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Mastering Strategy Execution

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

cost and in less time. I will also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change. Some of the popular solutions to these challenges (e.g., Medicare for All, free community college, View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom

Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

(they/them) is a political science student pursuing a Master of Public Administration at American University. They have been working as an intern with HBS Initiatives through DZConneX. Skye is enthusiastic about work on issues like climate justice View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing Space shuttle Influence: Medium-High 90 1990 s Boom in connectivity Cloning,... View Details

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

23 Apr 2016
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Tipping His Cap to Open Source

As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which builds View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer... View Details

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

information accessible and portable, have been talked about for a long time. One hurdle to progress on this relates, again, to the existing business model, which makes it difficult for information stored on one health-care provider's... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

regression, mediation analysis, longitudinal data analysis, structural equation modeling and multilevel modeling. Pwr : Power analysis functions along the lines of Cohen (1988). Visualizations Word Cloud Resources Tableau Public : popular... View Details

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

identified patients for clinical research. During his Blavatnik Fellowship, he will focus on the development and commercialization of Trove Health’s core software platform, which is harnessing technology to... View Details

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

each year for team-building events, and the support of the latest and best communications technology. Just how large an organization can get while still being managed remotely in an effective way is a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2024
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Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan... View Details