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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
Aligning Strategy and Sales, to give us a glimpse into how it's done. Working Knowledge: Why is it so important for companies to create a stronger connection between their strategic priorities and their go-to-market initiatives? How...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
recognize and foster creativity in themselves and others, Amabile maintains, "I'm not trying to teach people to be creative, though sometimes it is a by-product of my course. Rather, I help students to sustain their own creativity in the View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as submarines and aircraft carriers, are trained to follow processes to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According to Khurana, the schools first emphasized that managers should carry...
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- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by...
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by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the team was able to draw some conclusions about how the companies performed individually and as a hypothetical portfolio. They were also able to make some observations about how investor behavior contributed to the success of individual IC members. The students View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent government...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of consumer products, so Mittal...
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Julia Hanna
- Web
Art Nature Business
woodgrain veneers purchased from hardware stores in different countries, he creates a collaged image of that place, fragment by fragment. While the resulting work may look like intarsia—the decorative wood...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
equation" seems to be at the forefront of each of their leaders' minds. "I really believe that the most important competitive element a company has are the people who work in it," notes Boise Cascade's Harad. Harad prefers to lead by...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
something” Khaire: In the literature it is called a "blending strategy." The idea is there are multiple worlds in our society, and people are judged differently in each world. Take any individual and she behaves differently and has different values in the...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
completion times, our work highlights the tradeoffs between the time required to exercise discretion and the potential gains from doing so, which has implications for how discretion over scheduling should be delegated. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present six studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical judgments of...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
participation is critical to prosperity because the more people who work as a proportion of the total working-age population, the higher per capita income will be whatever the wage level. All of this is threatening the American dream, the...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed account managers who served JLL's corporate clients. Markets housed brokers specialized in a certain geography. JLL helped drive integration between Accounts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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edge by getting out in front of these trends? New labor models. Will remote work and the gig economy lead to fragmentation of the employment relationship? Will it change the geography of firms? We will...
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