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When Generations Learn Together

What happens when a father and son team up to attend executive education programs together? Bracken Seaberg (BS) and Jim Seaberg (JS) discuss their shared experiences in Private Equity and Venture Capital and Changing the Game:... View Details

January 2017
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Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners: Cash Flow Tool

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton

DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita) is one of the U.S.'s leading dialysis providers, a process whereby persons with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are connected to a machine that performs the functions of a healthy kidney. Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO, has expanded... View Details

Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Startup Management; Startup; Strategic Positioning; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States

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April 2009
Journal Article

Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma

By: Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David James Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael Tushman and Sidney G. Winter

For more than a century, operations researchers have recognized that organizations can increase efficiency by adhering strictly to proven process templates, thereby rendering operations more stable and predictable. For several decades, researchers have also recognized... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Adaptation

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21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years."—Robin Ely But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies and make up just 3.6... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

during military conflicts. As countries such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom honor their veterans this month, Harvard Business School Professor Robert Simons reflects on how service during wartime shaped the executive... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

when the ratio of government debt to total debt is higher; and ii) by firms with stronger balance sheets. Our theory provides a new perspective on the apparent ability of firms to exploit bond-market return predictability with their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Creating Brand Value

cultural and relationship prowess today's business-to-consumer (B2C) brand managers need. You will explore branding as a collective and collaborative meaning-making process among firms, consumers, and other cultural producers, acquiring new View Details

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

regulations raise the stakes for companies’ climate mitigation efforts by increasing company stakeholders’ ability to track their emissions trends and see who’s meeting and who’s missing their reduction targets. “A growing number of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

don't have the capability for making rechargeable batteries in the United States today, and that's because the decisions made by other industries let that [industrial] commons wither away." “Companies will certainly limit their View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

judo strategists plan two to three years into the future, looking beyond today's pressures and problems to the challenges that lie ahead. Executives at Inktomi, eBay, and Palm all maintain that long-term planning is necessary, even when... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

challenges that an executive can undertake, requiring mastery of talent management, change management, and ethics. “The business today is much more complex than ten or twenty years ago" —Paul M. Healy "The business today is much... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

14 May 2015
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Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students

For Rudina Seseri, coming to HBS as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence was a kind of homecoming. A 2005 graduate of HBS, Rudina has spent much of the last decade working as a venture capitalist - investing in startups and working closely with founders and View Details

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Real Estate Management Program

Summary In today's increasingly unpredictable, competitive real estate sector, your ability to make the best decisions requires a thorough grasp of how the industry is evolving and how the relationships among design, development,... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Real Estate

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more creative positions are also more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

elements that executives need to align and strengthen. This article describes how companies have used the matrix to clarify their relationships with daughter brands, retool their identities to support new businesses, revamp their overall... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Program

High Potentials Leadership Program

cons of diverse leadership styles and strategies, you will expand your ability to build productive teams, champion change, lead in a crisis, and create a culture of high performance. This high potentials leadership program is presented... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

opportunity to democratize what was in his youth the "black art" of photography. When he got interested in cameras in 1877, they were expensive (costing about $50), extraordinarily complicated contraptions requiring considerable View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

adult learning workshop was looking at the strengths and weaknesses of face-to-face education versus online distance learning. But in fact, these two types of education can be quite complementary. Should executives interested in corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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