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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan...
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by Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Chapter
Leadership in a Globalizing World
In this chapter, world-renowned business expert, author, and Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter asks the question, "Is leadership different in a globalizing world--one of broadening horizons and burgeoning sources of ideas and supplies--than in...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Leadership;
Research;
Complexity;
Diversity
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Leadership in a Globalizing World." Chap. 20 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- Research Summary
Overview
My current research builds on past research on the role of information, analytics and technology in transforming business and society. Over the past two years, this research focuses on how organizations partner to build innovation ecosystems that accelerate the...
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Innovation Ecosystems;
Leadership And Change Management;
Organizational Adaptation;
Innovation and Invention;
Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Organizations;
Technology;
Strategy;
Technology Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Industry;
Africa;
North and Central America;
Middle East
- 24 Nov 2021
- News
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick Needs to Resign Right Now
- December 2017 (Revised December 2018)
- Course Overview Note
The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2019 Spring Term
By: Paul Gompers
This note serves as an overview of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit’s required curriculum course, "The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM)." General management has been a core educational organizing framework at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since its inception. Today...
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Gompers, Paul. "The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2019 Spring Term." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 818-080, December 2017. (Revised December 2018.)
- December 2016
- Course Overview Note
The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2017 Winter Term
By: Paul Gompers
This note serves as an overview of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit’s required curriculum course, "The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM)." General management has been a core educational organizing framework at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since its inception. Today...
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Gompers, Paul. "The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2017 Winter Term." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 817-079, December 2016.
- Web
Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online
Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Professor Nien-he Hsieh Develop a toolkit for making tough leadership decisions. 6 weeks, 7-9 hrs/weekApply by May 28$1,750Certificate Organizational Leadership Professors Joshua Margolis & Anthony Mayo Elevate your leadership...
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- June 2007 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project
By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett
In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up with "Imagination Breakthroughs," innovative new projects that would serve as the centerpiece of GE's organic growth initiative. Follows the company as these changes are driven through the...
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Innovation and Management;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A., Brian J. Hall, and Nicole Bennett. "GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project." Harvard Business School Case 907-048, June 2007. (Revised June 2008.)
- Teaching Interest
Financial Reporting and Control
By: Suraj Srinivasan
Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) covers topics about how managers can design and use performance measurement systems for external reporting and internal management to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details
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Financial Reporting
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in...
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- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
that day hold lessons, some of them for business managers. Roberto's new working paper describes how. Here follows an excerpt from "Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System...
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by Michael A. Roberto
- Teaching Interest
Managing Service Operations - MBA Elective Curriculum
By: Ryan W. Buell
World-class service organizations deeply understand the needs and behaviors of their customers, and design, manage, and improve their operating models accordingly. This course investigates the distinct challenges inherent in leading service operations, which make up... View Details
- 28 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA
management skills that you can put to use in any career and in any kind of organization – from for-profit businesses to non-profit organizations, from your own start-up to the world’s largest companies, and...
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- 2018
- Speaking truth: Mobilizing Change Through Artistic Expression
How I Found My Voice
- 24 Sep 2018
- News
How To Drive Digital Transformation In A Changing World
- 2019
- Article
Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'
By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons...
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Keywords:
Crowdsourcing;
Culture Change;
Open Innovation;
Center Of Excellence;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management
Richard, Elizabeth E., Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'." Strategy & Leadership 47, no. 3 (2019): 19–26.
- September 2000
- Background Note
Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
Concerns itself with the strategic dynamics which influence organizations externally.
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Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Service Operations;
For-Profit Firms;
Power and Influence;
Measurement and Metrics;
Business Processes;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-008, September 2000.
- January–February 2014
- Article
IDEO's Culture of Helping
By: Teresa Amabile, Colin M. Fisher and Julianna Pillemer
Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the highest-performing companies, it is a norm that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency...
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Management Style;
Behavior;
Attitudes;
Organizational Culture;
Relationships;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer. "IDEO's Culture of Helping." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2014): 54–61.
- February 2010 (Revised January 2014)
- Supplement
CommonAngels (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kaitlyn Simpson
This case discusses changes in CommonAngels' investment model and organization between 2005 and 2009.
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Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Organizational Structure;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Financial Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kaitlyn Simpson. "CommonAngels (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 810-011, February 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
- January 2002 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Strategic Planning at NFTE
By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), is a successful nonprofit poised on the verge of explosive growth. The senior management contracted with McKinsey consultants to help guide the process. The founders of NFTE brought it from a small program...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Partners and Partnerships;
Nonprofit Organizations
Grossman, Allen S., and Daniel F. Curran. "Strategic Planning at NFTE." Harvard Business School Case 302-002, January 2002. (Revised November 2010.)