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- March 1997 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Hospital Equipment Corporation
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Rory McDonald
Hospital Equipment Corp. is a very successful maker of hospital beds. Due to outstanding performance in new product development, it grew to dominate its primary market and is searching for other opportunities to grow through new product development. It discovers that...
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Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Opportunities;
Business Processes;
Product Development;
Technological Innovation;
Expansion;
Markets;
Problems and Challenges;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Christensen, Clayton M., and Rory McDonald. "Hospital Equipment Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 697-086, March 1997. (Revised October 2017.)
- 01 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting and Digesting
South East Asia, Australia, Russia, Middle East, and South America. GFG ticked all my boxes. I have never lived in Singapore or the region. It is one of the most emerging markets in the world, and I would be working in operations- far from my experience in View Details
John T. Dorrance
In 1899, Dorrance invented the process for making condensed soup, reducing canning and shipping costs by two-thirds. As a result of Dorrance’s invention, Campbell Soup became the first soup company to achieve national distribution. Within...
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Food & Tobacco
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
Management from 1960 to 2000," Nolan highlights the critical shifts in the four eras in the evolution of IT. The Industrial Era, he writes, created an automation mindset, while the Data Processing Era led to...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
August 2018 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are...
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- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
successors is one of the principal jobs of the CEO. It can't be done unless the CEO is driving that process—remember, the process is a critical part of how the company is managed over a period of years. It's...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and learn how an MBA in general management can open new doors for your professional and leadership development. Come learn...
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- 29 Mar 2023
2+2 Program and Admissions Virtual Information Session
Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and learn how an MBA in general management can open new doors for your professional and leadership development. Come learn...
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- 16 Mar 2022
HBS College Programs Information Table at Spelman College
Do you know where an MBA can take you? HBS offers four programs for college students that could be of interest to you including three preview experiences (Peek, Virtual Venture into Management, and the Summer Venture in Management...
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- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control, accountability, influence, and...
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by Robert Simons
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting
and a healthy dose of luck led me to corporate strategy at Capital One after college and to management consulting with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) this summer. Most of us are at HBS at least partially because we're trying to figure...
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Consulting
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After...
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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
huge if the company is based in a major metro. What are the biggest obstacles for companies that want to allow remote work? Choudhury: I feel the biggest obstacle is changing the organizational processes for how communication and...
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by Kristen Senz
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
That includes, especially, an understanding of the open standards process through which the Internet was built, with engineers stacking one set of open protocols on top of another from the physical—how you plug the wires together—through...
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by Kenneth Liss
- March 2002 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
EMCF: A New Approach at an Old Foundation
By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
Michael Bailin, president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF), embarked on a three-year effort to transform the foundation's grant-making in theory and practice. This case details his efforts to move from an "initiatives-based" approach in philanthropy to a...
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Business Model;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Leadership;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Expectations;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Cognition and Thinking;
Customization and Personalization;
Theory
Grossman, Allen S., and Daniel F. Curran. "EMCF: A New Approach at an Old Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 302-090, March 2002. (Revised June 2002.)
- September 2000
- Teaching Note
MarketSoft TN
Teaching Note for (9-800-069).
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