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Owner/President Management
sustain enterprise success. Read More Understand the major drivers of your business Position your business for long-term competitive advantage Strengthen your decision-making and negotiation skills Capitalize on disruptive innovation and rapid View Details
- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
IBM: Design Thinking
By: Srikant M. Datar, Amram Migdal and Paul Hamilton
This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every product team alongside technical engineers and developers and product managers. IBM’s design transformation is told...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Divisions;
Business Units;
Business Organization;
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Competency and Skills;
Talent and Talent Management;
Design;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Innovation and Invention;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Design and Levels;
Leading Change;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Operations;
Product;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Organizations;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Adoption;
Technological Innovation;
Information Infrastructure;
Information Technology;
Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Datar, Srikant M., Amram Migdal, and Paul Hamilton. "IBM: Design Thinking." Harvard Business School Case 121-007, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- Web
Capstone - MBA
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Capstone Each student develops a capstone project in their second year of studies that challenges them to perform an in-depth structured scientific and business analysis of a biotechnology opportunity....
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- March 2021
- Case
Astralis Group: Determining a Brand Strategy
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emilie Billaud
After launching a Danish esports company in July 2019, and going public in December 2019 with multiple brands associated with different games, the Astralis leadership team was contemplating a shift to a single, corporate brand. While the original arguments for...
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Keywords:
Brand Strategy;
Esports;
Video Games;
Corporate Scope;
Positioning;
Ecosystem;
Brands and Branding;
Strategy;
Business Ventures;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Sports;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Diversification;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Denmark;
Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emilie Billaud. "Astralis Group: Determining a Brand Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 721-382, March 2021.
- March 2021
- Article
Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment
By: Kris J. Ferreira and Joel Goh
Assortment rotation—the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers—has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple...
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Keywords:
Assortment Optimization;
Retailing;
Imperfect Information;
Sales;
Strategy;
Consumer Behavior
Ferreira, Kris J., and Joel Goh. "Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment." Management Science 67, no. 3 (March 2021): 1489–1507.
- January 2019 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Angola Starts Now
By: Jeremy Friedman and Sophus A. Reinert
After five centuries of colonialism, four decades of civil war, an extended experiment with Marxism-Leninism, and nearly four decades of rule by a single man, José Eduardo Dos Santos, Angola finally has a chance to realize its enormous economic potential. A country...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Government and Politics;
History;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Social Issues;
Angola
Friedman, Jeremy, and Sophus A. Reinert. "Angola Starts Now." Harvard Business School Case 719-007, January 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Coactive Vicarious Learning: Towards a Relational Theory of Vicarious Learning in Organizations
By: Christopher G. Myers
Vicarious learning—a process of individual belief and behavior change that occurs through being exposed to, and making meaning of, another's experience—has long been recognized as a key driver of individual, team and organizational success. Yet existing perspectives on...
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Myers, Christopher G. "Coactive Vicarious Learning: Towards a Relational Theory of Vicarious Learning in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-020, August 2015.
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
through changes in problem solving, coordination, and standardization. They also draw on a framework of 4 principles of the Toyota Production System defined by HBS professor Kent Bowen and Steven Spear (HBS DBA '99): Rule 1: All work...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract This paper shows that top management structures in large U.S. firms have radically View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)
for their own lack of money, rather than external environmental and societal factors, the research team says. “We have normalized this idea that when you are poor, it’s your fault and so you should be ashamed of it,” Jachimowicz says. “At the same time, we’ve View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- January 2022
- Teaching Plan
Just Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden
By: Brian Trelstad and Emilie Billaud
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-040. Just Arrived is an online platform that matches newly-arrived immigrants in Sweden with employment opportunities. As one of several for-profit and non-profit start-ups in Europe that is looking to address the refugee crisis, the...
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- January 1999
- Article
An Analysis of Value Destruction and Recovery in the Alliance and Proposed Merger of Volvo and Renault
By: Robert Bruner
Volvo's attempt to merge with Renault in 1993 temporarily destroyed SEK 8.6 billion (US$ 1.1 billion) in Volvo shareholder wealth. This study traces the destruction to hubris, managerialism, and the escalation of commitment—elements suggested in previous research. In...
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Keywords:
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Institutional Investors;
Alliances;
Privatization;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Institutional Investing;
Auto Industry
Bruner, Robert. "An Analysis of Value Destruction and Recovery in the Alliance and Proposed Merger of Volvo and Renault." Journal of Financial Economics 51, no. 1 (January 1999): 125–166.
- 12 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Giorgos Zervas, Boston University
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
All complex systems can be described in terms of their architecture, that is, as a nested hierarchy of subsystems. In this paper, we use network methods to detect the core components of an architecture, to establish... View Details
- 11 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People’s Unethical Behavior
- Article
No Unique Effect of Intergroup Competition on Cooperation: Non-competitive Thresholds Are as Effective as Competitions between Groups for Increasing Human Cooperative Behavior
By: Matthew R. Jordan, Jillian J. Jordan and David G. Rand
Explaining cooperation remains a central topic for evolutionary theorists. Many have argued that group selection provides such an explanation: theoretical models show that intergroup competition could have given rise to cooperation that is costly for the individual....
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Keywords:
Intergroup Competition;
Threshold Public Goods Game;
Multi-level Selection;
Cooperation;
Groups and Teams;
Competition
Jordan, Matthew R., Jillian J. Jordan, and David G. Rand. "No Unique Effect of Intergroup Competition on Cooperation: Non-competitive Thresholds Are as Effective as Competitions between Groups for Increasing Human Cooperative Behavior." Evolution and Human Behavior 38, no. 1 (January 2017): 102–108.
- January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio Rotemberg
This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Central Banking;
Financial Markets;
Mortgages;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
United States
Rotemberg, Julio. "Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil." Harvard Business School Case 708-042, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- May 2016
- Case
Seaside Organics
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Alisa Zalosh
This case follows Sara Norton, a soccer player-turned-serial entrepreneur, as she transforms Seaside Organics from a fledgling startup into an $89 million company. Informed by the successes and failures of her first organics venture, WellBar, Norton tries to balance...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Organizational Structure;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Personal Characteristics;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Conflict and Resolution;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Stevenson, Howard H., and Alisa Zalosh. "Seaside Organics." Harvard Business School Brief Case 916-526, May 2016.
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
changes in the economy than it does about firms allowing themselves to return to days of bloated, ineffective managerial ranks. Managers are handling a more complex set of technologically driven tasks that require substantial skill in...
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by Ben Rand