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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
Energy Future’s timeliness underscores another key “energy” problem: America’s inability to get its energy act into gear. “Cognitive, organizational, and political barriers — which are all interconnected — must be surmounted if we are to View Details
- 8 AM – 8 PM MDT, 18 May 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
HBS Hacks: Solving For The Future of Work in San Francisco
Collaborate with fellow HBS alumni to create the actionable solutions to one of societys most vexing challenges.
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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
to solve the problem - is an organization in trouble. Are there other lessons? We've awakened to the fact that in software, total quality counts. In the 1960s, we assumed that the replacement cycle would...
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- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
Click HereHarvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke describes how his Executive Education students use LEGO blocks to design customer experiences. (Video by Executive Education) Why do some product or service experiences have enough pizzazz to wow customers,...
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- Apr 24 2017
- Interview
Transforming HR Executives into Business Leaders
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leaderand How to Be One
It sounds almost paradoxical. A quiet leader? Yet quiet leaders—managers who apply modesty, restraint, and tenacity to solve particularly difficult problems—are more common than we think, says Harvard Business School professor Joseph L....
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2012
- News
How To Be Creative
- 06 Apr 2022
- News
How to Use Correlation to Make Predictions
- November 2009
- Supplement
Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley
This case updates students on the steps Greg James took to solve the problems that instigated the crisis documented in “Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A).” We find out how James solves the process problems involved in his team's breakdown...
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Customer Satisfaction;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Crisis Management;
Service Delivery;
Business Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Technology Industry
Neeley, Tsedal. "Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 410-020, November 2009.
- 20 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies
- 2019
- Chapter
The Case Method
By: Joseph L. Bower
The case method was developed concurrently with the emergence of business schools as a way of teaching future executives evidence-based problem solving in the classroom. Harvard Business School faculty led in developing the method. A particular challenge in the writing...
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Case Method;
Case Studies;
Case Teaching;
Problem-based Learning;
Cases;
Learning;
Teaching
Bower, Joseph L. "The Case Method." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Continuously updated edition, edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Electronic. (Pre-published, June 2016.)
- 26 Mar 2011
- News
Meet 'Future You.' Like What You See?
- May 2006
- Exercise
Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Kerry Herman
Provides a framework for team problem solving and process improvement following concepts widely attributed to Toyota Motor Co.
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Wheelwright, Steven C., and Kerry Herman. "Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 606-147, May 2006.
- Spring 2021
- Article
Building Cities' Collaborative Muscle
By: Jorrit De Jong, Amy C. Edmondson, Mark Moore, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Jan Rivkin, Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo and Santiago Pulido-Gomez
The most pressing social problems facing cities today require multiagency and cross-sector solutions. We offer tools and techniques to facilitate the process of diagnosing and solving problems by breaking down silos to build up cities.
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Collaboration;
Cross-sector Collaboration;
City;
Governance;
Problems and Challenges;
Cooperation
De Jong, Jorrit, Amy C. Edmondson, Mark Moore, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Jan Rivkin, Eva Flavia Martínez Orbegozo, and Santiago Pulido-Gomez. "Building Cities' Collaborative Muscle." Stanford Social Innovation Review (website) (Spring 2021).
- 14 Dec 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Nonprofit Boards: It is Time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System
- 15 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy
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by Mihnea Moldoveanu
- 05 Aug 2010
- News
And the winner is...
- February 1985
- Background Note
Note on How to Approach POM Cases
Presents a general approach to diagnosing and solving problems in management, especially in production situations with ambiguous problems.
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Bohn, Roger E. "Note on How to Approach POM Cases." Harvard Business School Background Note 685-061, February 1985.