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  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private investment into the country. While there I analyzed... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 02 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group

the best talent from top business schools and develops them into high-caliber global general managers for Samsung Group companies. At Samsung GSG, one learns essential management skills by working across diverse geographies, industries... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 16 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

professional who was gearing his career towards general management and loved the game of basketball. Overseeing P&L, strategy, finance, merchandising, marketing, and social purpose further developed Laitsas’ general manager View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

designed to accelerate and reinforce your learning. Exchange ideas with your classmates, broaden your perspective, and challenge your worldview. Social Join a global community of business professionals. Learn from and network with peers... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

displace—producer innovation in many parts of the economy. We argue that a transition from producer innovation to open single user and open collaborative innovation is desirable in terms of social welfare and so worthy of support by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade of the new century."... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • May 20, 2016
  • Comment

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

By: John A. Quelch
When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; World Health Organization; World Bank; Pandemics; Emergency Preparedness; Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Communication Strategy; Nonverbal Communication; Framework; Governance; Government and Politics; Health; Management; Practice; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare or Wellbeing; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Public Administration Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; South America; West Indies
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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

leadership purposes and the actions they need to undertake to accomplish them. These programs help participants build skills around networking, negotiation, leading change, and managing career transitions. "We raise women's... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

for-profit companies that have met "rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency." At present, there are only 1,281 B corps in the world, spread across 41 countries and 121... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

here, how strong is purpose in your organization? Is there too little "know why" in business? If so, why? What do you think? To read more: Ram Charan, Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 Apr 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

in the work place is that generally we have more patience and a 'nicer' way of putting things-good or bad!" Kapil Sopory added that "women display better problem solving skill and organizational loyalty than men. They are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Profile

Rye Barcott

provided the scholarship for his education, Rye studied Swahili and, in his junior year at the University of North Carolina, took his new language skills to Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in the world. "I lived in... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Expertise Dissensus: A Multi-level Model of Teams' Differing Perceptions about Member Expertise

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Lisa Kwan
Why are some teams more effective than others at using their members' expertise to achieve short-term performance and longer term developmental benefits? We propose that a critical factor is expertise dissensus-members' differing perceptions of each other's level of... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Failure; Experience and Expertise; Research; Performance Effectiveness; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Perception; Personal Development and Career
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Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
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Online AI Course | HBS Online

diverse applications of AI, machine learning, predictive modeling, and data science Explore ethical AI-related challenges to implement it responsibly and manage risks Develop the skills and frameworks to shape your organization’s digital... View Details
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world needs leaders who pursue the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

INK: Maker’s Manual

Difference in the World by Russ Banham, Shirley Spence, and Howard Stevenson In his 40-plus years at HBS, Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson has seen firsthand the countless ways in which alumni have harnessed leadership skills and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

firms, less is known about the more complex choices faced by hybrid organizations that balance social and economic objectives and curate symbolic, values-based portfolios. By process-tracing original interview data from three leading... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne