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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
strategy in particular, you are talking in his language, and it makes you look smart." Successes can get people energized really quickly had nothing to do with the failure to expense options.—Cheryl Andrus, FranklinCovey Many...
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by Paul Michelman
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Entrepreneurship Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study traces the origins of innovative strategies by examining the attributes of 'innovative entrepreneurs.' In an inductive grounded theory study of innovative entrepreneurs, we...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
Nowitzki described, during a recent address to an executive education class at Harvard Business School: “I was never satisfied... I wanted to get the max out of my talent, out of my potential. After the season, I took a week or two weeks...
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- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a...
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by Michael Blanding
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
each branch of the armed services must make. Army and Marine Corps officers operate in an inherently uncertain environment. They define the mission but then give subordinates the flexibility to adjust to realities on the ground. This leadership experience tends to turn...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
the probability of success for ideas central to a strategy. Frequent testing has been especially relevant for retailers, whose merchandise displays offer endless opportunities to test product placement ideas. Now organizations whose businesses are primarily online have...
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- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
have steered huge strategy shifts at Intel Corp. and the Pentagon, for example. In 2011, Thinkers50 named him the world's most influential business thinker. At the same time, he has held major leadership positions in his church, and he's...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a Friday night fight every week of the year. The challenges posed by that sort of expansion are not lost on Cui, a Canadian native and former ESPN executive whose successes include selling the X Games to Chinese officials who had never...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
line with new technologies, so they are not interfering with the display of art or being frivolous with an art collection with which they've been entrusted." When Avery teaches the case to cultural organization directors through View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
minutes to gather my thoughts before answering. I quickly jotted down the strategy with which I wanted to attack the cold call, and I can say it went well. I always make it a point to participate in the classroom, so although this cold...
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Industry Information - Alumni
or recently public–that are worthy of consideration as places to start or continue a career in StartupLand. Strategy + Business Weekly news website published by certain member firms of the PwC network. It aims to "illuminate the complex...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors...
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Tech Power at HBS: Faculty Boost Technology Ecosystem
including Moon and Frei in the list, the Globe emphasizes the role academic institutions play in helping business leaders succeed. Youngme E. Moon, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, was recognized for "leadership in business education, culture, and...
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- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
VisiCalc is long gone—but the tech industry has embraced lessons learned by its experience that continue to shape strategy and decision-making of engineers and executives alike. Among those lessons: First,...
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- July 2013 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
TaKaDu
By: Elie Ofek and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an innovative software system that used patented algorithms and statistical analysis to...
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Innovation;
Customer Selection;
Business Marketing;
High-tech Marketing;
Enterprise Resource Planning;
Water Resources;
Water Management;
Utilities;
Product Positioning;
Expansion;
Resource Allocation;
Applications and Software;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Utilities Industry;
Australia;
Israel
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success...
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Carmen Nobel
- November 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (A)
By: W. Earl Sasser and Gamze Yucaoglu
At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated in Turkey, the company was operating in a very competitive environment with pressure on prices and, hence, cost...
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Service Excellence;
Customer Experience;
Customer Service;
Emerging Market;
Customer Focus;
Net Promoter Score;
Customer Relationship Management;
Competition;
Leading Change;
Service Operations;
Emerging Markets;
Customer Satisfaction;
Insurance Industry;
Turkey
Sasser, W. Earl, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 316-093, November 2015. (Revised February 2016.)
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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
providing resources for hiring is only a first step. Thus, HBS’s Division of Research and Faculty Development, the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting, and the Chair for Term Faculty commit to partnering and actively...
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- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as...
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Sean Silverthorne