Filter Results:
(2,956)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,956)
- People (8)
- News (695)
- Research (1,464)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (749)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,956)
- People (8)
- News (695)
- Research (1,464)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (749)
- Web
Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Preparing to Teach Prior to each class session, instructor preparation involves careful planning of both content and process which includes: getting started , developing an instruction style, knowing your students, and View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
managerial action. Please also visit the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship . Recent Publications Teamworks: Tackling a Forecasting Fumble By: Lou Shipley and Stacy Straaberg October 2024 | Teaching Plan | Faculty Research In late... View Details
- February 2017
- Case
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), faced a rapidly changing sporting goods landscape in October 2016. Two large competitors—The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet—had folded earlier that year, and DKS had to contend with increasingly robust... View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- 2016
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Doug Rauch and the Daily Table
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Peter Zimmerman and Penelope Rossano
Former Trader Joe's President Doug Rauch developed an innovative idea to address the challenge of food insecurity, food waste, and nutrition. His concept was a new retail grocery model, offering nutritious affordable food to a food insecure population in the inner city... View Details
Keywords: Food Insecurity; Grocery; Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Health; Nonprofit Organizations; Boston
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Peter Zimmerman, and Penelope Rossano. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Doug Rauch and the Daily Table." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-105, 2016.
- Web
Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship
Student founders have the opportunity to select from two tracks: 1) Rock Summer Fellows – Independent track Engage in a peer exchange network of students committed to entrepreneurship. Receive the additional benefits of access to the View Details
- December 2020 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
eXp Realty and the Virbela Platform
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jan Bena, David Rowat and Emma Salomon
As he considered his plans for the future, Glenn Sanford, CEO of eXp World Holdings, Inc., faced an exciting conundrum. He had built the first all-remote real estate brokerage firm, eXp Realty, which had been growing exponentially and was thriving, even amidst the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; All Remote; Virtual Platform; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Digital Platforms; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Jan Bena, David Rowat, and Emma Salomon. "eXp Realty and the Virbela Platform." Harvard Business School Case 621-068, December 2020. (Revised March 2021.)
- Web
MBA Experience - Health Care
deeply into various health care sectors. Health Care Welcome Reception Takes place each fall and is hosted by the Initiative. This kick-off meet and greet introduces first-year students to the various health care resources at HBS. Health... View Details
- Web
The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
History Center From the time of its founding in 1876, AT&T’s rapid and pervasive expansion gave it a virtual monopoly over the telephone industry until the time of its break-up in 1984. Like other conglomerates of its day, the Bell Telephone System, as the entire View Details
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
November 2017) Case Sustainability at IKEA Group By: V. Kasturi Rangan , Michael W. Toffel , Vincent Dessain and Jerome Lenhardt By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales, and planned to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
findings are a comment primarily on the inadequate succession planning of an organization’s board of directors as opposed to the CEO. Do boomerang CEOs get a bad rap? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
General Management - Faculty & Research
concerned with the leadership and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses: the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders; the philosophies,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
unbearable feeling of worthlessness. I am good at nothing, a parasite.” Union surveys found that two-thirds of respondents were stressed and half wanted to quit. Local physicians told the firm’s head of human resources that many employees... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
of family enterprise generates a mixture of business, family and ownership concerns that can make these systems emotionally charged environments for planning and problem solving. In these systems individuals... View Details
- March 2010 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
This case examines the various considerations relevant to selecting and compensating workers in a context where their work involves a pro-social component. This is relevant to not only health care in Zambia, but to NGO and public sector workers who are both motivated... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, and Natalie Kindred. "Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management." Harvard Business School Case 910-030, March 2010. (Revised February 2014.) (Request a courtesy copy.)
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
come from different sources, or they must share decision-making with employees—or both. Workers increasingly resist one-way, top-down communication and commands; they expect to be heard and to help develop their organizations’ plans and... View Details
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global
Creating Emerging Markets project provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East over recent decades. At its core are over 180 interviews by Harvard faculty with... View Details
- 08 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor
Keywords: by Christina Fong & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
- Web
About - Business & Environment
agencies such as the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority and Rocky Mountain Institute. Elise Clarkson Community Manager Elise is the community manager of the Business and Environment Initiative. She manages core activities of the BEI... View Details
- August 2000 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
Plum Creek Timber (A)
By: Max H. Bazerman, Hannah Bowles, Dov Brachfeld and Jack Troast
Plum Creek Timber Co., the nation's sixth largest private timberland owner and forest products company, must decide whether to enter negotiations with the U.S. government to establish a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) on its Pacific Northwest properties for a... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Government Relations; Forest Products Industry; United States
Bazerman, Max H., Hannah Bowles, Dov Brachfeld, and Jack Troast. "Plum Creek Timber (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-131, August 2000. (Revised February 2001.)