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20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

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Mi Zhou

my career.” Her most thought-provoking course, Mi believes, is Leadership and Corporate Accountability. “We have to consider business issues within the larger frameworks of ethics, law, and the larger economy. There are no... View Details

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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog

and founders can avoid, or rebound from, failure. Over the arc of the course, we will explore: Common patterns that lead to startup failure Frameworks to identify these patterns in early-stage and late-stage ventures Rebuilding a venture... View Details

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

in teams: reflexive, experimental, contextual, and vicarious learning. We integrate these categories into the dynamic capabilities framework to show their particular relevance at different points along the sensing-seizing-reconfiguring... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

way I perceive life, career, and business: I was fortunate enough to have Professor Clayton Christensen himself teach us his Building and Sustaining Successful Enterprises (BSSE) class, frameworks from which I use literally daily, and... View Details

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Patrick Akl

used to think that leadership was exclusively a natural gift,” he says. “But I now know that it can be learned. You need to connect the dots among many different disciplines. HBS gives us the frameworks for improving our ability to lead.” View Details

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Field Course: Business of the Arts - Course Catalog

nonprofit cultural industries and those interested in serving on the boards of arts organizations. The course also provides useful insights and frameworks for students pursuing careers in a range of for-profit creative businesses... View Details

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

values. These deviations from fundamental value create opportunities and risks for sophisticated investors in both security selection and asset allocation. Content and Organization The course is organized into two parts. The first part develops a conceptual View Details

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

paper develops a framework that attempts to connect firms’ capability search strategies with their strategies in product markets. It frames firms’ capability search strategies as choices among different types of capability enhancing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

asking an occasional question or offering an occasional comment to show that they are doing their due diligence. Extending the Balanced Scorecard and strategy map framework to board members will enable them to perform more effectively and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

care by encouraging effective communication among care providers. In their working paper, "Networks and Organization Design: A Framework for Improving the Coordination of Patient Care," Gittell and Weiss argue that organization design... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

helped with your business career? The HBS approach to case studies and the analytical frame of mind that they teach are invaluable. My whole analytical framework came from Harvard. Now, what didn’t work very well for me was everything... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

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Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society

tackling urgent climate challenges. The discussions revealed how European companies are pioneering new approaches to sustainability, forging unprecedented collaborations, and reimagining business models for a low-carbon future. Learning resources Explore key insights... View Details

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

comes from more than creating elegant solutions to problems. Your work is most satisfying when it's in the hands of real users who are benefitting from it - and ideally paying you for it! I think I understood this in the abstract at my first company, but I didn't have... View Details

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Shabrina Jiva

realized when I went back home that I've become more structured in the ways I think about things. I use new frameworks for forming opinions without even being conscious of them." Finding a balance Last summer, Shabrina took a few... View Details

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Matt Segneri

charities to support. "We provided a framework for discussion — a way to show section mates how to have a real impact with the money they're raising." From NO to DC On the HBS New Orleans IXP, Matt led a team of five people who... View Details

May 2007
Article

Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers

By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung

Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function of locations' knowledge activity, their own capabilities, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; For-Profit Firms; Knowledge Management; Research and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; Cost Management; Technology; Competition; United States

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01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly

free-market competition. While market liberalization internationally is still evolving, the consumer benefits of the competitive marketplace are pretty compelling. Putting any one carrier in charge of the infrastructure that forms the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Katie Laidlaw

and career path? HBS introduced me to more industries, jobs, companies, and roles than I thought possible. It helped me understand how private sector frameworks and analysis can be applied successfully in the public and non-profit... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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