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- Winter 2024
- Article
Return to Office Decisions: A Culture Question?
By: Yo-Jud Cheng and Boris Groysberg
Company culture is an important source of competitive advantage and differentiation. Even in times of
crisis, leaders must attend to their company’s culture, designing it in alignment with their strategy and
priorities. One of the most consequential decisions
that...
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Cheng, Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg. "Return to Office Decisions: A Culture Question?" Management and Business Review 4, no. 1 (Winter 2024): 8–15.
- August 2016
- Case
Collective Academy
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
This case is about making the decision to become an entrepreneur and early challenges in setting up a business model and team. In 2015, Pato Bichara co-founded Collective Academy to create an affordable, three-year undergraduate experience to infuse innovation into...
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Keywords:
Early Stage;
Team Building;
Business Startup;
Trade-offs;
Risk;
Founders' Agreements;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Decision Making;
Technology Industry;
Mexico;
Latin America;
United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Christopher Payton. "Collective Academy." Harvard Business School Case 817-026, August 2016.
- Article
Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions
By: Laura Huang and Jone L. Pearce
Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Building on existing literature on decision making and risk in...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decision Making;
Emotions;
Performance Effectiveness
Huang, Laura, and Jone L. Pearce. "Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions." Administrative Science Quarterly 60, no. 4 (December 2015): 634–670.
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
other Chateaux blending wine programs, reaches out to new areas such as China, and begins to take a more active interest in the world's number one market-the United States. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/913402-PDF-ENG GREE,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Program
Senior Executive Program—Africa
limited amount of partial scholarship funding may be available for qualified applicants from not-for-profit organizations. Please include a request for funding in your application. Blended Learning and Living at HBS When you participate...
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- Program
Leading in the Digital Era
required for people to leverage those technologies? Blending explorations of technology, organizational transformation, and leadership, this program will help you master the mindset, capabilities, and practices required to drive your...
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Peter Tufano
Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details
Keywords:
asset management;
banking;
brokerage;
credit card;
education industry;
energy;
federal government;
financial services;
insurance industry;
investment banking industry;
microfinance;
mining;
nonprofit industry;
oil & gas;
petroleum;
real estate;
retail financial services;
state government;
utilities;
video games
- Program
Managing Turbulence
career decisions Who Should Attend Senior vice presidents and senior executives one to two levels from the C-suite at well-established organizations and startups of any size in any industry. Future-focused executives who are responsible for implementing strategic...
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- 2009
- Book
Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization
By: Ranjay Gulati
In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why?...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Profit;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Cooperation
Gulati, Ranjay. Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- Web
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences - MBA
MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences A joint degree that blends science, business & ethics A joint degree with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Students are affiliated with Harvard Medical School through the Harvard Department of...
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- May 2024
- Background Note
Net Revenue Retention: Unpacking the Dynamics of Customer Monetization
By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
Firms and investors alike are beginning to recognize the importance of tracking how revenues from existing customers are evolving over time and to appreciate the value in understanding what might explain changes in these revenues. Consequently, in addition to looking...
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Ofek, Elie, Barak Libai, and Eitan Muller. "Net Revenue Retention: Unpacking the Dynamics of Customer Monetization." Harvard Business School Background Note 524-092, May 2024.
- Program
Managing Health Care Delivery
to the program, and prior to the program start, participants may send a brief statement of need for review by the financial aid committee. Blended Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in a blended...
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Jill J. Avery
Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details
Keywords:
consumer products;
arts;
advertising;
automobiles;
retailing;
fashion;
hotels & motels;
food;
beverage
- Program
Finance for Senior Executives
core skills in a broad strategic context Blended Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a...
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- 2022
- Chapter
Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial...
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Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022.
- 2014
- Article
In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization
By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski
Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of...
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Keywords:
Organizational Identity;
Socialization;
Youth;
Youth Service Programs;
Identity;
Mission and Purpose;
Age;
Personal Development and Career;
Service Industry;
Europe
Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski. "In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization." Research in the Sociology of Work 25 (2014): 13–50.
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
structure our lives in a way that uncovers new strengths and leads to lasting happiness? Blending the latest in behavioral social science research, ancient wisdom, and historical analysis, Professor Brooks will reveal how effectiveness...
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- Program
Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth
and execute an integrated marketing strategy that blends time-tested paradigms with recent innovations, aligns your business with customer needs, and differentiates your offerings from the competition. Whatever your industry, you will...
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- October 2007
- Article
The Art of Designing Markets
By: Alvin E. Roth
Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by...
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Keywords:
Market Design;
Market Participation;
Market Transactions;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web
Roth, Alvin E. "The Art of Designing Markets." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007): 118–126.
- 05 Jul 2023
- HBS Case
What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment
contextual, or relational. The challenge for leaders is to develop a style that blends elements of all three, because “an overreliance on any one orientation can lead to poor action plans that may derail your ability to execute,” the note...
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by Ben Rand