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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
fundamental challenges of science-based businesses: 1) managing and rewarding long-term risk, 2) integrating across technical disciplines, and 3) learning. Whereas these challenges were once managed inside the boundaries of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
beginning, which we supplement with action planning done in small groups—our personal board of directors. It has a real updating of the fundamental skills that we teach here at the School. Q: Could you elaborate on these... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
are many companies with which to partner. Being part of a cluster facilitates change and speeds innovation—both fundamental to modern, knowledge-based competition. Q: Over the next ten or twenty years, what new clusters do you think will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
be, "What customers does the company choose to serve?" A company that is not strategic serves whatever customer appears, or whatever need presents itself. This notion of operational effectiveness vs. strategic positioning, is, I believe, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
moments, he concludes. "The 1990s, 1960s, 1950s and 1920s were fundamental turning points in the history of Eurasia, Africa, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Nationalism was a central influence on how they turned out." View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
[climate change] is a massive megatrend,” said Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), Morgan Stanley’s chief sustainability officer and chief marketing officer, during a panel discussion. “It’s a fundamental material risk to earnings and portfolios.”... View Details
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog
begins. Educational Objectives Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) is fundamentally a course about you . It is about preparing and equipping you to better handle the choices, tradeoffs, and surprises that you will... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Technologies after hedge fund Blue Harbour Group's investment and when the fund’s Managing Director Robb LeMasters (MBA’05) joined its board of directors. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-068... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
generating sponsorship revenue? KCON LA and KCON Tokyo have made a profit for multiple years in a row, and KCON NY was in the black for the first time in 2016, but other KCONs lost money. What can they do to further grow the Bibigo brand in the U.S.? At a more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
underestimated lever," she says. "I see so many ways in which it's the most fundamental lever for motivation and behavior—in so many countries and for so many individuals. In an increasingly globalized world, it's more important than ever... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
We label these two alternative modes Leviathan as a majority investor and Leviathan as a minority investor, respectively. Next we differentiate between these two modes by describing their key fundamental traits and the conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
Talismark, which helped its customers manage their waste, was considering re-engineering its business fundamentals to dramatically increase profitability by changing its sales and information processes. Implementing the changes would be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
financial performance. Q: What are the biggest obstacles for companies attempting to implement this strategy? Rangan: The biggest obstacles remain exactly as they were ten years ago. While technology has enabled widespread application, View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
of things to test—in scientific terms, the generation of hypotheses—is a fundamentally creative act. In many business situations, the hypothesis, problem, or opportunity is not well-defined, nor does it present itself tidily formed; you... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
clones. The Approach—the Paths Of Learning My basic purpose in this volume is to carry out the fundamental task of the historian: to record where, when, how, and by whom technical knowledge was commercialized into the new products that... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
in space is the fundamental transformation of how it’s being organized. For a long time, when most people thought about what we do in space as humans, they thought of it as primarily a government-led activity. They thought of the James... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
for me is to create a large, fundamental institution on a global stage out of India. And I think we can do that. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable,... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
tremendous things,” Iansiti says. “If you go after a static, traditional environment and drive a new model of competition, you’re going to do really well. Take Google and advertising, or take Amazon and retail, and you can see organizations that have applied a View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
a fundamental question is, are these being driven by what economists would call taste—‘I like red people and don’t like green people’—or is it driven by beliefs—‘it’s not that I don’t like them per se, I just don’t think we can trust... View Details