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- July 2018 (Revised March 2019)
- Teaching Note
Hilti (A): Fleet Management?
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jan Rivkin
This Teaching Note accompanies the case HBS No. 718-419, “Hilti (A): Fleet Management.” It provides guidelines for class discussion, as well as a board plan and transcripts of the associated videos, Hilti Fleet Management Video Supplements.
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Keywords:
Business Model Innovation;
Total Customer Value;
Innovation;
Inventions;
Business Models;
Value Chains;
Transformations;
Focusing On Customers;
Business Model;
Restructuring;
Transformation;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Decision Making;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Construction;
Innovation and Invention;
Leasing;
Strategy;
Liechtenstein;
Switzerland;
Europe
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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
where, he says, “I hope to better understand the process of finding, building, and sustaining strong businesses.” Darza Pitch: 2020 New Venture Competition Yazan Halwani Co-runner up, Student Business Track...
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
scholarly researchers who relocate to HBS's campus for one academic year to work on specific projects related to issues of business and society. Consisting of scholars who study climate change or racial equity, they provide intellectual...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Do Public Financial Statements Influence Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing?
By: Brian K. Baik, Natalie Berfeld and Rodrigo S. Verdi
We study whether private firm public financial statements influence the probability of raising venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) financing. In particular, we propose that private firms’ public financial statements can help the VC/PE search process by...
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Keywords:
Business Economics;
Search Costs;
Accounting;
Venture Capital;
Governance;
Private Equity;
Financial Statements
Baik, Brian K., Natalie Berfeld, and Rodrigo S. Verdi. "Do Public Financial Statements Influence Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing?" SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3867958, June 2021.
- 29 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?
various characteristics of each case. “The new categorization process is not only important for internal teaching purposes, but as educational institutions worldwide look to HBS and Harvard Business...
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- 30 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?
various characteristics of each case. “The new categorization process is not only important for internal teaching purposes, but as educational institutions worldwide look to HBS and Harvard Business...
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- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
can then filter down to the hiring and recruiting process when it comes time for the board to pick the right CEO to lead the company. Groysberg and Cheng point to the example of Cisco, the subject of a recent Harvard View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- May 2012
- Article
Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design
By: Rakesh Khurana and J.C. Spender
We critically examine Herbert Simon's 1967 essay, "The Business School: A Problem in Organizational Design." We consider this essay within the context of Simon's key ideas about organizations, particularly those closely associated with the 'Carnegie perspective' on...
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Keywords:
Organizational Design;
Perspective;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Education;
Research;
Management Practices and Processes;
Teaching
Khurana, Rakesh, and J.C. Spender. "Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design." Journal of Management Studies 49, no. 3 (May 2012): 619–639.
- February 2013
- Supplement
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Video Supplement 2012
By: Anita Tucker and Amy Edmondson
Keywords:
Process Improvement;
Leadership Succession;
Healthcare;
Quality And Safety;
Transparency;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Management Succession;
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Improvement;
Business Processes;
Health Industry;
Ohio
Tucker, Anita, and Amy Edmondson. "Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Video Supplement 2012." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 613-710, February 2013.
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites. XML, Ballmer said, will change...
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How to Apply | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects Application Process Students submit one Social Enterprise Independent Project Reimbursement Grant Application form per team, which includes a detailed program budget that will be...
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Systems Change Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to socially impactful change to policies, practices, or behaviors. Participants used the term systems change to refer to a variety of approaches and solutions to social challenges. At different points during the forum, ‘systems change’ described the View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
to a career in biotech; the PhD route and the non-PhD route. Either of these routes can lead to a successful and impactful career. However, the distinction between scientists and business professionals has drawbacks in the daily course...
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- 2012
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Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data
By: Thomas H. Davenport
This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International Institute of Analytics, addresses a wide variety of key topics in managing business analytics and big data at the enterprise level. It includes key applications of analytics, human and...
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Keywords:
Business Analytics;
Big Data;
Business or Company Management;
Analytics and Data Science;
Management Practices and Processes;
Mathematical Methods;
Information Management
Davenport, Thomas H., ed. Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data. FT Press, 2012.
- 2007
- Article
Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation
By: Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire
This paper proposes that patents are real options that allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the patent and the extent of...
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Nerkar, Atul, Srikanth Paruchuri, and Mukti Khaire. "Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation." Real Options in Strategic Management. Advances in Strategic Management 24 (2007): 247–274.
- September 2022
- Article
The Power and Limits of Expertise: Swiss–Swedish Linking of Vehicle Emission Standards in the 1970s and 1980s
By: Mattias Näsman and Sabine Pitteloud
Recent decades have witnessed increased public concern about vehicle emissions and growing frustration with political inaction and business preferences for the status quo. This article provides historical perspective on such regulatory dynamics by analyzing the Swiss...
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Keywords:
Business And The Environment;
Business And Society;
Emission Reduction;
Automobiles;
Standard Setting;
Norm-enforcement;
Regulation;
Expertise;
Experts;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Regulation;
Standards;
Auto Industry;
Switzerland;
Sweden
Näsman, Mattias, and Sabine Pitteloud. "The Power and Limits of Expertise: Swiss–Swedish Linking of Vehicle Emission Standards in the 1970s and 1980s." Business and Politics 24, no. 3 (September 2022): 241–260.
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Dutch Leonard
Professor Leonard's research focuses on understanding the role of leadership in the development of strategy and processes for execution in private sector and socially-oriented organizations, including an emphasis on innovation, uncertainty, building successful adaptive...
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
. “Polaroid: Turning away from Land’s One-Product Strategy.” Business Week , March 2, 1981. Full text available (Harvard users only) “Polaroid-Land Process Now Has Black and White.” U.S. Camera 13, no. 8...
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- August 2018 (Revised July 2019)
- Background Note
Conducting a Kaizen
By: Willy Shih
Kaizen, meaning change for the better in Japanese, is a set of activities directed at improving standardized work, equipment, and procedures for carrying out daily production or other business operations. It was popularized by Toyota as an integral part of its Toyota...
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Keywords:
Best Practices;
Continuous Improvement;
Kaizen;
Process Improvement;
5S;
Muda;
Toyota Production System;
Production;
Service Operations;
Performance Improvement;
North and Central America;
Asia;
Japan
Shih, Willy. "Conducting a Kaizen." Harvard Business School Background Note 619-016, August 2018. (Revised July 2019.)