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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
  • February 2016 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Express Scripts: Promoting Prescription Drug Home Delivery (B)

By: John Beshears, Patrick Rooney and Jenny Sanford
The pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) sector processes prescription drug claims on behalf of companies that offer a prescription drug benefit to their employees. This case follows Bob Nease, Chief Scientist at Express Scripts, as he considers methods to promote home... View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Prescription Drugs; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; PBM; Healthcare; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Active Choice; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Decision Choices and Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Compensation and Benefits
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Paycheck? White Paper, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, June 2020. With Frederick M. Hess. Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace , Report, Harvard Business... View Details
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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

clarify Starbucks’ desire to overcome racial bias and encourage acceptance and integration. Johnson will benefit from engaging all of his employees in discussions about serving customers well and using the View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

reducing the salesforce. Instead of cutting staff, however, Watanabe took the opposite approach, reassuring employees the company would do everything it could to retain jobs, deliver health and emotional... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19

By: Mark Egan, C. Fritz Foley, Esel Cekin and Emilie Billaud
In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a workforce of 160,000 in 2020, AB InBev... View Details
Keywords: Beer; Forecasting; COVID-19; Decision; Forecasting and Prediction; Analytics and Data Science; Crisis Management; Decisions; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Resource Allocation; Distribution; Production; Business Processes; Strategic Planning; Health Pandemics; Digital Transformation; Markets; Food and Beverage Industry; Belgium; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 15 Apr 2020
  • News

Bringing Manufacturing Back to the U.S. Is Easier Said Than Done

  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickering, or displaying surliness and stupidity.” The manual provides several other tips for stirring up “general interference with organizations and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2023, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni

he is working to reshape the eld to nd breakthrough treatments. Thinking Ahead Eight new ideas for 2024 Complete Table of Contents September 2023 Solving for Z Gen Z workers are in high demand—and they know it. Our three alumni experts explain how View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • News

Glue for the High-Skill Gig Economy

  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

feel malicious envy, they engage in counterproductive work to harm other people,” Brooks says. “They tend to undermine others and try to slow them down.” Revealing failures won’t tarnish your image The HBS team set out to test for levels... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. Remember, the path of your discussion will depend on... View Details
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

work, typically through online delivery companies such as Uber Eats, Postmates, Grubhub, and DoorDash. (Delivery services are not new, of course. In 2018, American consumers used third-party delivery services to place $10.2 billion in... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows - 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... View Details
  • 27 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

you have effective teamwork when you can't have the traditional structural features of effective teams, [and so] I shifted my emphasis from teams to 'teaming,'" Edmondson says. Valentine shared that interest in "messy" teams, making it the focus of her... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne