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- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
have mastered the core competencies, have a high EQ, and work for the right company for them. The latter requires thinking about the level of technical skill the company requires, its philosophy of the PM role, the stage of the company,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
does business management mean in this context? For some MBA students, the answers are something of an awakening. The ways that they have traditionally added value—by implementing top-notch business practices, using deep analytical skills...
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- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
skills that are embedded in the workforce, competitors, suppliers, customers, cooperative R&D ventures, and universities and often support multiple industrial sectors. Although industrial commons are largely supported by private...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
organizations prefer to diversify into product categories with three features: high levels of fit with the organization’s current clients, campaigns, and strategies; appealing market features, defined as highly integrated, predictable, low-risk supply chains and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
competitive advantage"-and one of their core skills has to be quick and effective response when the travelers on one of their trips are exposed to flood, famine, pestilence, disease, earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorism, and other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
teamwork in decision-making, the challenges of group decision-making, and the strategies for engaging team learning skills and attitudes to improve both the quality of and commitment to group decisions. Purchase the exercise:...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
examples of success using both approaches. The key is to become skilled at the entrepreneurial innovation process as you search for ideas in the face of disruption, turn ideas into opportunities, choose opportunities to pursue,...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Central Europe is very much like going to Mexico, he says. Yet as Central Europe is integrated into the European Union, it is still important for managers to keep in mind that wage rates also tend to rise very quickly there, particularly for View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
coordinate with one another to reduce costs and ensure that patients were receiving the highest quality of care. PatientPing sold its platform to a range of customers, from small skilled nursing facilities to large health systems, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
the continued success of the multi-sourcing strategy, including restructuring the IT group, developing the skills of its staff, and starting a captive center. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815002-PDF-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
will want to convince your company to develop an innovative product. Perhaps you will want to convince your board of directors that it is worth developing a new market segment. This exercise helps students practice the skill of getting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear,...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
showing the huge challenges faced in building modern businesses in the new Republic of Turkey, founded in 1923 out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. These challenges included a dearth of capital and skilled talent. The chapter explores...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
related systems: incentives, risk management and control, accounting, human capital, and culture. The worst firms had lethal combinations of strong incentives, weak control and risk management, flawed internal and external accounting, low View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
novel Look Homeward, Angel and cut its length by almost one-third. Had an editor of Perkins's talents applied his skills to Business Cycles, the book might well have fulfilled—and exceeded—Schumpeter's ambitions.16 The reorganized work...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
venture fund, you made an Option B choice at the time of the sale. And if you sold your stake in December 1999 and then sailed around the world or began work on a series of nonprofit ventures, you made an Option C choice at the time you sold your stock. The final View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
limit the opportunities to develop people who are "dual-faceted" and good at both the sales functions and the marketing functions. But, some companies successfully try to hire people who have good "cross-over" skills...
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by Benson Shapiro
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
308-043 Still Leading (B2): Hon. Michael Bloomberg—From Mogul to Mayor Describes how New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took his leadership skills from the business world to the challenges of government. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
skills of noteworthy leaders and then trying to remember and apply them where appropriate. The course is not designed to merely leave the students with knowledge (that is not designed to leave students "knowing" about leaders...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
increasingly central role in tech companies—tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists have accepted positions in the technology sector. In this paper, we explore the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman