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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

and various roads to success. Assessing Your Fit Due to the risk involved in choosing the wrong CEO, companies are placing increased emphasis on assessment as part of the search, and this process is equally important for candidates.... View Details
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Shaping the Learning Environment - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Creating and sustaining this kind of learning environment involves two essential elements: clarity of expectations, as represented in the explicit learning contract, and consistency in the instructor's corresponding behavior, which... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

meetings in the office. Recalling my own experiences in the workplace, I try to empower the women around me. While pursuing my undergraduate degree, I led a branch of SheCodes, an organization that helps women to learn how to code. Before coming to HBS, getting View Details
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

benchmarks—chief among them sales growth, return on sales, and economic value-added (EVA) growth—not only helped it shorten and simplify its budgeting process, it also reduced the amount of budget gaming. Evaluation and rewards based on relative-improvement contracts.... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The Narrative AI Advantage? A Field Experiment on Generative AI-Augmented Evaluations of Early-Stage Innovations

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Léonard Boussioux, Charles Ayoubi, Ying Hao Chen, Camila Lin, Rebecca Spens, Pooja Wagh and Pei-Hsin Wang
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming creative problem-solving, necessitating new approaches for evaluating innovative solutions. This study explores how human-AI collaboration can enhance early-stage evaluations, focusing on the interplay... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Models; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention; Decision Making
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    Mastering the Management System

    From HBSP: " Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and... View Details
    • Profile

    Meagan Hill

    founders and management teams to help their companies grow. She will be involved in sourcing new deals and enhancing operations in the firm's current portfolio. "BASE is a team that loves rolling up its sleeves and working on the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Services
    • 28 Mar 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

    too-commonly used term, not mine) are tradable on international labor markets. They especially follow the migration of manufacturing activity involving jobs requiring lower skills and compensation. Efforts to revive high value-added... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
    • 07 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Art of Haggling

    intent on dominating, and who refuse to engage in problem solving. Skillful negotiation starts with having a clear sense of when to walk away, in order to avoid being browbeaten into accepting unreasonable terms, he explains. It also View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • 01 May 2020
    • Blog Post

    5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

    areas of interest further! Career-focused treks usually involve traveling to an industry “hub” such as New York or San Francisco. Over the course of 1-2 days, participants meet with a variety of different companies from the industry and... View Details
    • 22 Dec 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

    leaders to reinforce desired behaviors, the breakdown of consistent communication, and leaders who are overcome by their own sense of importance. We have learned repeatedly that there is a pattern in the actions and activities involved in... View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Unlocking the Power of Community

    way to have direct connections with their customers is an incredible opportunity for them to involve that community and also understand their interests.” Leading Businesses in a Web3 World What is Web3? The Internet's Next Frontier Giving... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 21 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

    tested their idea through a 2015 field experiment that involved 2,500 participants in a walking program offered by the Evidation health tracking platform. The program paid the walkers small amounts of money based on their total steps. “We... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 13 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

    By: Anette Mikes
    This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

    By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
    As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
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    • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
    • Case

    VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

    This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique
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    • 03 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

    all of us. DeLollis: When it comes to race, technology, and tomorrow’s business outcomes, what advice would you give to CEOs, CMOs, and other top decision makers? Turner: I advise them that if marginalized people and women weren’t View Details
    Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
    • 20 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

    when adjustments are necessary. Surprise One: You Can't Run the Company Warning signs: You are in too many meetings and involved in too many tactical discussions. There are too many days when you feel as though you have lost control over... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
    • 30 Jul 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

    "Kidney exchange is something we have gotten going in New England and elsewhere that doesn't involve any monetary transfers," Roth explains. "It has not aroused any repugnance at all. We've just gotten legislation through... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace