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Frank Mycroft

discover life, how would that change societies on earth?" One obstacle, Frank found, is technology. "We're limited by our ability to engineer advanced telescopes and spaceships, tools that can give us more data. Without those,... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

strategic business investment in inner cities goes much deeper and will produce "profitable and sustainable change for both sides." In her latest book, she looks at a number of companies that found that... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

one-fifth of the races. Additional evidence suggests that these results are driven by voters who value voting expressively over voting strategically for the top-two candidate they dislike the least to ensure her victory as well as by... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Program Policies - HBS Online

Business Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Creating Brand Value Strategic Financial Analysis Entrepreneurial Marketing Dynamic Teaming Transforming Customer Experiences This 30% discount can only be... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

to try to understand the boundaries of giving away intellectual property for free versus having it closed. We have not reached any formal conclusions. We are seeing possibilities that we need to rethink our intellectual property strategies. It’s really a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2015
First Look

November 17, 2015

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50066 Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study adaptation by financial intermediaries as a response to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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David A. Frankel

his wife, “I need a total change and this HBS thing is unfinished business.” He packed up, flew to Boston in the fall of 2001 and arrived on campus with the words of his peers echoing in his head. “A lot of people said `You are a lunatic.... View Details

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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

http://huit.harvard.edu/information-technology-policies . Guest collaborators are also required to keep RCS informed of any changes in contact information. In addition, researchers should make themselves familiar with the university... View Details

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

that comes with striving toward a common goal. Solutions can include changing team members, but an event to clear the air can help to relieve frustration and resolve conflict. How Do Teams Learn? Working Paper: Three Perspectives on Team... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

you could say. As VP of Strategy & Operations, I was responsible for defining our strategic roadmap and designing and implementing our business operations. While I learned a great deal in my role and was fortunate to have a great team... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship

14 May 2024
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

importance of a culture that encourages progress, outlining how “sustainability-oriented innovation involves making intentional changes to an organization's philosophy and values.” But what kind of philosophy and values lead to a... View Details

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A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Catalyst for Commitment “It was a moment of commitment—a no-turning-back experience.” That’s how Abby Falik (MBA 2008) describes winning the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference’s Pitch for Change contest with her proposal for Global... View Details

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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog

This course is designed to provide hands-on guidance through the early stages of building your business. Students will test assumptions and hypotheses to evolve their product, build their strategic and operating roadmaps, create... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

inventory. The problem with that is you might have strategic consumers who delay their purchase of a pair of sandals, for example, to take advantage of the discounted price. Whereas if you didn’t use a markdown, then—who knows?—maybe... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

Apparently it still exists to some degree for one third of the organizations that have taken precautions to protect themselves. It works, too, for individuals who are careful about changing passwords regularly (so that, if you're like me,... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

01 Jan 2007
News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

shifts into opportunities for even greater success. In 1985, Martin Sorrell was ready for a change. He had spent nine years at Saatchi & Saatchi, helping the London-based advertising firm reach superstar status with his strategic and... View Details

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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