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29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

the company’s commitment to process improvement and excellence. The meticulous process standardization and data tracking of both components and process efficiency was impressively coordinated at such a massive scale. Finally, we learned... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

The following article is the eighth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Whether it involves getting striking baseball players back on the field, cutting a deal with a foreign supplier, or simply View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

deploy capital across a variety of industries and sectors. Modules explore: Module one focuses on the Family, the bedrock of the organizations that comprise the collective Family organization, specifically, the virtues that define the... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

about people revolve around three issues: What do they know? Whom do they know? and How well are they known? As for opportunity, the plan should focus on two questions: Is the market for the venture's product or service large or rapidly growing (or preferably both)?... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

operate in the Commonwealth,” Porter told some eighty CEOs and leaders of biotech, health-care, government, and academic entities gathered at HBS. He argued that Massachusetts needs a coherent strategy based on a common understanding of the challenges the life-sciences... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart of MIT and Dimitris... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

28 Jun 2011
News

Bold Ascent

expand into other offerings, such as clothing and sleeping bags, in the months ahead. Before launching SlingFin, Baka started Mountain Hardwear with fellow SlingFin founder and 33-year industry veteran/gear guru Martin Zemitis. (Columbia... View Details

Keywords: hiking; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1996
News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

established to provide a continuing base for research and teaching in the field of entrepreneurship. Stevenson teaches the elective course Entrepreneurial Management and the doctoral course Basic Readings in Administrative Theory. He is the doctoral program View Details

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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

– I work directly with the senior leadership of the city.” In addition to the projects above, Henry worked on a Housing Rent Registry project with the Housing Department and IBM, coordinated a CEO advisory board for the mayor, and... View Details

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify various types of internal and external risks and implement internal controls and boundary systems to protect your business franchise. Spurring innovation: You will learn how to design systems and... View Details

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

capacity for innovation, can and often should be structured as artists structure their work. Managers should look to collaborative artists rather than to more traditional management models if they want to... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

First Quarter 2013
Article

Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

By: Caitlin C. Rosenthal

Daniel McCallum's 1854 organizational chart for the New York and Erie Railroad resembled a tree rather than a pyramid. It empowered frontline managers by clarifying data flows. View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Telegraph; Organizational Charts; History; Data and Data Sets; Business History; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry

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29 May 2013
Blog Post

A self-discovery journey

is the endless list of resources that are available for everything. The career search is not an exception. A very structured process starts with the slow self-discovery of what matters most to you. A set of apparently odd exercises steers... View Details

17 Jan 2007
Op-Ed

Learning from Private-Equity Boards

for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron's board (which was... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services

01 Oct 1997
News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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