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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
of many hospitals testing a process called time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), which is meant to marry cost-measuring with value-based care. TDABC was pioneered by Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at HBS. It... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
first time—and a lot better the second time." For the people who established a company like Handspring, she said, the essential difference was the degree of knowledge—both "knowing," on the part of entrepreneurs who can... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that most startups... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
actively and openly to others will remain a vital human skill—and the essential duty of every leader. The second behavior is what I call And Thinking . And Thinking refers to a leader’s ability to reject or reframe traditional either/or... View Details
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
successful platform business. Participants explore platforms’ unique properties, opportunities, and risks and learn how to develop scalable strategies that deliver a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Related Programs Entrepreneurship View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self. Those principles are what she calls her five Ps: Purpose, process, people, presence and peace. And in this episode of Skydeck, contributor April... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates—the prices paid for a rig's services—fall by as much as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
seasons, and as an activity essential to their society. New Jersey . Arbuckle Bros. Trade Card. Advertising Ephemera Collection. Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, olvwork81662 Driven by the development of color... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
says of conventional farming. Instead, he rebalances the soil's content naturally, adding crushed rock that includes calcium, magnesium, and other essential minerals while letting cow manure, and Mother Nature, do the rest. "When people... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
door and ready to be marketed to with more profitable products such as home mortgages. Already, entrepreneurial competitors are pecking around the margins of banking—Paypal offers essentially the equivalent of an online checking account,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Experiment in Computational Biology By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim Lakhani Abstract—Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
role is one where our students can enter the market." It's also essential that managers understand the role of the creator in creative industries, Kahire emphasizes: how they work, their values, the fact that, as she puts it,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
The partnerships worked because three essential components were in place: mutual expectations, mutual influence, and trust. When the task forces were commissioned, Childs and Gerstner set expectations and made sure that roles and... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
advice, and I do recognize and reward people who are doing a good job." Pride In Numbers As Unocal's Thompson and Aetna's Schlichting show, a strong bond between manager and employee is an essential element in pride building.... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
discretionary behavior, and they’re certainly not wasting time reading the company handbook. They even resist restrictions such as vacation or expense policies, which Netflix has essentially abolished. The company’s expense policy is,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
development, and other business activities where on–demand creativity is essential to success. — Deborah Blagg Wheel, Deal, and Steal by D. Quinn Mills (Financial Times Prentice Hall) As a follow–up to last year’s Buy, Lie, and Sell High:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups and downs, to farewells. You’ll have the support of caregivers who are walking your path, and the inspiring wisdom of counselors—hospice... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
structure of the game can have a powerful impact on outcomes. Principle 2: Breakthrough Negotiators Organize To Learn Skilled negotiators learn by doing the necessary preparation to negotiate: They diagnose the essential features of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins