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- December 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Case
Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo, Foluke Otudeko and Mark Benson
Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola was an important contributor to Nigeria's manufacturing sector, creating a multimillion-dollar conglomerate including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch, a 5,000-acre plantation, a sawmill, and an exporting business before...
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History;
Business Conglomerates;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Success;
Leadership Style;
Business History;
Market Entry and Exit;
Personal Development and Career;
Business Startups;
Manufacturing Industry;
Nigeria
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, Foluke Otudeko, and Mark Benson. "Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector." Harvard Business School Case 407-027, December 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
include the founders and leaders of organizations such as Google and Facebook. Their business models are centered around the exchange of a “free” service for free information about us that can later be combined with other data and sold....
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- Web
Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Organization Science . Raffaella Sadun : Included in the 2023 Thinkers50 Radar list—a list of 30 "up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on management thinking in the future." 2022 Frank Nagle :...
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For Recruiters - Health Care
low-risk setting. Propose an Independent Project Independent Projects allow second-year HBS students to partner with an organization on a real-time challenge of strategic importance. Students are advised by a faculty member and receive...
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- October 2022
- Case
EducationSuperHighway 2.0
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ...
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Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Leading Change;
Early Childhood Education;
Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Telecommunications Industry;
Education Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "EducationSuperHighway 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 823-060, October 2022.
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
Several noted that "it all depends" on other factors. For example, Basel Kakah commented that "[responses to] those questions could [depend on] the nature and size of the organization as well as the nature of the industry...
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by Jim Heskett
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
Enforcing Internal Controls Building Business Conduct Boundaries Featured Exercises Identify internal risk pressures using the Risk Exposure Calculator Propose solutions for a new conduct boundary at your organization 7-8 hrs Module 6...
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- May 2012
- Case
BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division
By: Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton
Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within...
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United States;
Massachusetts;
Morale;
Human Resource Management;
Technology;
Leadership;
Opportunities;
Organizational Design;
Conflict and Resolution;
Product Development;
Change Management;
Information Infrastructure;
Business Processes;
Manufacturing Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Massachusetts
Beer, Michael, and Rachel Shelton. "BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division." Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-438, May 2012.
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The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration
By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban
Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other spatial boundaries, yet there is scant direct empirical research on...
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Open Office;
Transparency;
Collaboration;
Collective Intelligence;
Workspace;
Workspace Design;
Architecture;
Cubicles;
Boundaries;
Spatial Boundaries;
Human Behavior;
Propinquity;
Co-location;
Interaction;
Sociometers;
People Analytics;
Buildings and Facilities;
Communication;
Design;
Human Resources;
Leadership;
Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Networks;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Information Technology;
United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephen Turban. "The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration." Art. 239. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 373, no. 1753 (August 19, 2018).
- Web
Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
definition of capitalism. Strategy for Philanthropic Organizations Foundations have traditionally focused on doing good by providing funding to worthy social enterprises. Instead, foundations should set the higher goal of creating social...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
Product cycles entail the mass production of new—and often increasingly complex—products on a regular basis. How do firms manage these changes? We use granular daily data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new...
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Keywords:
Training;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Knowledge Management;
Production;
Product;
Organizational Structure;
Auto Industry;
Argentina
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicolas Torres. "Organizational Responses to Product Cycles." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-061, March 2023. (Revise & Resubmit Journal of Political Economy.)
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
"Although weather conditions are exogenous and uncontrollable, organizations could assign more clerical work on rainy days than sunny days to tap into the effects of bad weather on productivity, assigning work [on sunny days] that does...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2017
- News
Helping MBA Students Scale Mount Everest
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
once a very secretive industry, to take increasingly public stances on the risk of human-induced climate change and the need to take urgent action to contain it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52170 November 2016 Management Science...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
role prior to HBS was a Project Manager at Roland Berger. Bobby Yang (MBA 2023, Section H), Summer Internship: MBA Intern, Office of the CEO, at nZero nZero is a 24/7 carbon data and management platform that gives NGOs, government agencies and View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- 03 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Applying the Care Delivery Value Chain: HIV/AIDS Care in Resource Poor Settings
- 06 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies
- 17 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries