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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
year. "It was an incredibly aggressive timetable," remembers MacCormack, who was part of a team of ten faculty members from different disciplines who would be required to integrate their knowledge. Adding another wrinkle, Nohria...
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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
less fearful of imminent takeover, yet the pressure remains: They face shareholders who wonder why they aren't getting private-equity-level returns. Rather than dismiss the value private equity has created as manipulated or aberrant, public company leaders should...
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Sean Silverthorne
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
music; the politics of art music as a category; and the embodied improvisations that shape music perception. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
keep great senior faculty engaged in the work of the School for as long as possible. We also must ensure that the next generation is prepared to follow in their footsteps. We are approaching this on two levels. First, we are recruiting from a wide variety of View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Speculations, edited by M. Anson. London: The Business Archives Council, 2008 Abstract Among the most longstanding criticisms of business history as an academic discipline is the bias caused towards studying successful firms rather than...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
led to economic development and were therefore emulated in other nations at the time. The idea for it probably came from my love of old books, which allowed me to see quite starkly the discrepancy between past and present fame in the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
its anatomy, which has worked well in other high-tech sectors, can't handle the fundamental challenges facing drug R&D: profound, persistent uncertainty and high risks rooted in the limited knowledge of human biology; the need for the diverse View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
historians have contended with in their work. Collectively, the authors provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
time to take stock. Has the idea of ERM reached maturity with proven, unambiguous concepts and tools? Or is it still emerging and unproven? Or is it simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand? This paper portrays ERM as an evolving...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
faculty across a wide spectrum of disciplines including business history, entrepreneurship, finance, and organizational behavior have made creativity and innovation primary subjects of focus. What is surprising is just how teachable they...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Underlying this change is a story of foresighted strategy and disciplined execution—of connecting knowing to doing. In strategic terms, the IBM transformation illustrates the ideas behind dynamic capabilities, showing how the company has...
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Martha Lagace
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
(2001), and Immunity to Change (2009) have been published in over a dozen languages. Her latest book, An Everyone Culture, published by the Harvard Business Press, will be out this spring, 2016. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one...
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
the coming year. The goal is to sustain and expand these financial resources over the long term, furthering the School’s core programs and supporting the faculty's mission-driven research agenda. As always, we remain committed to acting as responsible and View Details
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the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Design. The mix of students from diverse disciplines will contribute to both student learning and the range of solutions proposed for the entrepreneurial challenges faced by the...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and measure yourself against accordingly. Learn quickly what your true "drivers" are—what really motivates and energizes you—and then pursue a career that is coherent with them. If you follow your passion with competence (heart) and View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
micro-foundations for formulating and solving strategic problems. It shows how the languages and disciplines of theoretical computer science, “artificial intelligence,” and computational complexity theory can be used to devise a set of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
criteria. Hang Lung Properties is known for rigorous due diligence, for discipline in buying property, and for good understanding of market cycles. The (B) case reveals the firms assumptions in the Chengdu situation, as compared to what...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The paper describes the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
natural experiment that required agents to describe commissions for a specific product caused agents to shift recommendations to an alternative product, which had even higher commissions but no disclosure requirement. We do find some scope for market View Details
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Sean Silverthorne