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- 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.
- March 2010
- Article
Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a...
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Keywords:
Goals and Objectives;
Product;
Microfinance;
Decision Making;
Policy;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Gender;
Power and Influence;
Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin. "Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." World Development 38, no. 3 (March 2010): 333–344.
- 25 Feb 2011
- News
The New Path To the C-Suite
- 11 Feb 2020
- News
How People Succeed By Defying Expectations
- March 1999 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
SCORE! Educational Centers (D)
Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring and growing a small, self-owned company into a professional organization. Focuses on the steps Waldron takes to...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Employee Relationship Management;
Teaching;
Recruitment;
Education Industry;
United States
Burton, M. Diane, Jeffrey L. Bradach, and Naomi Atkins. "SCORE! Educational Centers (D)." Harvard Business School Case 499-059, March 1999. (Revised August 1999.)
- January 2015 (Revised July 2015)
- Case
Jimmy Choo
By: Anat Keinan and Sandrine Crener
Jimmy Choo is a British luxury accessories brand, specializing in shoes, handbags, accessories, and fragrances. Founded in 1996 in London by couture shoe designer Jimmy Choo and Vogue accessories editor Tamara Mellon OBE, the brand enjoyed immediate success and rapidly...
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Keywords:
Luxury Brand;
Fashion;
Designer Brand;
Shoe;
Fashion Accessories;
Retail;
Entrepreneurship;
Branding;
Brand Positioning;
New Market Development;
Entry Into China;
Luxury Chinese Market;
Global Brands;
Growth Strategy;
Jimmy Choo;
Christian Louboutin;
China;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Luxury;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Brands and Branding;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
China;
Great Britain
Keinan, Anat, and Sandrine Crener. "Jimmy Choo." Harvard Business School Case 515-073, January 2015. (Revised July 2015.)
- June 2005 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Corey Robinson at Sprint Corporation (A)
By: Linda A. Hill, Anthony Mayo and Lisa Pode
Corey Robinson is promoted to a new position at Sprint during a time of much internal change within the company. Asks readers to consider how he sets the tone to his new management team and how effective he is in building credibility in his new leadership role. A...
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Keywords:
Leadership Style;
Management Skills;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Effectiveness;
Personal Development and Career;
Power and Influence;
Telecommunications Industry
Hill, Linda A., Anthony Mayo, and Lisa Pode. "Corey Robinson at Sprint Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 405-094, June 2005. (Revised January 2008.)
- July 1996
- Case
Bayside Controls, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Jennifer Kochman and Sylvie Ryckebusch
Two recent MBA graduates acquire a small and ailing metal-machining company that had manufactured small aerospace components. Through clever application of state-of-the-art manufacturing, engineering, and marketing/sales concepts, they turned the company into a growing...
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Keywords:
Business Earnings;
Leveraged Buyouts;
Machinery and Machining;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Production;
Personal Development and Career;
Sales;
Aerospace Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Jennifer Kochman, and Sylvie Ryckebusch. "Bayside Controls, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-004, July 1996.
- September 2014
- Case
Balanced Scorecard at Delta/Signal Corp.
By: V.G. Narayanan
This auto parts company has just ousted its longtime CEO and founder, and the new, professional CEO is badly in need of a coherent strategy, clear objectives and metrics, and initiatives that are aligned with the strategy and objectives. Will the balanced scorecard...
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- Career Coach
Ellen Harris
Ellen (HGSE ’86) is the Director of Outward Bound Professional/Facilitator at Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional where she is responsible for business development and corporate team and View Details
Keywords:
Consulting;
Consumer Products;
Education;
Hospitality;
Manufacturing;
Retail;
Social Enterprise
- May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Corporate Governance;
Crisis Management;
Leadership;
Digital Platforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Decision Making;
Goals and Objectives;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Travel Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Service Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison Ciechanover. "Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test." Harvard Business School Case 221-050, May 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- August 2007
- Article
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
By: A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden
This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in...
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Banerjee, A., Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden. "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 3 (August 2007): 1235–1264.
- 09 Oct 2017
- News
Forged in Crisis
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
How to lead in a crisis
Unleashed
When leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to fix themselves. Should they?
When leaders want to improve, they will find no shortage of ideas to help them. They’re told to identify and develop their natural-born strengths, mine failures... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- News
New Harvard College dean
- Program
Leading in the Digital Era
that can transform your organization, deliver more value, and build competitive advantage, you will benefit from cutting-edge research into the culture of companies and leaders undergoing digital...
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- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety
Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization:...
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