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- 13 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
business, right? You take the entire required curriculum the first year of the MBA, plus electives in the second year. We've designed the five core courses to work in a sequence. So they build on each other....
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My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
do I need to read a book on nonprofit management? Isn't it just a subset of the for-profit world, with little difference in the tasks and perspectives of managers and board members? Cannot the tools, practices, and viewpoints developed...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2008
- Working Paper
Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox
By: Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote and Flemming Norrgren
We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of top American and European companies (incl. IKEA, Campbell Soups, Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between...
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Leadership;
Managerial Roles;
Performance;
Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Decision Choices and Conditions
Fredberg, Tobias, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, and Flemming Norrgren. "Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-052, January 2008.
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
remarkably well.—Nancy F. Koehn In Part Two, to appear in the April 23 update of HBS Working Knowledge, Koehn discusses the remarkable brand power created by Estée Lauder, Howard Schultz, and Michael Dell....
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
organization's culture affects its economic performance. The basic working hypotheses are that: (1) people put forth more effort and produce better results for organizations whose values they identify with, and (2) therefore, it's in the...
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by Jim Heskett
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- January 2008
- Article
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices....
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Investment;
Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Prejudice and Bias;
Value Creation
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
rather than drugs, which means companies don’t have to provide strict data about whether fairness creams actually work. Many of the lotions inhibit melanin production, but some dermatologists say that when the cream wears off, melanin...
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- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
to improve their financial situation by rushing new ventures to market. In doing so, they sacrifice quality standards and ultimately underperform their peers. This is particularly problematic in high tech, where entrants need strong...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
understand how people choose their work partners—and how those choices impact the results in a competitive or cooperative environment. Once their results are solidified in the lab the team will return View Details
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by Kim Girard
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
recognize how the sum is greater than its parts. While each team member played a role in your efforts, it is almost always how the team worked together that led to where you are now. Schedule a couple hours...
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by Julia Austin
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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
there are two reasons why CEOs should be cautious about overdoing the percentage of time interfacing with customers. First, marketing and selling should be a prime task of the CEO's direct reports, the individual business unit leaders. The CEO should not have View Details
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by John Quelch
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
How to Create a Presence Without Being Present
your business: who you are and what it’s like to work with you. Bring CPD to you CPD staffers travel far and frequently to meet with alumni and...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
soon- to-be MBA — entrepreneur intends to make a difference with his business education. “In 20 to 30 years, I hope to have created a venture where people have meaningful View Details
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
products and services. The event is burned into my mind. I became conscious of the fact that other senior executives with whom I worked were ignorant of their competitors’ products and services. Once, one of my sons ordered a Coca-Cola as...
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by James Heskett
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS
Immersion Elizabeth: I think the most important thing I learned from my FGI was that anything is possible. My group was able to work for a team of entrepreneurs that had started a sports gear company in...
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