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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

C. Roland Christensen was one of the founders of the field of business strategy and the world’s leading authority on case method teaching. Legacy Harvard Business School Professor C. Roland (Chris)... View Details
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Life at Harvard - Doctoral

Beacon Hill's cobblestone lanes to see how Boston looked during the Revolutionary War, or explore Newbury Street. Boston is also home to some of the country's most famous institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Symphony, and the Museum of Science.... View Details
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but re-nationalized the main water company in 2006. We study beliefs about the benefits of the privatization of water services amongst low and middle income groups immediately after the 2006 nationalization.... View Details
Keywords: Privatization; Public Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Values and Beliefs; Public Opinion; Utilities Industry; Argentina
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  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Too often, there's a huge gap between a company's overall business strategy and the way its salesforce operates in the field. In fact, says Frank V. Cespedes, articles and books about strategy rarely take sales into consideration at all.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

When an algorithm recommends ways to improve business outcomes, do employees trust it? Conventional wisdom suggests that understanding the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) can raise confidence in such programs. Yet, new... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong
Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Change; Diversity
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  • December 2008
  • Article

Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?

By: Roberto Verganti and Gary P. Pisano
Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners, in a wide number of ways, to create new technologies, products, and services. But what is the best way to leverage the power of outsiders? To help executives answer that... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
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  • 22 Sep 2023
  • News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

taxation. Which you might not think would be like the pick for the most influential life person, right? You probably think LEAD or something like that. But Hank was so focused on encouraging us not to just think about the specific implications of tax policy and how to... View Details
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Career Networking - Alumni

to talk about themselves. ” Jonathan Shepherd Corporate Relations Director, Harvard Business School Read Post: Yes, Introverts Can Network Successfully Hear From Your Fellow Alumni Part 1: Meet the Alumni Considering a career transition?... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

It’s 7:45 in the morning on a Friday and I am sitting in Spangler Hall, the center of student activity at Harvard Business School. About a third of the building is a large dining facility that includes a kitchen, serving area, and dining... View Details
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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses MOC Network reaches 20 y... MOC Network 20 th Anniversary Workshop The December 2022 workshop was the 20th annual gathering of global faculty at Harvard View Details
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For Alumni - Health Care

like to get involved healthcare_initiative@hbs.edu Apply to be a Blavatnik Fellow The Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship provides a select group of Harvard Business School MBA alumni with... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

me, in either a team or a one-on-one setting." Continues Klump, "I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

on the line, women were twice as likely to choose to be part of an all-male team, according to a study co-authored by Edward H. Chang, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

It was February of 2021. I had just joined the Zoom interview from the guest bedroom of our townhouse in Smyrna, Georgia, struggling to fight off the imposter syndrome that had lived rent-free in the back of my head since I had been invited to interview with Harvard... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Daron Acemoglu, MIT

  • December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
  • Background Note

Making UK Energy Smarter

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Spir-It, Inc. (B): Managing People

When Jack Sindler founded Spir-it, Inc. in 1934, he was the company's sole employee. By 1999, Sindler's firm more than survived its first 55 years. Employment was up to nearly 200, with facilities in two states and work done in three shifts. The product line--which had... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Production; Business Growth and Maturation; Interpersonal Communication; Logistics; Human Resources; Diversity Characteristics; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 12 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

question is that other non-African market participants are also waiting to enter the market. During the program, we learned of the diverse group of Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs (distinct from often reported state actors) who are... View Details