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- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
for example, was a banner year for bad news, with thirty late-stage clinical failures of biotech drugs, he said. The online magazine Signals, which is published by Recombinant Capital, a consulting firm that works on biotechnology...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
Credit: iStockPhoto Who are the editors of HBS Working Knowledge most thankful for as the new year begins? It’s the readers who take time to contribute comments to our stories, more than 1,000 in 2017. Since our readership extends to more...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
protection in Thailand, Alphatec Electronics Pcl had over 1,200 different secured and unsecured creditors, located in dozens of countries. And restructuring often produces wholesale changes in the firm's assets, business operations, and...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 2014
- Article
Where Global and Virtual Meet: The Value of Examining the Intersection of These Elements in Twenty-First-Century Teams
By: Cristina B. Gibson, Laura Huang, Bradley L. Kirkman and Debra L. Shapiro
We review prior research that has examined virtuality in teams (e.g., pertaining to the use of electronic media) or the global nature of teams (e.g., national and cultural differences), demonstrating that very few scholars have examined both simultaneously. Given that...
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Global Virtual Teams;
Cultural Diversity;
Electronic Communication;
Computer-mediated Communication;
Groups and Teams;
Global Range;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Interactive Communication
Gibson, Cristina B., Laura Huang, Bradley L. Kirkman, and Debra L. Shapiro. "Where Global and Virtual Meet: The Value of Examining the Intersection of These Elements in Twenty-First-Century Teams." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 1 (2014): 217–244.
- 30 Jan 2015
- News
Meet the lone Super Bowl veteran who works in Boston’s startup scene
- Web
1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials - MBA
1. Academic Information & Policies 1.21 Use of Course Work & Materials Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 1.1 HBS Community Values 1.2 MBA Honor Code 1.3 Academic Calendar 1.4 Academic Program...
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- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
service providers—that are hiring to fill new demand. Also, remote work will quickly become more the norm than the exception on the other side of the pandemic, so organizations should start learning now how to prepare for the View Details
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by Boris Groysberg
- 20 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music
From the time I arrived at HBS, I knew that my path to finding a summer internship wouldn’t be very traditional. Although I’ve managed to find others that share my career interests, working in the music industry remains an uncommon path...
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Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 02 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams
- November 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
reMarkable: e-Writing the Future
By: Elie Ofek and Curtis Hsu
Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having solved the frustrating “slow ink” problem typically experienced on pen-based electronic devices, thus providing a “pen and paper” like...
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Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Innovation Management;
Go To Market Strategy;
Marketing Plan;
Target Market;
Digital Devices;
Consumer Electronics;
Forecasting;
Information Technology;
Marketing Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Marketing Channels;
Entrepreneurship;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Product Marketing;
Product Development;
Electronics Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Curtis Hsu. "reMarkable: e-Writing the Future." Harvard Business School Case 517-018, November 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design
By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on...
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Monitoring;
Supplier Relationship;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Sustainable Operations;
Sustainable Supply Chains;
NGO;
Globalization;
Corporate Accountability;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Supply Chain Management;
Labor;
Working Conditions;
Business Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Evaluation;
Safety;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
China;
Indonesia;
India;
Bangladesh
Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill. "Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-001, July 2016. (Revised September 2019. Formerly titled "Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions" and "Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics.")
- Research Summary
Overview
Patient Portals: The Provider Role
Patient portals are widespread, but evidence of impact is limited. In this study, we use a large dataset spanning 2 years and >1 million patients across 650 primary care practices to explore the "other side" of portals: health... View Details
Patient portals are widespread, but evidence of impact is limited. In this study, we use a large dataset spanning 2 years and >1 million patients across 650 primary care practices to explore the "other side" of portals: health... View Details
- May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens
By: Willy Shih
This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the...
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Big Data;
Internet Of Things;
Internet Of Everything;
Industrie 4.0;
Digital Factory;
Digital Enterprise;
Digital Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Production Management;
Production Planning;
Computer Software;
Germany;
German Manufacturing;
Machinery and Machining;
Information Technology;
Digital Platforms;
Technological Innovation;
Production;
Supply Chain;
Applications and Software;
Information Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Analytics and Data Science;
Manufacturing Industry;
Germany
Shih, Willy. "Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens." Harvard Business School Case 616-060, May 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
shareholders and is a money-making machine,” he says. “But no, a company is a human organization made up of individuals working together in pursuit of a goal.” Leading with purpose and humanity Based on his own track record in...
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- 12 Mar 2020
- Video
Robert Brozin
Robert Brozin, the co-Founder of Nando’s, a South African-based restaurant chain specializing in Portuguese food, discusses how he started the business with Fernando Duarte, after tiring of being an auditor and...
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- December 2001
- Case
Alibaba.com (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Fred Young
The challenges the largest Chinese electronic commerce company faces many challenges at the end of 2001. This case describes how it has completely reoriented its strategy in the past 12 months to become a B-to-B company. The key question is: Will it work and what...
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Business or Company Management;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Technology Industry;
China;
United States
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Fred Young. "Alibaba.com (B)." Harvard Business School Case 302-073, December 2001.
- January 1992 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
Lexon Corp. (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
A general manager at Lexon Computer Corp. must decide whether interception and surveillance of employees' e-mail is acceptable company practice, and whether to follow the advice of his computer operations manager who wants to fire the person who complained that the...
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Information;
Rights;
Managerial Roles;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Ethics;
Computer Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Lexon Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 392-071, January 1992. (Revised August 1992.)
- December 2007
- Article
Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing
Electronic clinical data exchange promises substantial financial and societal benefits, but it is unclear whether and when it will become widespread. In early 2007 we surveyed 145 regional health information organizations (RHIOs), the U.S. entities working to establish...
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Information Technology;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Management;
Health Industry;
United States
Adler-Milstein, Julia Rose, Andrew McAfee, David Bates, and Ashish Jha. "Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing." Web Exclusive Health Affairs (December 2007): w60–w69.
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
furnace when it is at the right working temperature and uses a variety of tools to blow, cut, or deform it into the desired shape using skilled hands and air pressure from the mouth. These are skills that he or she developed over many...
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Rafael M. Di Tella
I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details