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- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t... View Details
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Josh Bronstein
practice trapeze tricks I learned that summer. If my job could be that fun, I reasoned, it wouldn't be work. I want to spend my life helping others realize that their work, too, can be that fun. I want to engage, motivate, develop, and View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
national discussion about how technology and innovation are transforming the way government agencies serve citizens and perform vital functions." + – Healthcare FierceHealthcare Provides the latest industry news and analysis on the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
HBS Global Voices: International Student Insights
triumphs, and unique perspectives. If you aspire to be a leader who makes a difference in the world, this event promises to equip you with the knowledge, inspiration, and support needed to embark on your own transformative journey from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
social or environmental responsibilities are embedded in a company’s fiduciary duties. Naive as it may sound, the evidence is there, says Jones: “Business has this amazing ability to innovate, to come up with creative solutions. It employs huge numbers of people and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
including the potential to transform a business sector. The top-rated teams have the chance to present their ideas in front of a panel of judges, each of whom has achieved aesthetic star power in their own professional domain. This year’s... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
valence." Common wisdom says that the best way to overcome anxiety is to calm yourself down, creating an emotion with low arousal and positive valence. But enacting a transformation across two axes at once is difficult to achieve.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
those floating around in the industry." (Vanitha Rangganathan); and "We chase stars because we are fallible Glamor always is enticing." (Vadeed Lobo) Women are particularly successful in porting their skills because " women are more associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 2022
- Book
O Coração do Negócio Os princípios de liderança e a chave para o sucesso
By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
Joly, Hubert, and Caroline Lambert. O Coração do Negócio Os princípios de liderança e a chave para o sucesso. Editorial Presença, 2022, Portuguese ed.
- March 24, 2014
- Article
Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran
While the Obama team deserves high marks for launching the interim talks, its approach doesn't sell the upside of a comprehensive deal persuasively enough to transform more Iranian skeptics into active supporters—a necessary condition for success if there is an... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Nuclear; Conflict Resolution; Winning Coalition; Blocking Coalition; Strategy; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia; Negotiation; International Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Public Administration Industry; France; Germany; Iran; China; Great Britain; United States; Russia
Sebenius, James K. "Like a Boss: How Corporate Negotiators Would Handle Nuclear Talks With Iran." ForeignPolicy.com (March 24, 2014).
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
choice." For people not wishing to manage their funds, they are automatically placed in a balanced fund of investments. In India, the public sector in 2004 was transformed "from a defined benefit to a defined contribution... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
better out of the office, say while out in the boat or at a conference, so that looks very much like not working!!" Among other things, Krishna Sripad suggested fostering "an environment where transformation is 'truly'... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
Harper Business Books (1997). It examined the massive transformation process of companies that began in the 1990s. So The Individualized Corporation looked at the implications of this transformation. We concluded that the downsizing,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Doctoral Programs. Information Technology staffing also was a key investment area in fiscal 2023, as HBS began to ramp up its digital transformation and continued to strengthen the security of its data infrastructure. Fellowships The... View Details
- May 2016 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; United States; Canada
Esty, Benjamin C., and E. Scott Mayfield. "Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern." Harvard Business School Case 216-057, May 2016. (Revised September 2017.)
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
The Case Centre Classic Case Collection in 2021. Anthony Mayo : Received the 2021 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Tsedal Neeley : Selected by Business Insider as one of the 100 people transforming business... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
that we call the ‘high-impact entrepreneur.’” There are three things that define high-impact to Endeavor. First is having the commercial skills to create something that’s large and successful, creating a lot of jobs and revenue. Second is doing something that’s... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- August 2014
- Case
Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
In 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Prizes; Digitization; Algorithms; Recommendation Software; Disruption; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Lakhani, Karim R., Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar, and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa. "Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)." Harvard Business School Case 615-015, August 2014.
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
surprise. Through HCI connections, I have been able to share patient engagement strategies with executives at several NPOs and meet with multiple biotech VCs, which has resulted in a promising biotech partnership. As we celebrate Rare Disease Day, I reflect on how... View Details