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- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
its peak in 2017. Over the years, Ping An implemented its finance plus ecosystem strategy through three steps. First, it used technology to enable and increase the competitiveness of its core business of financial services. Second, it... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
top-management, CEO-focused client services. Consulting firms make growth their primary objective It’s worth recalling that these strategy firms were founded on the core principles of professionalism and highly selective client... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
So even though most companies spent the last decade reinventing their core business processes — such as how they do purchasing or manage inventory and order processing — they did so with the aim of greater efficiency. Most of them have... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
“receivers,” Kominers and Shapiro observed that moderators need to be aware of information that enables a receiver to create false beliefs or harm others. “The existence of two different categories of information is one of the core... View Details
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Luca, and Christopher T. Stanton surveyed 5,819 small businesses in the United States, finding that many businesses would not be able to survive if the crisis continued to persist for months. Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
transactions. A combination of Amazon and eBay, it holds an 80 percent share of the e-commerce market in the world's second largest economy. Its net income for 2013 was four times more than in 2012. Its products and services lie at the View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware manufacturer Stanley... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
research into the causes of the crisis. “Jay came at the recession like the expert he was,” says Angela Crispi (MBA 1990), Executive Dean for Administration during Light’s tenure. “He moved quickly to manage expenses, while continuing to invest in the people and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
data, and pay for any loss of business you’ve had,” says Itskovich. Half of the startup’s 180 employees work in areas like security research and data science, while the rest handle traditional insurance activities such as underwriting and claims management. At-Bay... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
integration process. All focused on how best to combine the two airlines’ core systems and operating processes as well as the appropriate scope and speed of strategic changes. Now, Parker must decide on the composition of AAL’s senior... View Details
- Profile
Jacqueline Beato
As an undergraduate, her business ambitions percolated within what might seem to be a technically oriented degree. "Industrial engineering is the best major there is," Jacqueline says. "Yes, it does include the core skills... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
are interlinked. And I think that this is really one of the core things that I got from HBS: the ability to not think about one issue in isolation of the bigger picture. Number two, the belief that there's not only one solution to a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
profitability, and to illustrate the impact, Vail recorded a $2 million loss in the second quarter of 2008 compared to 2007.” Fix: Become an All-Weather Destination. “Vail should... become a recreational center that also offers skiing. By making outdoor activities its... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
then, you want to equip them with the tools and techniques necessary to become great leaders. “I think some of the core lessons of leadership are vision and values, or communication and teamwork, or innovation and pushing yourself to... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
core principles are I would probably be a very different version of myself today.” Returning to the Continent Post HBS, Kuyoro was certain it was time to return home and build the next chapter of her career in Nigeria. She enjoyed her... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
different than those President Lincoln faced, courageous leadership can take on many forms. Take inspiration from Koehn’s book to develop your own leadership style as a manager and motivate employees to take on leadership roles as well. Uncommon Service: How to Win by... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
their goals. Alternatively, some might lean into their comparative advantage in area, and let go of the other. Three notable tensions 1. How, as an organizational leader, does one navigate resource allocation between core mission and... View Details
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Growing Together - Annual Report 2014
that meet its unfolding pedagogical, space, and strategic needs. Our current master plan expresses the same vision, and its greatest strength is its connection to the core mission of the School. While the principles are consistent, much... View Details