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Career Support - Business & Environment

2010) Summer Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

15 Oct 2001
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What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

specify goals up front and revisit them repeatedly during the decision-making process. These goals can be complex and multifaceted, quantitative and qualitative, but whatever form they take, they must remain at the fore. Studies of merger... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

deadlines, and short-term and intermediate goals, to increase quality and effectiveness of the product and the experience Make sure that program staff can dedicate time to the project as well, and is positioned to continue/ implement the work after the student leaves... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

in prize money and have access to mentoring and other resources. Applications due in January. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

create an exceptional environment for teaching, learning, and research, and the alumni offer their time, talent, and treasure to propel us forward. I draw great inspiration from this. What did you find to be most challenging about the transition? The sheer View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

simultaneously. I carry a part of each one in my bag." "I'm currently dealing with five projects simultaneously. I carry a part of each one in my bag." "I like to take on large, complex problems and establish frameworks that help people... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

12 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

– and it's okay if they're complex or thorny." Give yourself permission to not know exactly what you want or where you're going. Instead of a plan, coaching participants are better served by bringing an open mind and a willingness to... View Details

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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

Report 2020 Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizon Reith Lectures 2020 – How We Get What We Value Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

an important set of eyes and ears to our external constituency." Their ideas and perspectives "help us think about the direction the School should take in a very complex and ever-changing social and economic environment." Through these... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way

complexities of the financial aid process. “There's so much talent that you can unlock when you start to believe in people. They go in all these wonderful directions, and it changes their lives. I just want to spread that around.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

view of such differences, to figure out the ones that matter the most in your industry, and to look at them not just as difficulties to be overcome but also as potential sources of value creation. Q: You say Toyota is an example of a company that understands the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

while the SX-70 group made the final push to complete the design of a camera that would make the complex process of one-step photography possible and the act of taking the picture amazingly simple. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x... View Details

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

it's been able to develop tractable models with strong predictive capacity; in other words, it simplifies the complex phenomena of human decision-making, interaction, and exchange into its barest form and makes predictions based on those.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its training programs and empower its employees to put customers first... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Mar 2017
HBS Seminar

Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

with the Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII). The Census II analysis and report represent important steps toward understanding and addressing structural and security complexities in the modern day supply chain where... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Chromolithographs—lithographs printed in multiple colors by means of a complex process of color separation that used one stone for each color—produced stunning, eye-catching advertisements in bold tones. “Even a cheap label has a depth... View Details

21 Aug 2000
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From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

in the case," Ghemawat warned the audience as the discussion began. "There's a lose-to-a-billion dollar commitment that Embraer is close to making for a new family of aircraft. There's an extraordinarily complex and bitter... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

23 Jun 2003
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Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

Buyers and sellers in mature industrial markets can turn single transactions into long-term beneficial relationships by a deeper understanding of the complex connection between the two, says Harvard Business School professor Narakesari... View Details