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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

the course of the semester, we develop a set of interconnected frameworks that will be a useful toolbox for the future general manager. Grading / Course Administration: The grade allocation for this class will be 50% for class... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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an organized framework to help individuals make intelligent choices. It presents ways to identify the right problem or opportunity, probe one's values, generate and evaluate alternatives, think about tradeoffs, and cope with uncertainties... View Details

29 Jul 2008
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An Educational Start-Up

by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, Sahlman highlighted some of the qualities that make Dr. John’s what he modestly termed “a reasonable case,” noting that it’s fairly straightforward while including the classic framework of... View Details

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

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

extent to which companies use performance-based pay. We argue that while agency theory provides a useful framework to analyze strategic compensation, it fails to consider a host of psychological factors that affect employee motivation and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

get competitive intelligence, how to determine if their brand or company is at risk, how to blunt competitors' efforts, and much more. Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities around the World by Yves L. Doz... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
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Bombardier: Canada versus Brazil at the WTO

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Brett Laschinger

In less than a decade, Bombardier had grown from a medium-size Canadian company to a highly profitable global player largely on the strength of the introduction of a new generation of regional jet and successfully marketing its product to airlines around the world.... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Business and Government Relations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Air Transportation Industry; Canada; Brazil

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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

portfolio and risk management. Students will develop and refine their investment process organization, creating a framework for investing. This should allow them to better utilize and develop pattern recognition and allow them to ponder:... View Details

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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog

of key stakeholders Apply strategic frameworks to analyze business opportunities and competitive dynamics in healthcare markets Examine the impact of healthcare policies and regulations on firms as well as other stakeholders, including... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

change and uncertainty, and military frameworks play a foundational part of this training. A significant milestone was achieved in 2001 with the emergence of the Agile Manifesto, foundational principles initially aimed at improving... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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

16 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

both governments and corporations to make these commitments possible. MacNaughton further emphasized that “while framework from government is important, in the end, it’s businesses who drive innovation, who offer the solutions, who create... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Advance Racial Equity in the Office

moved the needle at all.” Accountability is what will differentiate an insipid pledge from real progress. The objective is to define what progress looks like in practice. “There’s a basic framework for this, that organizations apply to... View Details

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The Moral Leader - Course Catalog

former student put it, "To enter the mindset of the characters, to be them, to feel what they feel...This is the privilege of the fiction reader." Finally, leaders have to make hard decisions, and this course draws literature and on classic works of moral philosophy to... View Details

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones?... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

growing a business, for better or for worse. “I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks.” Chester A. "Chet" Huber (HBS MBA '79) says the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

01 Dec 2011
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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

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 21 Jan 2016
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How to Snag - and Keep - Your Dream Job

In the old days, a good career was linear. It began at prestigious universities and progressed through prestigious organizations, with few diversions or deviations along the way. Now, a career is like a collage, and prestige in jobs matters far less than impact. Life's... View Details

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

the potential for non-traditional gender role models to gradually erode gender inequality in homes and labor markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Customers and Investors: A Framework for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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