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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and...
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- Blog
Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?
Intent, in which you explain your reason for pursuing the certificate. HBS Executive Education ">program advisors can provide you with the Statement of Intent form and answer any questions you might have...
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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the...
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by Staff
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
off his own consulting firm, Competitiveness.com, in 1993 to work exclusively on cluster competitiveness reinforcement projects. Consultant and Networker One of his firm’s first challenges was helping the 500-year-old leather industry in...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
excited when we shared the news that we were expecting. I had friends offering me their on-campus apartment to take a quick nap between classes if I was tired, others organizing the cutest baby shower for...
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- June 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Background Note
The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Discusses the challenges currently facing the U.S. health care delivery system. These challenges frame the problems managers of delivery organizations are currently facing. They include a burgeoning gap between demand and supply. Demand for health care services is...
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Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The Challenge Facing the U.S. Healthcare Delivery System." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-096, June 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
influence them. More specifically, this approach steers attention away from the political processes whereby administrative policies are formed and implemented . . . . These difficulties are compounded by the typical simplifying device...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products...
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Susan Young
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
several years ago to encourage frontline employees to develop “deeper” relationships—defined by the number of the bank’s services utilized--with existing customers. However, the goals on which the incentives were based were so daunting...
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- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy...
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- 10 Apr 2015
- News
General Electric looks to get out of the banking business
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
observes Willis Emmons (HBS MBA '85, PhDBE '89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. "We welcomed 38 new faculty to the School this year and hope to have a...
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- January 2001 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Novartis Pharma: The Business Unit Model
By: Srikant M. Datar, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In June 2000, Novartis reorganized its pharmaceutical business to form global business units in oncology, transplantation, ophthalmology, and mature products. The remaining primary care products continued to be managed within global functions (e.g., R&D and marketing)....
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Restructuring;
Recruitment;
Product Marketing;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Datar, Srikant M., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Novartis Pharma: The Business Unit Model." Harvard Business School Case 101-030, January 2001. (Revised May 2003.)
- 17 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference
afternoon keynote session, Cardinal Health Chairman and CEO George Barrett spoke about the difficulties of defining value in health care, and over what time period, as well as how his organization is making...
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Health Care
- 2020
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships
Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken in...
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-039, September 2020.
- 01 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Hurry Up and Wait: Differential Impacts of Congestion, Bottleneck Pressure, and Predictability on Patient Length of Stay
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
existing providers. Several premier organizations have already begun this geographic expansion. The Cleveland Clinic expanded but the main center in Cleveland served as the hub with its condition based IPUs. As they expanded their...
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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
leaders who managed to navigate their organizations through unpredictable social, political, and regulatory environments. To help fill this gap, Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project is building a rich library View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems
By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides tools and analyses for acquiring and allocating resources. The module begins by reviewing the importance of setting strategic boundaries as a basis for asset acquisitions. Next, a distinction is made between new assets acquired to meet...
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Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Asset Allocation Systems;
Payback;
Discounted Cash Flow;
Internal Rate Of Return;
Strategic Investments;
Analyzing Acquisitions;
Strategy;
Capital Budgeting
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-107, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products
The Art of “Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “A pot of printer’s ink is better than the greatest gold mine.” New York Times , October 14, 1894 5 Product...
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