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- 2020
- Discussion Paper
Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential
of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the
overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the...
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Competitiveness;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Competition;
Government Administration;
Health Pandemics;
Economy;
Supply Chain;
Safety
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Peter Clinch. "Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19." Discussion Paper, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Boston, MA, US, 2020.
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Brandon Lovell
"I found myself hanging with not necessarily the right crowd," Brandon says. After graduating from high school and spending a couple years searching for a purpose, Brandon was introduced to Year Up, a nonprofit program founded...
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- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
the point that it can never be regained. We recently saw a version of this, which you might call the "we have too much on our plate right now" argument. It is possible to have too many projects, where clearly any recommended...
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by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
is doing, but “sideways” is rarely the right direction. For example, in early 2016, leaders of the package delivery venture Shyp were refining the company’s business model and dialing back earlier expansion moves in search of profit....
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by Danielle Kost
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout...
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by Kristen Senz
- Portrait Project
Ana Kotevska Tracey
debated our ethnicity and right to self-determine. My national identity has been questioned and negated. Scornful customs officers scoffed at the name on my passport. Kids I met in the region kept telling me my country shouldn’t exist....
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- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
on the evening news speaking at a gay rights rally. I arrived at HBS in 1980. There seemed to be no one like me—a lefty, feminist English major, and most of all, gay—in this conservative, straight white male world, with a not...
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA Wind Sculpture (SG) V 2019 | About
School, 2021.1. © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. All Rights Reserved, DACS/ARS, NY 2023. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (British-Nigerian, born 1962), Wind Sculpture (SG) V, 2019, stainless steel armature with hand painted glass reinforced polyester...
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Kraft Accelerator
following these steps and aiming for this quality of deliverables you can place yourself on the right path. This is a cumulative process where each step builds on the previous one in sequential order. Steps to develop successful strategy...
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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
28, 2022 deadline. Applicants are accepted based on meeting all the requirements, and the Institute reserves the right to accept or decline any application. The Institute does not offer exclusivity to affiliate institutions in their...
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Ahmed Alimi
things done, cultivating relationships as well as leading people. I thought I needed these 'next level' skills and felt HBS was the right place to get them." Gradually, Ahmed also felt "a greater calling. I had been doing some...
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- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
content. At the same time, I’m managing my own internal dialogue about whether we are moving in the right direction. Maybe there’s a student who looks disengaged. There’s a student who’s emotional. There’s a student who has her hand up...
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- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
and some linguists argue the only way, to learn about the content of emotions. Knowing the actual content of an emotion is critical. The right type of emotion might be activated but involve the wrong content. For example, when an...
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
in the pod diffused into the image layer at the end of processing to neutralize the residual reagent, bring the processing action to a stop, form a protective surface layer, and create a stable, long-lasting print. The pod would have to release just the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
You were right all along. From being a left-wing-dominated party, we have become a centrist-dominated party. OK, maybe we remain one or two clicks to the left of you, but still pretty darn close. (And, yes, a lot of us agree the teachers’...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and then as a repo man for a bank. He was soon fired from both jobs. He was outspoken and liked to be left alone: the right temperament for a writer, but not for a business career. One year after graduating from the world’s most...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer is not entirely clear, I argue in this essay that any effort aimed at restoring...
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Salter, Malcolm S. "The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal…and What to Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-062, March 2024.
- 22 Feb 2022
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A World of Difference
differently about an issue, that is when we learn. So we can start building inclusion by making people realize that their worldview is not necessarily the right one and that they can all learn from one another. Frei: I grew up in a house...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
under-staffed facility,” Mukherjee explains in the case study. “Our goal cannot be to deliver care at the cheapest cost; it should be to have sufficient resources to do what is right for the patient.” One clear benefit of using...
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- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
muscle through. Keep on pushing and throw more resources at it. But often what a clear impasse signifies is that you need to stop and realize that your model does not capture the reality of your business right now and the reality of your...
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by Martha Lagace