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- August 2016
- Case
Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bertrand Moingeon, Guo Bai and Jean-François Harvey
Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational corporations, local government agencies, and startups, turn a rundown Paris suburb into a “smart” (ecologically viable, high-tech, livable) neighborhood? This case explores how Bouygues Immobilier led such a...
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Keywords:
Collaboration;
Teaming;
Cross-industry Collaboration;
Interorganizatonal Relationships;
Innovation;
Nascent Industries;
Smart Cities;
Governance;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology Industry;
Construction Industry;
Paris;
France
Edmondson, Amy C., Bertrand Moingeon, Guo Bai, and Jean-François Harvey. "Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues." Harvard Business School Case 617-007, August 2016.
- August 2009
- Case
Intel NBI: Vivonic
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
Vivonic was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives that sought to develop and sell personal health monitoring hardware and software. When it was first funded, Intel was in the midst of record growth and was seeking diversification. But the company...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Product Development;
Failure;
Diversification;
Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Vivonic." Harvard Business School Case 610-025, August 2009.
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Introduction and Overview: Managing Product Development, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
The first module, comprising three cases and a team exercise, provides an impressionistic look at all the issues raised in greater detail in subsequent classes. It thus enables students, who come to the course with a range of experience and skills, to get up to speed...
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- February 1985 (Revised July 1986)
- Case
Applichem (A)
Applichem has six plants in different countries making the same chemical product. The purpose of this case is to allow students to think about what costs are relevant to management in this process industry environment, about how to define a comparison of costs and...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Performance Productivity;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Chemical Industry
Flaherty, Marie-Therese M. "Applichem (A)." Harvard Business School Case 685-051, February 1985. (Revised July 1986.)
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
prosecution. These cases require agents to sift through vast amounts of data and sometimes physically surveil suspects—cost- and time-intensive efforts, Nguyen notes. FBI investigates Muslim communities Nguyen focused on View Details
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense" - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
and maintain connections with student leaders throughout the term. In addition we conduct interviews with student groups for use in our research and programs with faculty.Does the Christensen Center offer...
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- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Working PapersNone Available This Week Cases & Course MaterialsAssessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System Harvard Business School Note 808-026 Describes how to asses and...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Overview
The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,...
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- September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Motivation and Incentives;
Programs;
Ethics;
Quality;
Moral Sensibility;
Service Delivery;
Compensation and Benefits;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Ingrid Marie Nembhard, and Robert Galvin. "Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life." Harvard Business School Case 604-030, September 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
- June 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Siemens Medical Solutions: Strategic Turnaround
By: D. Quinn Mills and Julian Kurz
Describes how Siemens Medical Solutions (MED) accomplished a remarkable turnaround from a money-losing operation to one of Siemens' most profitable divisions. By late 1996, a challenging market environment in the health care industry as well as inefficiencies in the...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Transformation;
Problems and Challenges;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Mills, D. Quinn, and Julian Kurz. "Siemens Medical Solutions: Strategic Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 703-494, June 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
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Overview
By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Growth Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Technology Platform;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States;
China;
Southeast Asia;
South Asia
- July 2024
- Case
Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM
By: Willy Shih
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the...
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- 01 Nov 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota
- May 2010
- Case
CEIBS: A Global Business School Made in China
By: John A. Quelch
In 2009, just 15 years after it was founded, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has achieved the remarkable 8th position in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings. The case describes the short history of the school and the reasons for its success....
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Keywords:
Product Positioning;
Quality;
Business History;
Competitive Advantage;
Business Education;
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
China
Quelch, John A., S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, and Shengjun Liu. "CEIBS: A Global Business School Made in China." Harvard Business School Case 510-088, May 2010.
- October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Collabrys, Inc. (A)-The Evolution of a Startup
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey
The CEO of a two-year-old start-up must now decide whether to become a technology provider or a service agency. In a time of enormous uncertainty about the viability of various business models for Internet-delivered services and products, Collabrys has survived the...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Internet and the Web;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Cost vs Benefits;
Partners and Partnerships;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Corporate Finance;
United States
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Brian DeLacey. "Collabrys, Inc. (A)-The Evolution of a Startup." Harvard Business School Case 603-064, October 2002. (Revised December 2003.)
- July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)
Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Online Advertising;
Advertising Industry
Spear, Steven J., and Jeremy Dann. "Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-020, July 2000. (Revised September 2005.)
- 24 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators
- Web
Commitment to Teaching - MBA
Commitment to Teaching Commitment to Teaching In an HBS classroom, faculty lead 90 individuals from all over the world in case discussions and FIELD team projects that challenge, provoke, and inspire. Under...
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- March 1999
- Case
City of Charlotte (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This case shows how two operating departments-transportation and police-translate the high-level corporate scorecard for the city into departmental balanced scorecards. The transportation department follows a highly structured approach designed to link initiatives...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Global Strategy;
National Security;
Balanced Scorecard;
Organizational Design;
Technology Adoption;
Public Administration Industry;
Transportation Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (B)." Harvard Business School Case 199-043, March 1999.