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- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
contributing to the so-called Great Resignation (or “Big Quit”) that has gained publicity recently. Quitting in the United States is a major business expense. Applying... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events
If you are looking to engage with Harvard Business School students and share why your company is a great place to work, consider hosting a company event. The key to a successful event is View Details
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
correctness, free speech, or affirmative action. It is relating to people as authentic human beings, not as representatives of a group or class. Great harm is done when groups of people are stereotyped as having certain characteristics,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state policing powers rather than intrastate trade. Aided by the Great Depression The Fair Trade Act brought businesses to California and led to other states enacting similar... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
talent is diverse talent, and unique skills help grow the economy.” David Wittenberg put it this way: “If any H-1B visa holders have gone on to start large, profitable companies in the US, that is a View Details
- 24 May 2012
- News
It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur
- April 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
BAE Automated Systems (A): Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ramiro Montealegre, Carin-Isabel Knoop and H. James Nelson
Describes the events surrounding the construction of the BAE baggage-handling system at the Denver International Airport. It looks specifically at project management, including decisions regarding budget, scheduling, and the overall management structure. Also examines... View Details
Keywords: Management; Decisions; Contracts; Time Management; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Budgets and Budgeting; Construction Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Colorado
Applegate, Lynda M., Ramiro Montealegre, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and H. James Nelson. "BAE Automated Systems (A): Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System." Harvard Business School Case 396-311, April 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
services and quality of life. “The HBSCP projects gave me an exciting opportunity to help San Francisco break through a number of short-term challenges to be the world-class city it is rapidly becoming, while also being a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
fellowship is a great liberator and enabler, allowing students like me the ability to pursue our passions. It inspires me to pay it forward for other students after I graduate.” View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
says that students have a great interest in the role of ratings in the financial crisis, and in the firm itself, Becker says. "The business... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
5 Leadership Lessons from the First Year at HBS
that was true to her strengths, extremely effective for her and her team and lead her to great success and admiration within her organization. An organization can sense authenticity and appreciates when a leader’s actions are consistent... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
before you. Look for nannies and/or a spot at a daycare in the neighborhood. Don’t struggle alone and ask for help when you need it. HBS implemented great policies for parents, with a specific set of... View Details
- Spring 2018
- Article
The ‘Moral Effect’ of Legalized Lawlessness:: Violence in Britain’s Twentieth Century Empire
From 1930s Palestine to Kenya in the years following World War II, systematized violence shaped and defined much of Britain’s twentieth-century empire. Liberal authoritarianism, and with it the “moral effect” that coercion had upon colonial subjects, gave rise to the... View Details
Elkins, Caroline M. "The ‘Moral Effect’ of Legalized Lawlessness: Violence in Britain’s Twentieth Century Empire." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 44, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 78–90.
- Profile
Arvind Chandrababu
best approaches for pursuing my career. Initially, I thought building schools would be a nonprofit enterprise. But studying things like the rise of microfinance really changed my mind. When people develop commercial models, they can make... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
an "invented here" company. But the 787 introduction has been delayed several times because of design and other glitches. Lessons to be learned here about organizing external innovation? A: This is a great... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
all cookie cutter and said [Crabtree] played a great game? No. I don't think he played a great game." In Sherman's defense, "If you call Richard Sherman a thug, you have never seen a thug,"... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Harvard study singles out a game-changing economic opportunity
- Blog
What's the Right Fit for You–An In-Person or Virtual Program?
When Hitoshi Yamasaki of Mitsubishi applied to the HBS Executive Education Advanced Management Program (AMP) in 2020, he already knew something about the learning experience at HBS. Several years earlier, he... View Details
- 2012
- Article
Open Innovation and Organization Design
By: Michael Tushman, Karim Lakhani and Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
This paper calls the organization design community to reconcile the divergent scholarly perspectives on the relationship between firm boundaries and the locus of innovation by moving beyond debates between open vs. closed boundaries and instead embracing the notion of... View Details
Keywords: Organization Design; Open Innovation; Innovation; Locus Of Innovation; Organizational Boundaries; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Vertical Integration; Boundaries
Tushman, Michael, Karim Lakhani, and Hila Lifshitz - Assaf. "Open Innovation and Organization Design." Special Issue on The Future of Organization Design. Journal of Organization Design 1, no. 1 (2012): 24–27. (SSRN's top ten download list for: Organizational Structural Designs, Innovation & Product Development.)
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
most enjoyable and most challenging parts of making this film? “I have enjoyed almost every moment—from getting to work on something of great personal meaning, to mastering the nuts and bolts of a new... View Details