Knowledge Aspects Of Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

with clients and (2) the Project Leader Program, targeted for project leaders and designed to help them develop the "softer" management skills to complement their technical ones. A distinctive aspect View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

an editor and contributor to a new book, A Political Economy of Justice. Her essay, one of 14 in the book, makes a case for purpose-driven firms—companies that espouse prosocial goals, beyond merely... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

stop for a drink, eager to reward business initiative. What's missing in Europe are the incentives and the network.— Enrico Bastianelli,ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals Expanding on that theme, Ted Llana, vice president of Global Commercial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

each mapped out a list of target firms and reached out to classmates, alumni, former colleagues, professors, and PE/VC Managing Partners. Key to their strategy were two simple questions at the end View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

remote interns. “It's important to select projects which are important or notable to a large group. This ensures that many people in the organization are invested in the intern's success, and it widens the scope of available mentors who... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

29 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

that is so assured that it no longer requires conspicuous display. They lease their cars, rent other people's holiday homes, and would happily outsource other aspects of their lifestyles. They reject the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

They often functioned, as a result, as part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. In the more recent globalization era, the strategies View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

have tried to make use of knowledge about the stocks a given fund holds. What is unique in our work is that in rating each fund, we look at the overlap between that fund's holdings and the holdings View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Oct 2000
News

A Message from Dean Clark

unchanged. However, to stay on the cutting edge of management education, we must innovate, create new ideas, and bring our knowledge to bear in new kinds of programs. We must... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

the world this summer to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What were you working on this summer? This summer, I worked with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association View Details

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

discussing a number of questions, including the following: should GAP include environmental and social aspects beyond food safety; what was GLOBALGAP's role outside of Europe;... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

catastrophe that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September. In fact, had the reform legislation been in place starting in the 1990s or early 2000s, we might well have avoided the worst aspects... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

are so many innovative companies doing great work in this space that if you want to move into cleantech, you'll find plenty of opportunities to do so." Lisa Wetstone (MBA 2019), Director of Innovation &... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series: Harvard Business Review on Customer Relationship Management. This collection of cutting-edge articles will help organizations understand how to build customer loyalty through... View Details

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

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

no blueprint to tell you in detail what to do, you must work artfully. Forging ahead without detailed specifications to guide you obviously requires innovation, new actions. We take this observation one step further by suggesting that View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

litigation, and (3) the availability of contractual provisions and negotiating strategies that mitigate the debtor's collective action problems. It also argues that the fact-specific equitable remedy in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

most challenging aspects of systems integration. August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel