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- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “The psychology is powerful. That feeling of being in first or last place affects our thoughts, emotions, and behavior.” Although the research focuses on aircraft design, its findings... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
profitable and successful companies I know are rigorous about driving simplicity and driving out complexity ." Charles Green continues the discussion by suggesting,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
economic and organizational sociology relevant to entrepreneurship, and identify significant gaps in that literature. Strategic Networks and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Nikki Skovran
require new skills, leading Nikki to business school. “Best decision I ever made.” Nikki pursued her MBA options with the same rigor she had applied to her criminal cases. Even in the application process, HBS stood out. “All the other... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Instead, virtual team learning behaviors are likely to be shaped by boundaries that delimit timely access to relevant knowledge and skill. In conclusion, we discuss implications for future virtual team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
CSO should be placed on the executive team because the mere presence of the CSO at the C-suite table keeps sustainability on the agenda. It's important to articulate a compelling business case for such efforts and to make the strategy... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
Xerox, IBM, and Kodak. These industrial giants are trying to combine their industrial heritage with products, services, and business practices more closely associated with the new economy. Their basic... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
and projector into the churches, community centers, and schools of Harlem to show residents the goods and services available on the Internet. "We're trying to show them... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
MIT and a conflict resolution program at Mercy Corps), McGinn and her colleagues laid the foundation for Girls Arise, expanding and strengthening it through View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- Student-Profile
Hummy Song
sure I would maintain practical relevance and significance vis-à-vis the health care field. I felt that the Health Policy Management program would provide the perfect environment to combine View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. "It's a good TOM case in that it includes hard numbers and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Why Career Switchers Make a Great Hire
transferable skills, and are driven to be strong candidate in their target field. Here's why you should consider hiring them: 1) Career Switchers can round out a team by adding relevant experience from their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
worked on a manufacturing project in this one. He knew other Ernst & Young teams had, however, so he searched the electronic knowledge management repository for relevant knowledge. For help with the sales process, he found View Details
- Blog
Reinventing the GMP Experience
Attending a program at Harvard Business School Executive Education requires stepping away from responsibilities—both in the office and at home—to fully immerse yourself in the learning experience. Recognizing that this can be particularly... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
former product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science... View Details
- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
and rigorous support, exceptional social entrepreneurs, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place. We find, fund and support... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
teams to focus on specific business problems, which often means their research is not shared externally. In academia, a growing set of economists are now teaching at business schools, which have been increasing their course offerings View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
financial incentives. A final question that we believe is of utmost importance but that has not attracted much attention thus far (at least among academics) is: What are the drivers of adoption of OSS? Aside from its empirical relevance... View Details