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Derrick Bransby
Derrick studies how people in organizations collaborate to create, innovate, and learn in high-stakes, time-constrained situations when failure is (seemingly) not an option. His research employs field methods to explore the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.
Premier League or the NBA.” To identify the causal effect of outcome uncertainty on attendance, the authors concentrated on injuries to teams not favored to win in the regular season games. These types of injuries View Details
- 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM EST, 13 Nov 2015
HBS MBA Career Reboot Camp in New York City
Career Reboot Camp is coming to New York! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
- May 2022
- Case
What to Propose?
By: David G. Fubini
Two audit and financial services firms, one of which your consulting firm has supported extensively, have merged to create one of the largest audit firms in the world. The audit firm's Executive Team has requested proposals aimed at re-evaluating their internal... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Professional Services; Governance; Presentations; Organizational Structure; Transition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consulting Industry
Fubini, David G. "What to Propose?" Harvard Business School Case 422-095, May 2022.
- 8 AM – 5 PM EST, 02 Mar 2016
Career Reboot Camp in Chicago
Career Reboot Camp is coming to Chicago! Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
messages I received were that if leadership involves control, it is only over setting an organization's course and priorities." HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Rebecca Emerick
Rebecca is a Corporate Relations Director in the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) office. She has worked in CPD since 2008 and serves as the consulting industry lead for the office. In addition, she manages the recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
Together Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Unsplash/Dylan Gillis View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 19 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library
As members of the Curriculum & Learning Services (CLS) team at Baker Library, we have the opportunity to work closely with MBA students: in the library, online, and in the classroom. In a typical year we... View Details
- 8 AM – 5 PM EDT, 02 Jun 2016
Career Reboot Camp in Boston
Career Reboot Camp is taking place at HBS. Led by Professor Tim Butler and facilitated by HBS career coaches, participants will work through exercises to reflect on their key career interests, what's important to them in work and life, and create a plan to move forward... View Details
- 11 Oct 2011
- News
Instant MBA: Integration and the Power Paradox
- 07 Sep 2012
- News
Who's responsible for your happiness at work?
- 30 Apr 2020
- News
Five Key Insights on Leading Courageously During a Crisis
- July 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (A)
By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Hung-Chang Chiu, Yi-Ching Hsieh and Ho Howard Yu
ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of PC motherboards, yet when it tried to launch its new sub-notebook Eee PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Groups and Teams; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry
Shih, Willy C., Chintay Shih, Hung-Chang Chiu, Yi-Ching Hsieh, and Ho Howard Yu. "ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-011, July 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/JohnnyGreig View Details
Sara McKinley Torti
Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details
- December 1999 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
Morgan Stanley: Becoming a "One-Firm Firm"
By: M. Diane Burton, Thomas J. DeLong and Katherine Lawrence
John Mack, the newly appointed president of Morgan Stanley, feels strongly that the firm needs to change in order to compete in a changing investment banking environment. Mack and his senior team undertake initiatives in order to transform the culture and working style... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Competitive Strategy
Burton, M. Diane, Thomas J. DeLong, and Katherine Lawrence. Morgan Stanley: Becoming a "One-Firm Firm". Harvard Business School Case 400-043, December 1999. (Revised May 2000.)
Failure Shouldn't Come as a Surprise
I’ve worked at startup companies and I’ve run development teams inside large public companies. In both environments, executives spend far more time forecasting how successful they’ll be than planning what they will do if something breaks down.
View Details- 15 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group
These days it seems like many MBAs are focused on launching the next big startup. Entrepreneurship is awesome but you might call me a traditionalist. Consulting was my goal for my summer internship from the start. I have always been analytical and enjoy View Details
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
FARM Rio: Bringing a Brazilian Fashion Brand to the World
By: Isamar Troncoso and Jill Avery
FARM Rio, a twenty-six year old Brazilian fashion brand, had recently put down roots in the U.S. The brand, known for its bold, colorful, nature-inspired tropical prints, was testing the waters in Europe to assess if and how the brand should further expand globally.... View Details
Keywords: Global Marketing; Go-to-market Strategy; Global Branding; Brand Positioning; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Distribution Channels; Expansion; Fashion Industry; Brazil; United States; Europe
Troncoso, Isamar, and Jill Avery. "FARM Rio: Bringing a Brazilian Fashion Brand to the World." Harvard Business School Case 524-003, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)