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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and...
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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog
and technologies. Example topics of exploration may include emerging opportunities in pharma & biotech, medical device & diagnostics advances, and related topics such as digital therapeutics, platform technologies, use of real-world evidence, data and computing, AI and...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
trusting atmosphere with decentralized decision-making." In the initial study, Deshpandé and his colleagues found significant differences in the way companies operated from one nation to another. "But a more important discovery was that...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
criteria. They are building all-electric, zero-emissions autonomous cars with the mission of making our cities safer and more sustainable with every ride. The Internship Experience I’m on the Go-To-Market team, which is responsible...
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- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News If capitalism is to blame for climate change, can it also be the best hope to stop it? That’s the paradox that HBS alumni in Southern California confronted in a sold-out, faculty-led roundtable discussion on business and climate change held in Los...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made possible by the decentralization and multiplication of design...
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- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
with companies in person to find that right fit. Most often, these students are looking for opportunities at organizations that simply hire as needed and real time; which often may be post-graduation. These students have the mindset...
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- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
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Drone Policy | About
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)? Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, are aircraft without a human pilot aboard. They can be controlled autonomously via a programmed flight path or by a pilot on the ground. The...
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- 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25
Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Sloan. Although he was becoming feeble, his mind was still sharp. Mr. Sloan would talk about innovations he introduced as head of General Motors. They included a multibrand strategy with products aimed at different market segments, the introduction of new models...
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- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
capitalism. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1 A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
of convention, and eventually wins out. The man-of-action hero combines the autonomous willpower of the rebel with the willingness to contribute to societal institutions that marks the breadwinner.— Douglas B. Holt Two other models of...
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by Manda Salls
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
these innovations exist. (The remaining imperatives: Make value the central objective; promote novel approaches to process improvement; make consumerism really work; and decentralize approaches to problem solving.) "Health care, in terms...
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- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
largely autonomous national organizations presided over by a cadre of 1,500 elite expatriate managers who championed the country-oriented approach. But as competition emerged in the 1960s and 1970s from...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
the MGM-Mirage are quite generalizable to other industries," Martinez-Jerez says. "There are many decentralized employees with the rights to act on behalf of customers, and that's quite common in other View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
young, impulsive, “self-righteous, entitled, narcissistic” visionaries realize the full potential of organizations that were formed around them. It suggests the question: Does West Coast Management need adult supervision? What do you...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
have founded schools, and have gotten their companies involved in tutoring and other in-school activities in their local communities. Scores of alumni serve on their local school boards or work with education-related organizations and...
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Building Web 3 Businesses - Course Catalog
Internet, leveraging decentralized platforms running on blockchain infrastructure. And just like the first and second waves of the Internet, Web3 has the potential to fundamentally reshape our lives. Web3 adds a new "ownership" layer...
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