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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
Companies looking for the best possible leaders—and leaders looking to become CEOs—would do well to heed the model of private-equity (PE) backed companies, which often look outside their ranks when hiring for the top job and see excellent...
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcome relationship results from specialized teams who see higher volumes of specific conditions that leads to better outcomes. A well run integrated practice unit accululates more and more experience leading to better teams, more...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of...
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- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
be combined. Thomke's experience goes back a long way—as a kid growing up in Germany he participated in a LEGO competition. As an adult, though, his interests lie more in the business behind the bricks. "When you've written many...
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- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
on SVB were no more apparent than the runs we have seen in the crypto space. The swift government actions to back regional banks, in my view, are commendable, although more targeted to managing general...
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- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at...
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- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
fit. “At our first startup after a series of roles at large enterprise software companies, we tried to force a big company perspective on how we did employee feedback and reviews. We were too structured with this initially and quickly cut View Details
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by Julia B. Austin
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
jobs, and people applied for them. For many of us, however, the pandemic has brought back into focus the critical job we “hire” employers to do for us—make progress in our lives and careers—and how divorced that progress has become from...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to small telecom companies. AirFox was generating revenue and had a pipeline of interested customers, but it was View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
services. This technical note is intended to provide practical guidelines for designing, conducting, and analyzing a conjoint analysis survey. The note discusses the six steps needed to effectively run a conjoint analysis study and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say
life goals and a path to achieve them. I would also never take back the opportunity to have my kids exposed to life living at HBS. What advice do you have for prospective HBS students? To consider what they want out of their MBA and...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short run, while the results in the long run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
was about running a business. It was all about supply chains and helping the military figure out the best way to get stuff to Europe. Of course, identity and structure both had to change. And then the war was over, and we went View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
something tangible. Second, I cannot emphasize the power of the community enough! The first-year curriculum ensures you have some academic experiences unique to the MS/MBA cohort: starting classes a month early for Design Theory and Practice (DTP) and coming View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
award was out of their reach, their punctual behavior slipped back downhill. Larkin says this runs counter to what some people believe—that such an award program might instill a long-term pattern of on-time...
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- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leaderand How to Be One
everybody to do it. You have the famous example of Rosa Parks, saying, "I'm not sitting in the back of the bus." Well, while that was a remarkable act of courage on her part, and in some degree was kind of a spontaneous event,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
"reserve requirement" to back up supply commitments. Enron had a major advantage over competitors as a middleman between producers and consumers because it operated one of the nation's largest natural gas pipeline networks....
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the...
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Julia Hanna
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
failed, and what should I do next?” Badaracco says. “But you ought to look at the full range of things you have already done, including non-work tasks, and pat yourself on the back occasionally.” 3: Ponder your hard issues The second...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Portrait Project
Kate Kleinsman
“You can always come back home” said my mum as we lugged my suitcases into my college dorm room in the big city. ‘Why would I?’ I thought to myself. I come from a small town where a new bakery opening makes the local paper and you View Details