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    The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage

    From HBSP: " In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their... View Details

      Fit to Compete

      Is Silence Killing Your Strategy? In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details
      • 09 Feb 2024
      • HBS Case

      Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive

      reduce appetite have become very popular.” While Herzlinger is concerned about the potential side effects of weight loss drugs, she says a solution to morbid obesity is necessary. The rise of the drugs prompted Herzlinger to update a 2003 View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Health; Pharmaceutical
      • 21 Aug 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

      With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked for View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 25 Oct 2016
      • First Look

      October 25, 2016

      insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry between 2007 and 2010. To overcome endogeneity... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      About - Business & Environment

      successful finance projects that brought together the private and public sectors, large financial institutions, and multilateral organizations. In previous roles at HBS she wrote case studies on impact... View Details
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      Business History - Faculty & Research

      perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and, additionally, we document detailed case View Details
      • 23 May 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

      points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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      Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      well-recognized relationship between volume of cases treated and the health outcomes achieved. While early studies of the volume outcome relationship suggested that it was the volume of a single provider,... View Details
      • 31 May 2016
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      May 31, 2016

      on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw lessons from seven View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 28 Sep 2016
      • Blog Post

      Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project

      At HBS, I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would become a “leader who makes a difference in the world.” It was on my mind as I attended career development programs, agonized over internship opportunities, and prepared yet another View Details
      • 12 Apr 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

      an associate professor at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Management Science. The researchers set out to answer two questions: One, what drives workers to deviate from an employer’s task... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
      • 18 Feb 2014
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      First Look: February 18

      change their companies' values, build healthier relationships with investors, revamp incentive systems to create long-term value, and develop stronger succession plans. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/How-CEOs-Can-Fix-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00DKMUZ2S August 2013... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 07 Apr 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

      over others.” Keenan studied corporate donations with Leslie John, professor of business administration at HBS, and Anne Wilson, a lecturer at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Their findings will appear in a... View Details
      Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
      • 11 Sep 2015
      • Blog Post

      What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

      concurrently, or apply during the first year of study at either HLS or HBS. Because of the flexibility of the program, it typically attracts a diverse set of students interested in business, law, and public service. Tian Feng and Zach... View Details
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      How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

      is engrained in your organization, communicating the impact of this culture to potential new hires is very impactful. Case studies about how your organization has developed more inclusive practices or... View Details
      • 17 Apr 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: April 17

        PublicationsHappiness Runs in a Circular Motion: Evidence for a Positive Feedback Loop between Prosocial Spending and Happiness Authors:Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Happiness Studies 13... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • April 1999
      • Article

      Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980

      By: G. Jones and Judith Wale
      This article examines the diversification strategies and organisational competencies of Harrisons & Crosfield, a British-based multinational, between 1900 and 1980. There is an accumulating body of case study evidence on the historical evolution of British... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Great Britain
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        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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        Mark Giragosian

        attraction of HBS is its application of the case study method. “One of my weaknesses was that I did not always speak up as quickly as I should have in business settings. The View Details