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- 10 Apr 2019
HBS College Programs Chat at Vanderbilt University
Join this informal chat to hear directly from past Peek and SVMP participants to learn more about the opportunities to preview the HBS MBA experience. Peek Weekend is a residential educational experience View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
HBS College Programs Chat at Emory University
Join this informal chat to hear directly from past Peek and SVMP participants to learn more about the opportunities to preview the HBS MBA experience. Peek Weekend is a residential educational experience View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Starbucks' strategy, Smith notes, centers on first-mover advantage. That approach has worked well in North America and abroad, as Starbucks, through foreign partnerships, continues to build its presence in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and now Latin America. Last... View Details
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Inessa Lurye
medical professionals listen and observe more deeply.” This approach reflects “human-centered design” and aims to direct design away from “one size fits all” product models and toward “creating experiences... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
places such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore factor Feng shui into the design and construction of buildings, because its principles are widely known to make work less tedious and human interactions more harmonious, and to... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
rather than creating the best content. Success comes not from making the "best" content, but from recognizing how content facilitates user connections; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs, but from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-007_e181fd00-4426-4db8-8f70-89b1b5054a8f.pdf January 2015 Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies International Migration and Innovation: Insights from the U.S. Experience... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
Credit: iStockPhoto Startups often struggle to find their first customers—especially in the sharing economy, where survival depends on securing users on both the supply and demand sides. No surprise, then, that our readers flocked to a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting academic credit for their efforts),... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
social, emotional job to be done. And the mix of functional, social, and emotional elements-- that mix changes by the job. But once we understand the job, then I need to ask the next question, which is-- all right, so if that's the job, what are all of the View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
Peek Program Chat at Purdue University
Stop by to learn more about Peek Weekend at HBS, an educational experience designed for college students to increase their knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. This session will be hosted by a Peek... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
on the process and methods that lead to better understand user needs and to foster creativity, and much of the business and design press focus on the role played by designers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
for designing better plastic products. In software, a number of companies let people add custom-designed modules to their standard products and then commercialize the best of those components. Open-source software allows View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 21 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand
to amplify our personalities through digital media, the opportunities for personal branding have both grown more numerous – and more intimidating. Grinshpun draws upon her experience mentoring executives, MBA alumni, and students to offer... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field experiment on the review platform Yelp.com. The experiment consists of roughly 18,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2019
LGBTQ+ Visit Day
Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and PRIDE, this event is designed for prospective applicants to experience the MBA program at Harvard Business School. Over the course of the day, participants will... View Details
- 2012
- Chapter
Structuring Consulting Firms
By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand
This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Projects; Groups and Teams; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
Morris, Tim, Heidi K. Gardner, and N. Anand. "Structuring Consulting Firms." In The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
people are so fun and engaging.” Oakes, who studied architecture as an undergraduate at Rice University, says she’s always been interested in the link between a project’s design and its social impact. Her decision to attend HBS resulted... View Details