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- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
manager to the corporate officer who might manage a portfolio of businesses. However, it is also appropriate for the functional manager who clearly is on a general management track. Tushman: Companies do...
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- September–October 2020
- Article
When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?: How to Sell Stakeholders on a New Strategy
By: Rory McDonald and Robert Bremner
To succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and entrepreneurs realize they need to change direction. How that shift is communicated can have a huge impact on a...
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Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Strategy;
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Communication Strategy;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
McDonald, Rory, and Robert Bremner. "When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?: How to Sell Stakeholders on a New Strategy." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 98–105.
- June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Alex Montana at ESH Manufacturing Co.
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Kernish
Alex Montana sat at his desk pondering the career decision before him. Alex was director of the North American division of ESH Manufacturing, a $4.6 billion, Cleveland-based company with operations on three continents. ESH's CEO had just offered Montana a promotion to...
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Decision Making;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Personal Development and Career;
Work-Life Balance;
Manufacturing Industry;
Cleveland
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Kernish. "Alex Montana at ESH Manufacturing Co." Harvard Business School Case 405-106, June 2005. (Revised May 2006.)
- 22 Apr 2019
- HBS Seminar
Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM
- Program
Mergers and Acquisitions
technology Founders and CEOs of established startups Investment bankers, transactional lawyers, and private equity investors Attendance by multiple company representatives will foster teamwork and amplify the View Details
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Strategy - Doctoral
Strategy The doctoral program in Strategy encourages students to pursue multi-disciplinary research that utilizes multiple methodologies—quantitative, as well as qualitative—to study how companies and industries around the world develop...
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- December 2011 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Chairman Zhang and Broad Group: Growth Dilemmas
By: Christopher Marquis, Nancy Hua Dai and Juelin Yin
Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Group, had developed a series of innovative products aimed at solving China's environmental problems. Broad Group's products, services, and management were guided by values that prioritized morals, responsibility, environmental...
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Marquis, Christopher, Nancy Hua Dai, and Juelin Yin. "Chairman Zhang and Broad Group: Growth Dilemmas." Harvard Business School Case 412-095, December 2011. (Revised June 2015.)
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, and survival of firms as well as their follow-on fundraising. The positive impact of angel financing is independent of the level of venture...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact...
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Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting - Recruiting
and try the “flip test” to gauge whether your personal experience or unconscious bias has impacted word choice. Candidates will be relying heavily on your company’s written materials, make them count. If your View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
intellectual property, it creates questions as to how the original creator and "owner" should act. As Gary King suggests, "Treating customers like thieves is a certain recipe for failure." The impact of technological,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Global Ambition
two kids and a dog, living in Beijing. To show their appreciation for the tremendous impact HBS has had on their lives, Kao and Chew have given back to the School consistently since graduation, both as volunteers and donors. They help out...
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Overview
In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is...
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- April 2021 (Revised January 2022)
- Supplement
SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (B)
By: Nien-he Hsieh, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and F. Christopher Eaglin
SA Taxi was a vertically integrated business that operated in South Africa’s distinctive taxi industry. Despite being plagued by violence, informal structures, unsafe road practices and lack of government support, the taxi industry had grown to become South Africa’s...
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Corporate Accountability;
Ownership;
Ownership Stake;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Situation or Environment;
Transportation Industry;
South Africa;
Africa
Hsieh, Nien-he, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and F. Christopher Eaglin. "SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-141, April 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
- Web
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expand into cognac with the goal of building the next major alcoholic beverages conglomerate. But the company was still heavily reliant on capital. How could Weaver convince new investors that her plans for cognac would yield success?...
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- 22 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: 3M
Bencic (HBS ‘14), Strategic Business Development Supervisor, 3M Describe your organization in three to five sentences.3M is a global innovation company committed to applying science to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. With over...
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Manufacturing
- October 2018
- Case
Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance
By: Ramana Nanda, Raffaella Sadun and Olivia Hull
Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising its second fund in November 2017. Since 2009, the firm has followed a seed-led investment model, investing in tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are...
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Early Stage Finance;
Seed Finance;
Scouts;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Private Equity;
Investment Portfolio;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Networks;
Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology;
Financial Services Industry;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
Cambridge;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, Raffaella Sadun, and Olivia Hull. "Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance." Harvard Business School Case 719-403, October 2018.
- April 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Oprah Winfrey
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms, Katherine Miller and Rachel Wilcox
The case explores the entrepreneurial journey of Oprah Winfrey, examining how she built an audience for one of the most successful television shows in history; how she created the company, Harpo Productions, that produces that show as well as other media offerings; how...
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Business Model;
Entrepreneurship;
Leadership;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Personal Development and Career;
Strategy;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Koehn, Nancy F., Erica Helms, Katherine Miller, and Rachel Wilcox. "Oprah Winfrey." Harvard Business School Case 809-068, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- 09 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries