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- 01 Jan 2014
- News
IDEO’s Culture of Helping
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
PRIMO 2021: An Introduction to Research
- Web
Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community CollegeSmall Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply tools and frameworks to effectively allocate resources, determine which projects to pursue, and deepen your...
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Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case
Every executive who applies to the HBS Advanced Management Program (AMP) is likely facing some business challenges that keep them up at night. Issues on their mind might be anything from a tough strategic decision or distressing financial View Details
- September 2016
- Article
The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions
By: Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li and George Serafeim
Targets are an integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance objective—reduction of carbon emissions—as a setting in which to examine how target...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Target-setting;
Management Accounting;
Management Accounting And Control Systems;
Control Systems;
Sustainable Development;
Environment;
Goals and Objectives;
Climate Change;
Management Systems;
Accounting;
Environmental Sustainability
Ioannou, Ioannis, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. "The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions." Accounting Review 91, no. 5 (September 2016): 1467–1492.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH
By: Danielle Li
Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This paper develops a framework for separately identifying...
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Li, Danielle. "Expertise vs. Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-053, October 2015.
- 07 Oct 2013
- News
The Daily Circuit: Manufacturing may be on its way back
- 13 May 2019
- News
Making History More Relevant, One Case At A Time
- 01 Nov 2022
- Video
Introducing Pathways to Inclusive Entrepreneurship
- 16 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?
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by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
Six Myths of Product Development
Many companies approach product development as if it were manufacturing, trying to control costs and improve quality by applying zero-defect, efficiency-focused techniques. While this tactic can boost the performance of factories, it generally backfires with...
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- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Data-Driven and in Demand
After graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, Chloe Ho (MBA 2019) began her post-undergrad career in New York working for Morgan Stanley. While there, she served in a strategy and analytics role, working on projects for...
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- 19 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Aspen Fellowship: MBA Student Launches Program Supporting Black Undergrads
Introducing The Aspen Fellowship, a 6-week program helping black undergrad students build the skills they need to jumpstart their careers. Brian Hollins (MBA 2021) is building the Aspen Fellowship, a 6-week program that provides black undergraduate students with the...
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- 27 Sep 2015
- News
Pharma gives drug development the Hollywood treatment
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
New Guidelines to Help Companies Report on Sustainability Issues
- November 2017
- Case
Outrageous Ambition: Duke University
By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the...
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Keywords:
Duke University;
University Governance;
Internationalization;
Duke Kunshan University;
Interdisciplinarity;
Higher Education;
Interdisciplinary Studies;
Global Strategy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business History;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategic Planning;
Education Industry;
United States;
China;
Singapore
Kirby, William C., and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Outrageous Ambition: Duke University." Harvard Business School Case 318-043, November 2017.
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B): Nurturing Entrepreneurs and Change Agents
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Thirty-one "change agents" at Sun Microsystems, Inc. told the story of their most recent significant change project: its origins and goals, the project team, the chronology of the work, the challenges, results, and lessons learned. Their stories answer two questions:...
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- January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (A)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Briana Doerr Luthra
Describes the Mahindra & Mahindra Group's approach to innovation. The Group is among the top industrial houses in India and its managing director Anand Mahindra has put innovation at the core of its growth strategy. Emphasis is placed on managing the balance between...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Marketing;
Business Processes;
Product;
Innovation Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Demand and Consumers;
Auto Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
India
Thomke, Stefan H., and Briana Doerr Luthra. "Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-065, January 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- December 2018 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team
By: Michael Luca, Ariella Kristal and Emilie Billaud
This case explores how neuroscientist Mariam Chammat helped set up the first behavioral insights team at the center of the French government, and encouraged French administrations to innovate and create policy initiatives based on psychological theories of influence...
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Keywords:
Choice Architecture;
Behavioral Economics;
Experiments;
Negotiation;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Taxation;
Entrepreneurship;
Consumer Behavior;
Public Administration Industry;
Europe;
France;
Paris
Luca, Michael, Ariella Kristal, and Emilie Billaud. "Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team." Harvard Business School Case 919-015, December 2018. (Revised June 2020.)