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Best Practices | Information Technology

your home office is safe and secure, both for benefit of the University and for the benefit of you and your loved ones. Encrypting Email When sending sensitive information to other people, you need to be extremely careful regarding what View Details

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Creating Value in Business and Government (HKS-HBS Joint Degree Seminar) - Course Catalog

purpose is to integrate the perspectives and analytic tools provided by the HKS core curricula in the MPP or MPA/ID programs with the perspectives and analytic tools provided by the required HBS curriculum... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs

best practices. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a cofounder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard, led a case discussion focusing on selecting the right management tools to implement nonprofit strategy. Comcast COO Stephen... View Details

Keywords: clubs; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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The World Needs Your Leadership Now More Than Ever

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) will expose you to new tools and thinking, providing you with the opportunity to self-reflect and renew yourself as a leader and changemaker. You'll engage with a global community of leaders who face... View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 03 Oct 2018

HBX Becoming A Better Manager

Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: October 3, 2018 - November 28, 2018 View Details

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Infrastructure funds and project finance

Where do I find information on infrastructure investments and project finance? LSEG Workspace includes a project finance screening tool that allows searching by initiative type, geography, and cost. On the homepage, type... View Details

Marvin Bower

Bower is considered the father of modern management consulting. He led McKinsey’s worldwide expansion and created many of its consulting tools and applications, increasing the company’s billings tenfold in the process. He pioneered the... View Details

Keywords: Services

01 Sep 2007
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Giving New Ventures a Boost

proposed a plan for Judicial Intelligence, a suite of computer-based tools that will help litigators strategically analyze the opinions of judges they will face in court. In the social enterprise track, a team from Harvard’s School of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 09 Jan 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Management Essentials

Maximize your managerial effectiveness by shaping and influencing processes in the critically-important treetop level between 50,000 feet (strategy) and ground level (daily tasks and activities). Program Dates: January 9, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

in debt. This book tells how he finally succeeded. After years of failures, LaMagna founded Tweezerman, one of the world’s most successful beauty tool manufacturers, with more than 40 million customers. The company became a success by... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Apr 2014
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Multiple generations of computing

Throughout her career, Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981) has worked on the next generation of computing. In the early days of Apple, she participated in the creation of personal computers, moving from a specialized tool for professionals to an... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Platforms and Collaborations

platform from Art Technology Group, then in its infancy. This inherent flexibility has helped the platform age gracefully. Even after five years in use, a student team’s evaluation in the fall of 2000 recommended navigational improvements but validated the Course... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Feb 2014
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Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities

creative tools that can be used. It focuses on five major areas: the problematic state of fuel taxes; the increasing promise of user fees; innovations in debt financing; the challenges of privatization; and the promise (and challenges) of... View Details

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

collaboration encouraged by today’s communication tools like Slack and Skype good or bad for finding the best answer? “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides"... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Consumer demographics

and secondary data and analysis in the US and some European countries. SimplyMap is a mapping tool for the U.S. that incorporates market data from Simmons Experian Local. See also the Baker Library Research Guide on View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 16 Oct 2019
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HBS Online Economics for Managers

Gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy, whether you are an aspiring marketing professional, strategy consultant, or entrepreneur, preparing for an MBA, or just looking to contribute more to business decision making. Program Dates: October... View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018

HBX Economics for Managers

Gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy, whether you are an aspiring marketing professional, strategy consultant, or entrepreneur, preparing for an MBA, or just looking to contribute more to business decision making. Program Dates: October... View Details

Howard R. Hughes, Jr.

Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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Your Personalized Experience | MBA

opportunities and funding sources. Leverage CPD’s tools and resources to discover current MBA internship and full-time job opportunities. Prepare for Interviews CPD offers several online learning tools to... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Books

develop an effective strategy (with tools such as SWOT analysis and strategic-change agendas); plan execution of the strategy (through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards); put strategy into... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

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