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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
to be excessively positive or excessively negative, depending on the company’s current fortunes. “For the last two years there’s been enormous enthusiasm in the classroom,” he observes. “There’s still some skepticism around the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
(18th PMD), noting that "the club depends on a solid core team of people." As part of the club's ongoing effort to expand its social enterprise agenda, Melissa T. Williams (MBA '95) and Ernest A. Blackwelder (MBA '88) spearhead the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
same brand is offered in different countries with a different product formulation. Depending on the country, people usually wash clothes with hot or cold water, so the product formulation needs to be adapted, he said. Idiosyncratic... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
role of your suppliers’ resources? End users are paranoid about being left with customized code that they are highly dependent upon and no one to turn to if that supplier somehow disappears or goes out of business. Credibility is... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian and Chinese names in cities and firms dependent upon the program relative to their peers. Most specifications find limited effects for native SE employment or patenting.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
Lye found that coach-team matches do indeed affect team performance. In other words, a winning record was dependent on the degree of match between coach and team. The research provided two important takeaways, which we can see reflected... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
network will have to spend time familiarizing viewers with its geography and culture. Early impressions, meanwhile, have been overshadowed by fears of terrorism and the anti-gay backlash. If NBC is going to be successful, it may depend on... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
out of the rut." 45 While ARD started out with an uneven performance, suffering some initial losses, it showed consistent gains by 1955. "We cannot depend safely for an indefinite time on the expansion of our old big industries alone,"... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
effects—wherein the value of a service is dependent on the number of people using it. Case in point: Amazon.com's attempt to enter the online auction business failed because eBay already had such a strong, ever-growing base of sellers,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association
Lee (MBA 2025), Chief Financial Officer "Throughout my time in the military and now at HBS, I’ve come to realize that the legacy I leave behind depends on the impact I have on others. As a female veteran—representing just 1% of our... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration
(and already does) require climate knowledge. Sometimes progress is dependent on raising awareness of teaching materials; sometimes it is finding that open space to fit new teaching materials into a course; sometimes it’s about a new... View Details
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Transitions - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
transition may vary significantly depending on instructor style, the inherent logic of the discussion flow, and the duration, complexity, and degree of consensus achieved in the preceding discussion segment. In crafting the transition,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
effectiveness. Organized in two sections, the book opens with an examination of leadership and change and then looks at how successful managerial work today is less concerned with wielding power over others than it is with coping with View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
supply chain, for business strategy, and for the ways in which firms work with stakeholders. In fact, economic prosperity and growth depend to a large degree on the health of our ecosystem, and our goal is to make this as self-evident as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
photography and reporting by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. There’s a common thread among the stories of this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor: every one of them answered a daunting challenge with an entrepreneurial solution.... View Details
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Nigerian instant noodle company, Tolaram Industries, which built its own transportation system and power plants to support its operations without having to depend on the unreliable municipal power grid. “They took noodles, and they... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
to implement its strategy more effectively," Beer remembers. He and Eisenstat knew from previous research, however, that strategy implementation depends on how well the organization is aligned with its strategy. Most companies do not... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
contingent reserves, and reserve dependent output costs. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-010.pdf Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni Forums - Alumni
meeting for about three to four hours monthly and holding an annual one- or two-day retreat. Each forum sets its own costs, for example, for shared meals or retreat facilitator fees. Forum members must belong to a SIG or local alumni clubs, which have differing fees... View Details