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- September 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Videogames: Clouds on the Horizon?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Kerry Herman
Since the creation of the first videogame systems in the 1970s, the videogame industry has undergone numerous transformations as new technologies and market entrants fundamentally changed the gaming experience of customers. In the early 21st century, customers began...
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Hagiu, Andrei, and Kerry Herman. "Videogames: Clouds on the Horizon?" Harvard Business School Case 713-424, September 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Structuring Consulting Firms
By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand
This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Management Practices and Processes;
Demand and Consumers;
Service Operations;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Projects;
Groups and Teams;
Consulting Industry;
Service Industry
Morris, Tim, Heidi K. Gardner, and N. Anand. "Structuring Consulting Firms." In The Oxford Handbook of Management Consulting, edited by Matthias Kipping and Timothy Clark. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 14 Oct 2013
- News
Intelligent Redesign of Health Care
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
Issue salience and political stereotypes
- October 2013
- Article
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
By: Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee
In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Strategy;
Value;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Porter, Michael E., and Thomas H. Lee. "The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 50–70.
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
fundamental way the company makes money, with customers and clients in mind. That strategic use of principles based on end-to-end responsibility is illustrated by one of Cemex's international initiatives.
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Article
Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective
By: Sven Kunisch, Markus Menz and David J. Collis
The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a...
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Keywords:
Corporate Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Business Headquarters
Kunisch, Sven, Markus Menz, and David J. Collis. "Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective." Art. 22. Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020): 1–32.
- 2016
- Book
The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation
By: Vijay Govindarajan
How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are...
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Govindarajan, Vijay. The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.
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Curriculum - MBA
year of study and establishes a common foundation in the fundamental practices of business including finance, marketing, leadership, negotiation, operations, strategy, and more. All students participate in the same set of classes within...
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- April 2003
- Module Note
Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Discusses the design and management of clinical processes in health care. Presents a framing of the clinical process as a problem-solving process that fundamentally involves learning along two dimensions and at least two levels. The two dimensions are: 1) learning in...
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Keywords:
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Service Delivery;
Management Practices and Processes;
Learning;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J. "Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The." Harvard Business School Module Note 603-107, April 2003.
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
O Próximo Capítulo do Nubank
- 20 Jan 2020
- News
Larry Fink Isn’t Going to Read Your Sustainability Report
The First Four Healthy Building Strategies Every Building Should Pursue to Reduce Risk from COVID-19
The Lancet COVID-19 Commission was an interdisciplinary initiative encompassing the health sciences, business, finance, and public policy. The Lancet COVID-19...
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- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
think the fundamental issue is not the rate of adoption of the e-reader, or whether publishers will survive in their current form, or what their role will be in the future," Olson comments. "The View Details
- July – August 2009
- Article
Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance
By: Sebastian Raisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman
Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues that are fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through...
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Keywords:
Change;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Research;
Integration
Raisch, Sebastian, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst, and Michael Tushman. "Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance." Organization Science 20, no. 4 (July–August 2009): 685–695.
- October 2006
- Case
Lean at Wipro Technologies
Wipro Technologies, a rapidly growing software services firm based in India, decided to use principles from the Toyota Production System (also known as lean) to fundamentally change their operating model. Looks at why Wipro chose to use lean and how they went about...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Advantage;
Applications and Software;
Operations;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Upton, David M., and Bradley R. Staats. "Lean at Wipro Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 607-032, October 2006.
- 06 Jul 2022
- News
The Political Polarization of Corporate America
Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization
This text offers a unique real-world perspective on laws related to business organization. Logical and flexible chapters can be taught in any order to accommodate alternative teaching approaches. Chapters One through Four cover the fundamentals of organizational law in...
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- September 24, 2021
- Article
A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
By: Li Jin, Scott Duke Kominers and Lila Shroff
Platforms are fundamentally changing the contract between workers and companies—and the workers and creatives that create value for platform companies, and rely on platforms for their livelihoods, often have little power when it comes to getting their concerns...
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Keywords:
Gig Workers;
Decentralized Collective Action;
Internet and the Web;
Labor;
Labor and Management Relations;
Digital Platforms
Jin, Li, Scott Duke Kominers, and Lila Shroff. "A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 24, 2021).
- Working Paper
Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo
This study examines the spatial distribution of Muslim societies shedding light on its geographic origins. The empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries, and ethnicities establishes that geographic inequality and proximity to pre-Islamic trade...
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, and Giovanni Prarolo. "Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18438, October 2013.