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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
less control over their strategy than they think while middle managers and operating managers can have a much greater role in strategy than is generally recognized by either those managers or by top management: But the complexity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
policy, resulting in even stricter immigration restrictions—with potential negative consequences for the economy. The US government and business leaders should instead seek a coordinated approach to design an open, but flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
ideas to a wider audience. The chapter looks at the origins of Porter's interest in clusters, which turns out to be a natural extension of his earlier work on companies. It identifies the key characteristics of Porter's conceptual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Raising the Level of Abstraction This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
quite brief (a total of 4 pages) so the balance between thinking time and reading set-up time for students is quite attractive. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211067-PDF-ENG ABICI Mukti Khaire, Elena Corsi, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
his coauthors, correct some of the misinformation, describe how the thinking on the subject has evolved, and discuss the utility of the theory. They start by clarifying what classic disruption entails—a small enterprise targeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
voting voice to determine which pieces by new, independent designers will be offered for sale on the site. Those who vote for the winning item of the day receive credits and rewards. The business launched last September as the pair began... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which pieces by new, independent View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
exhibitions and NFL Europa, a de facto minor league, failed to establish a viable Continental presence for the league. Longer term, the NFL will look at London and other foreign markets to determine whether a franchise could be supported. "Like certain other American... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
especially when they don’t have any knowledge of a subject. Designating a common enemy has always been an efficient way at uniting people. It also typically leads to scapegoating. Politicians’ role should be to educate the people and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
that the choices a VC makes when negotiating can contain important clues about her assessments and expectations. Above all, when you're negotiating with a VC, think not only about what will look good in a press release today but also... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
traditional path, The FUSE Pathway promises a road map to design a life filled with creativity, purpose, and joy, to continually evolve, and live in fulfillment throughout your entire journey. The Big Print: What Happened to America and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system that is not responsive to us." Athenahealth's cloud-based services are designed to make... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
other Mexican geographies but faces a choice of doing this with its own staff and buying land for cash, or partnering with local entrepreneurs and local land owners. In evaluating the choices, students must think more deeply about what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
designed not just to maintain the School's position as the premier institution for business education in the world, but also to broaden the outlook of the leaders it trains and, as an intended consequence, bridge gaps among cultures and... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Within and in Others By Dr. Srikanth Gaddam (OPM 43) Independently Published From vision setting and decision-making to creative thinking and risk-taking, you need to juggle numerous demands at once to become an effective and thriving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
actors. “The richest countries are the biggest promoters of lawlessness in international trade and finance,” Baker writes in his 2005 book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel. “In a process that parades as agreeable enterprise illegal money streams through mechanisms View Details