procurement process. Still skeptical, Sophia runs the process of systematically analyzing and comparing the competing firms' bids. This case also describes the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
sites might be beautiful, intuitive, mobile-optimized, and written with simple, straightforward language. And just like TurboTax is upfront that the process might seem like a slog but, don’t worry, we’ll get through it together, one step... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Jeff Nelson
loan quality and “provide a more sustainable process for the entire housing market.” Expanding options, perspectives After two years with Fannie Mae, “the timing was right for the MBA,” says Jeff. “HBS has a top reputation. If I wanted to... View Details
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Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case
performing team member or a looming career decision. AMP provides a unique opportunity to address an important issue head-on. All participants choose one significant challenge as the topic of their Personal Case, which they work on... View Details