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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
kicked out of the game?” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections In 1980, just as he was joining the HBS faculty, Bill Sahlman met an interesting character named Jeff Parker. Parker, then 37 years old, was in the View Details
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
goals and beliefs, particularly as new generations come into decision-making positions and may advocate for new strategies such as impact investing. Once a strategy is in place, selecting the right investments or funds requires extensive...
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- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the income-generating process is "fair" because effort is important (an "American" equilibrium) and another...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
barely able to pay back the interest, thus being perpetually in debt (often by refinancing). Studying such practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
global value chains and global competitors. And recruiting itself became global,” notes Palepu. As the nascent globalization process picked up steam in the 1990s, HBS began to grapple with its implications for the MBA Program, says...
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- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
to be the most efficient. The central insight of the theory is that each method offers a different way of aligning decision-making authority with valuable "specific knowledge" inside the organization. The theory suggests that...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
others. Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
and trained salespeople to focus on doing what was best for the customer rather than push a particular product to earn a commission. Other organizations have changed processes to enable representatives to focus on building customer...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
think even the graduates who enter an industry at precisely the wrong time end up suffering too badly: resilience and decision-making on the fly are two traits we try to inculcate in students before they graduate. Describe your version of...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues
unheard of to a time when women shape decision-making at the highest corporate levels. With the arrival of women students in the 1950s, when the School partnered with the Radcliffe Management Training Program, Associate Professor...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis Authors:Charles T. Horngren, George Foster, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav Rajan, and Chris Ittner Publication:13th ed. Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract Emphasizing the "different costs for different purposes," this text focuses on...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
suggests that treating planned organizational change as a generic phenomenon might mask important idiosyncrasies associated both with the different activities involved in the change implementation process and with the unique functions...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
easily show to their superiors to justify those decisions. The lower frequency of experimentation in their decision-making leaves employees in tightly monitored environments with few opportunities to learn. The researchers question...
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by Staff
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry, is scheduled to be published in April by Jossey-Bass. Mallory Stark: What is career imprinting? Monica Higgins: Career imprinting refers to the process by which individuals...
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by Mallory Stark
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
Streamline approvals. A complicated decision process can burden the fund with too many goals and lead to ineffective investing patterns. Provide powerful incentives. Companies that don't offer adequate compensation to their venture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
obsolescence built into the technology transfer agreement. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/712049-PDF-ENG Columbia's Final Mission (Abridged) (A) Amy C. Edmondson and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 612-095 This case documents View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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crucial activity for enabling coordinated action in pursuit of organizational performance. Our emphasis is on how GMs get things done through making and guiding both larger and smaller decisions. We show how to use decision-making View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
confuse decision-making processes in companies than contribute to them. Or at least, the scales were close enough in balance to make it an arguable proposition that these technologies that are supposed to...
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