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Transforming Customer Experiences
operating models and strategic service mission with changing consumer needs, shifting market demands, and an evolving competitive landscape. Details Design effective service strategies and offerings Develop operations and service features that support a highly View Details
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Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Understanding Competition & Strategy To understand strategy—what it is, why it’s important, and how to develop a successful one for any organization—you must begin with understanding competition. For more than three decades, Harvard Professor Michael Porter has been...
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Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults
By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal
Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Age;
Service Delivery;
Information Technology;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Kleinman, Arthur, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu, and Fawwaz Habbal. "Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults." Art. 729149. Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021).
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Case Development - Faculty & Research
Research Case Development Case writing is a vital force behind research at HBS. Nearly 80 percent of cases used at business schools worldwide are developed by HBS faculty. HBS case studies have helped refine the skills and business...
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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered around virtual connection, our...
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Help - Alumni
location. By choosing one of the preset search functions or refining that search further using the filters provided, you can find nearby alumni based on the business or home addresses listed in their Alumni Directory profiles. The mapped...
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Finance - Faculty & Research
backward integrating this trading company into sugar growing and refining on the continent and/or becoming an independent power producer and selling electricity to the national grid. Based on an HBS field case, anonymized for HBR....
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- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning
By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Education Technology;
MVP;
Product Development;
Product Market Fit;
Monetization Strategy;
SaaS Business Models;
Education;
Personalized Learning
Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning." Harvard Business School Case 315-052, January 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- 2012
- Teaching Note
ChemChina (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
- September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!
By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Standards;
Product Development;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Mathematical Methods;
Research and Development;
Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
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Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
Leaders in Virtual Learning This program features sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom. Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our...
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- 2012
- Case
ChemChina
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li, Lei Li and Hong Zhang
ChemChina is China's largest basic chemical manufacturing firm. It was included in Fortune Global 500 in 2011 and 2012, ranked No. 475 and 402. Its sales revenue in 2011 was 179 billion yuan, and profit was 600 million yuan. The year-end total assets were 254.2 billion...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, Lei Li, and Hong Zhang. "ChemChina." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
launch new products or programs, experiment with them, refine them, and even drop them. Digitally mature organizations leverage design thinking, lean start-up, and agile methodologies to power innovation. They conduct rigorous, relevant...
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MBA Experience - Leadership
Students in section leadership roles Student Clubs & Associations Beyond the classroom, students can refine leadership and organizational management skills by taking a leadership role in the Student Association or in one of 70 student...
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Evaluating Sponsorships - MBA
decide to decline in your second year, you cannot then apply for scholarship funds. Repayment options often change dramatically if you choose not to return to your sponsor after graduation. You cannot use student loans to refinance or buy...
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Consumer-Brand Relationships
Susan M. Fournier is conducting extensive research into the relationships consumers form with brands. Her work builds on the premise that, although marketers espouse the notion of relationships in current thought and practice, none have theoretically maximized the...
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Faculty & Research - Global
integrating this trading company into sugar growing and refining on the continent and/or becoming an independent power producer and selling electricity to the national grid. Based on an HBS field case, anonymized for HBR. September 2024...
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- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
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Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate...
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Keywords:
Cross Border;
Energy Markets;
Infrastructure Finance;
Infrastructure Development;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Cycles;
Macroeconomics;
Energy Generation;
International Finance;
Project Finance;
Government and Politics;
Demand and Consumers;
Infrastructure;
Utilities Industry;
Energy Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Argentina;
Latin America
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 218-041, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- 10 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method
is essentially a low-risk environment to refine your talking points and, at the bare minimum, make sure that you survive the dreaded HBS cold call. I have lost count of the number of times that the manufacturing guru or the ex-banker in...
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