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  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek—Lighting Liberia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 313-032. After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced... View Details
Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Social Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Science; Attitudes; Perspective
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  • September 28, 2023
  • Article

A Perspective on the Great Reallocation of Global Supply Chains

By: Laura Alfaro and Davin Chor
Previous optimism that cross-border supply chains would improve efficiency for firms and open up growth opportunities for countries has been tempered by concerns that global value chains now expose firms and countries to the risk of disruptions. This column analyses... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Policy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; United States
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  • May 2014
  • Teaching Note

Gunfire at Sea (multi-media case)

By: Michael Tushman
This short video illustrates the challenges of leading innovation and change. This classic case (one of the oldest in the HBS system) retains its timeliness. The case describes how Lt. Sims develops a new form of gunfire at sea—continuous aim gunfire. While 3,000% more... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; National Security; Innovation Leadership; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

to connect groups with disparate skills—like engineering, sales, and market analysis—at key points in a project. Extensive analysis of job postings Zhang bases his conclusions on a unique linguistic analysis of more than 34 million online job postings for managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 07 Feb 2011
  • News

Harvard eyes start-ups

  • 19 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

campaign had been Photoshopped—information that also tore across the Web. What should marketers do in situations like this? Maybe nothing. "One strategy that brand managers pursue is to just give in and let them talk," Avery says. "Part of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 26 Mar 2014
  • News

Revisiting how Christensen’s “disruption innovation” in healthcare means decentralization

  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Creative Consulting Company

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan and David P. Norton
During the past 50 years, several consulting companies introduced important new ideas that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management... View Details
Keywords: Management; Theory; Practice; Performance Improvement; Innovation and Management; Consulting Industry
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  • 09 Mar 2018
  • News

Master Protocols in Oncology: A Review of the Landscape

  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

School Assistant Professor of Business Administration Andy Wu to conduct a study that asked: Does the daily commute affect innovation and productivity for tens of millions of workers? And if so, what are the implications for companies... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Now in its second year, Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are no credit, no fee elective courses for MBA students. SIPs are open to first and second year MBA students. They offer a great opportunity for students to think about career... View Details
  • 2012
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek (A): Lighting Liberia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
After successful careers as lawyers Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by increasing Liberian citizens’ access to lighting solutions. They developed the Liberian Energy Network, which aimed... View Details
Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
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    N. Louis Shipley

    Lou Shipley is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Lou is a three-time technology CEO, most recently at Black Duck Software.

    Lou specializes in tech entrepreneurship, sales/sales management, go-to-market... View Details

    • August 2013 (Revised September 2015)
    • Case

    Coursera

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hyunjin Kim
    By providing free and open-access online courses at a large scale, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms seek to innovate the business models of the traditional higher education industry. In a little over a year, Coursera had grown at a rapid rate to emerge as a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Models; Strategy; Competition; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Higher Education; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry
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    • 23 Oct 2020
    • Video

    Entrepreneurship Opportunities in a Post-COVID World: The Future of Work

    • 17 Jun 2011
    • HBS Case

    KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

    restaurant company in mainland China. The case describes how Yum! China succeeded and expanded by staying local on many levels. It keeps close ties to the Chinese government, hires local management, sources food from within the country,... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage

    By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
    How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details
    Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics
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    • March 2008 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    MySpace

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David T. Chen and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    The case, set in late 2007, examines what MySpace—the largest online social network—should do to respond to its agile competitor, Facebook. Since its inception MySpace had experienced phenomenal growth, acquiring 20 million members in its first 20 months of operation,... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry
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    • 23 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

    individual patient. However, routine practice is itself a fertile source of innovations in care, in both what to do and how to do it. Medical knowledge and how to operationalize it can be learned through... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health