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- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
innovation strategy, design a system for creativity, and build up an enterprise’s cultural DNA. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, shares insights in our Q&A. Martha...
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by Martha Lagace
- February 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (C)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators - bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and...
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Globalization;
Compensation and Benefits;
Surveys;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Practices and Processes;
Production;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Manufacturing Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-082, February 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
- February 2009 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Jieliang Phone Home! (B)
By: Willy Shih, Ethan Bernstein and Nina Bilimoria
At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through small innovations for faster assembly and have...
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Managing People;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Production;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Management Practices and Processes;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor;
Surveys;
Decisions;
Manufacturing Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Ethan Bernstein, and Nina Bilimoria. "Jieliang Phone Home! (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-081, February 2009. (Revised August 2021.)
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
product used in econometrics, is a good example of this. “Our research plainly shows that value creation doesn't necessarily lead to value capture.” In cases where values are intermediate, we find that the firm prefers to open the View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
would love to bid but only if your competitor stays out of the game. Rumors suggest that your competitor is willing to counter your bid, but you believe these are strategic leaks designed to scare you off....
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by Deepak Malhotra
- June 2016
- Case
Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency
By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
This case discusses the evolution of Big Spaceship, an advertising and marketing agency, from a product-focused business to a relationship-oriented one as clients seek deeper and more meaningful long-term partnerships. The 15-year-old company had already evolved...
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Digital Marketing;
Advertising;
Advertising Campaigns;
Marketing;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social Media;
Advertising Industry;
United States;
New York (city, NY)
Groysberg, Boris, and Matthew G. Preble. "Big Spaceship: The Evolving Agency." Harvard Business School Case 416-003, June 2016.
- December 2019
- Case
Steemit: A New Social Media?
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman
This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by...
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Decision Making;
Decisions;
Voting;
Economic Systems;
Money;
Fairness;
Values and Beliefs;
Goals and Objectives;
Digital Platforms;
Product Design;
Design;
Problems and Challenges;
Network Effects;
Motivation and Incentives;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Reputation;
Business Strategy;
Competition;
Internet and the Web;
Social Media;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States;
Virginia;
New York (city, NY)
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Alexander White, and Karen Elterman. "Steemit: A New Social Media?" Harvard Business School Case 720-428, December 2019.
- 01 May 2013
- News
Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006
For Raphael Geismar, chairman and CEO of Stumec, a French supplier of tools and equipment to the railway industry, the attraction to HBS was part aspiration, part continuity. “In France and everywhere,”...
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Building Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
materials related to this partnership, including documentation of curriculum development, school policies, and the architecture and design of the campus. Indian Institute View Details
- Web
Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
installments of $3,750) Credential 3 Courses Credential of Readiness (CORe) Designed to help you achieve fluency in the language of business,...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
which combined all of Martha's business interests into a single, integrated, synergistic company. What has your business strategy been at MSLO? A key piece has been building a core creative and editorial...
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- November 2013
- Case
Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope
After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was...
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Charter Schools;
Real Estate;
Fund Raising;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford, and Lisa Strope. "Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools." Harvard Business School Case 214-033, November 2013.
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
A few years ago, HBS Executive Education unveiled the program Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, designed to introduce executives to the process of joining a corporate board. Since that...
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Greenhill House | About
stucco and brick office building was designed in the Georgian Revival-style by McKim, Mead & White as part of the original 1920s campus plan, though construction was delayed for financial reasons until 1965,...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest...
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podcasts
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology...
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- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
Understand the roles Do you understand the difference between a front-end developer versus designer versus UX expert? (If you don’t, read this.) Are you fluent enough in your architecture to know what type View Details
- August 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the...
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Business Model;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Bicycle Industry;
Africa;
Kenya
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa." Harvard Business School Case 724-360, August 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- Article
Family Rituals Improve the Holidays
By: Ovul Sezer, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Kathleen Vohs
Rituals are central to family life. Three studies (N = 1098) tested the relationship between family rituals and holiday enjoyment and demonstrated that family rituals improve the holidays because they amplify family closeness and involvement in the experience. In Study...
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Sezer, Ovul, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino, and Kathleen Vohs. "Family Rituals Improve the Holidays." Special Issue on the Science of Hedonistic Consumption. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 1, no. 4 (October 2016): 509–526.
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
“yardening” advice with others. Now, with Dear Avant Gardener surpassing her initial goal of 5,000 readers, Evans has partnered with her daughter to turn the enterprise into a business, offering a new course View Details