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- 03 Feb 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Web
MBA Voices
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to...
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Managing Social Enterprise (MSE)
This course examines how to create, develop and scale high-performing social enterprises - be they nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations. Unlike the business world where most stakeholders agree on the definition of success and are driven by market forces,...
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- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A High-Tech New Way for Your Boss to Follow You Everywhere
- April 2019
- Article
Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence
By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze...
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Keywords:
Field Experiment;
Innovation;
Contest;
Incentives;
Free-rider Problem;
Healthcare Organizations;
Employees;
Motivation and Incentives;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Performance Improvement;
Perspective
Blasco, Andrea, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. "Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 160 (April 2019): 214–229.
- April 2018
- Supplement
Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market
By: Sunil Gupta, Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2017, both Flipkart and Amazon claimed leadership position in India's recently concluded key annual festive season sale, but it was too early to declare victory. Amazon continues to invest heavily in India. Competition from newer players is increasing. Media reports...
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Gupta, Sunil, Das Narayandas, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market." Harvard Business School Supplement 518-097, April 2018.
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Our crumbling infrastructure
- July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)
By: Willy Shih
"This trial is going to take longer." Those were words that Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, was not surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative radiotherapy business inside his company's microsurgery unit. But he also didn't expect it to take 13 years to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Business History;
Disruptive Innovation;
Emerging Markets;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Research and Development;
Safety
Shih, Willy. "Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-003, July 2011. (Revised September 2012.)
- 11 Jul 2011
- News
Q&A: Linda A Hill, Professor of Business Administration, HBS
- December 1997 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Franco Bernabe at ENI (A)
By: Linda A. Hill, Jennifer Suesse and Mara Willard
Describes Franco Bernabe's ascent to leadership at ENI, Italy's national oil and gas company. Illustrates Bernabe's early career experiences in academia, as the chief economist at Fiat. Then describes his arrival at ENI during the early 1980s, where he became first the...
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Keywords:
Leadership Style;
Personal Development and Career;
Management Teams;
Management Style;
Strategic Planning;
Crisis Management;
Privatization;
Italy
Hill, Linda A., Jennifer Suesse, and Mara Willard. "Franco Bernabe at ENI (A)." Harvard Business School Case 498-034, December 1997. (Revised February 2002.)
- September 2008 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Loews Corporation: Corporate Strategy as a Portfolio
By: Joseph L. Bower
In 2007, Loews Inc., under the leadership of James Tisch, was considering whether to buy natural gas properties from Dominion Resources. The question is whether the acquisition fits the corporate strategy. In exploring the questions, students will have the chance to...
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Keywords:
Corporate Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Value Creation;
Acquisition;
Management Teams
Bower, Joseph L. "Loews Corporation: Corporate Strategy as a Portfolio." Harvard Business School Case 309-004, September 2008. (Revised March 2014.)
- 14 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture
Culture change is probably on your leadership agenda. You may want (or feel forced) to create a post-pandemic culture, or become more collaborative, innovative, or aggressive. But most companies fail in this because they try to change...
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by Michael Beer
- August 1998 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Harbus Foundation, The
By: James E. Austin and Linda Carrigan
Describes the challenges faced by a group of HBS students as they create a foundation. Given surplus funds generated by the student-run newspaper, The Harbus leadership decides to find a meaningful use for the excess cash. Profiles both the entrepreneurial process used...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Asset Management;
Financial Institutions;
Investment Portfolio;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Problems and Challenges;
Social Enterprise;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry
Austin, James E., and Linda Carrigan. "Harbus Foundation, The." Harvard Business School Case 399-031, August 1998. (Revised October 2002.)
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
The Importance of Purpose in Technology & Innovation
- Program
PLD Module 5
Summary The Program for Leadership Development (PLD) put you on the fast track to leadership. In PLD Module 5, you have the rare opportunity to build on that momentum, continue to expand your leadership...
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- June 2020
- Case
RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,...
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Keywords:
Service Delivery;
Information Technology;
Transformation;
Change Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Decision Making;
Human Resources;
Management Systems;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Management Teams;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Aldo Sesia. "RBC: Transforming Transformation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 920-008, June 2020.
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
As a youngster, I used to create “stores” in my driveway, selling things to other neighborhood kids. It was an entrepreneurial inclination fostered by growing up in a family that owned retail stores and enjoyed telling stories of their...
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All Industries
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
stores and enjoyed telling stories of their sales. Advertising was a popular career with a certain amount of glamour in the 1950s and 1960s. I, too, liked the thought of developing ideas that would motivate...
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- 11 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability
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by Alnoor Ebrahim