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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
others. Module 3 synthesizes ideas from earlier in the course and embeds them in the broader context of personal effectiveness and an organization's overall strategy and operations. The module will analyze the interaction of formal... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
On The Case
Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Historically, though, such research has neglected to consider how firms are affected by major local events, whether they be planned (the Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup, for instance) or unplanned (an earthquake or hurricane). Marquis and Tilcsik set out to address that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
behaviors they produce) that they need, typically because they haven't fully determined the desired mission and values that provide the context in which hiring for attitude can take place. These are all possible explanations for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
context in which to study the missing link. Product development cycles are long, usually between seven and ten years. Millions of dollars are spent before a product ever gets to market. Uncertainty about the viability of a company's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
forced to scale back their plans or exit markets entirely. Because of a combination of cultural context and a lack of robust systems to ascertain the trustworthiness of unknown market participants, building and maintaining strong... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
experiences. These sessions will explore the business and economic setting, along with aspects of the social and geopolitical context. They will also introduce students to frameworks for better understanding the broader institutional View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
study of brand relationships outside of traditional areas by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering new contexts (online digital spaces, consumer collectives, global brands, luxury brands, and branding in terrorist... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
sole-sourcing decisions, and/or Renesas' market position as a producer of low-volume customized components, in the context of supply chain disaster recovery. The two OEM's had different strategies with respect to cross-utilization of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
upside down and might end up destroying it altogether. Some people even predicted that one huge trust would come to dominate the entire American economy. This may seem funny now, but in the context of the times it did not. At the turn of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
environmental standards in the United States and overseas. “I don’t think Nike or Levi’s relishes this role, but in the context of weak government regulatory regimes, it’s these companies’ brand reputations that are on the line when... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and legacy-shaped entrepreneurial imagination motivates a process of creation and co-creation of the cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
show how this process of experimentation can be particularly valuable in the context of entrepreneurship because most new ventures fail completely, and only a few become extremely successful. We also shed light on important costs to this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in the context of vehicle emissions testing in a state in which the government has outsourced inspection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
chapters draw upon systematic interaction with companies and practice and this is presented in the examples and the case studies cited. The Handbook of New Product Development Management surveys this area in the context of an overall... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
schools. We argue that executive education is an underutilized context that can enhance the quality of faculty research as well as our impact on managerial practice. Using evaluation data from variations of a single executive education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
learned is that many people are afraid to say the word—they whisper it. If I call the framework RACE, the word has to be said out loud just like anything else,” she said. For the first hour of the two-hour plus session, Creary provides View Details