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- June 2010
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Change for Change's Sake
By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Innovation and Invention;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Creativity;
Power and Influence;
Adaptation
Vermeulen, Freek, Phanish Puranam, and Ranjay Gulati. "Change for Change's Sake." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010).
- September 2009
- Article
Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?
As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"...
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Keywords:
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Goals and Objectives;
Resource Allocation;
Operations;
Performance Efficiency
Huckman, Robert S. "Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 9 (September 2009): 90–95.
- Web
The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Resources Credits HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director HBS & the Case Method Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry...
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- Portrait Project
Alan Xie
by someone else’s Yellow Peril. I signed my oath of office wielding the collective hopes of a generation of immigrants, forcing us ceaselessly forward into a more inclusive future. Representing my community is my moral imperative. I have...
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Research Resources - Doctoral
region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library —one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries—are available at the center of the campus. Harvard Business School Baker Library The View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
must ensure that you’re measuring an outcome that really matters instead of one that is simply easy to measure. And you need to look for—or undertake—other research that might confirm or contradict the evidence. By employing a systematic approach to the View Details
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Dan Lufkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten...
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- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
manufacturers—because all of a sudden you have a platform that collects these data on willingness to pay.” The impact on profits could be considerable if retailers made fewer items. When they completely ignored rarity as a factor in their...
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- 12 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly
stepping stones; they were experiences that expanded our horizons and offered us tools to navigate the labyrinthine yet exciting landscape of biotechnology. The tapestry of our collective experiences—ranging from startups to multinational...
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Contemporary Art | About
Contemporary Art Harvard Business School collects and exhibits contemporary art to create an engaging and stimulating environment for the HBS community and those who visit the campus. Schwartz Art Collection...
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- 09 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge
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by Heidi K. Gardner
- Research Summary
The Political Power of Weak Interests
By: Gunnar Trumbull
One of the most broadly accepted theoretical claims of public policy is the proposal that interests shared by a large set of actors tend to be under-represented in public policy. From Mancur Olson to George Stigler to James Q. Wilson, our most influential theorists... View Details
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Consumer's Relationships with Technologies
Susan M. Fournier is involved with two lines of research investigating consumers' relationships with technological products. The first project (with Professor David Mick of the University of Wisconsin) concerns 'everyday technologies' such as... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
pymetrics: International Expansion
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including...
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Keywords:
BrainTech;
Psychodynamics;
Psychology;
Hiring Of Employees;
Hiring;
Strategic Evolution;
Strategy And Execution;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Entrepreneur;
Bias;
Rapid Growth Stage;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Employment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 720-376, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions
By: Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes and Yuval Millo
This paper, based on a five-year longitudinal study at two UK-based banks, documents and analyzes the practices used by risk managers as they aim to gather and establish influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1)...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Making;
Risk Management;
Strategic Planning;
Power and Influence;
Business Strategy;
Banking Industry
Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo. "How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-068, January 2011. (Revised October 2013.)
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders Influence of the China Trade...
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- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
line of research “technology reemergence.” It began with his study of the Swiss watch industry, which collectively reinvented itself (and thus survived) in the wake of digital watches. Five years ago, he set out to discover how...
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- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
explains. At least once a month Zobel gathers the CEOs of Ayala's disparate businesses for informal brainstorming sessions. "We're constantly looking for synergies. There's excitement in collectively creating something bigger than what...
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A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About
Baker Library Historical Collections Exhibition “A Concrete Symbol / The Building of the Harvard Business School, 1908 – 1927). Those first HBS facilities, with modern upgrades, still represent the core of today’s vibrant campus, now...
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