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  • Program

Disruptive Innovation

accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and Performance

Keywords: by Wilbur Chen and Suraj Srinivasan
  • December 2012 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Plastiq

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford and Matt Noble
The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he develop partnerships with channels that would provide leverage or build out a direct sales force? And should the sales... View Details
Keywords: Payments; Sales; Channels; Credit Cards; Digital Platforms; Selection and Staffing; Cost vs Benefits; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Management Systems
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  • November – December 2009
  • Article

Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company

By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden
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  • January 2005 (Revised August 2005)
  • Background Note

A Note on Managing the Growing Venture

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, James L. Heskett and Michael J. Roberts
Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Leading Change
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  • March 2003 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Trend Micro (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
The founder and CEO of Trend Micro is seeking to develop an effective decision-making process for the company's multicultural executive team as part of his effort to develop a more cohesive and focused global organization. This case describes the company's growth and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Management Teams; Diversity; Information Technology Industry
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  • 04 Nov 2015
  • News

Q. & A. Why Are More Companies Passing on Going Public?

  • 09 Jan 2015
  • News

Report: Don't let integration cause physician micromanagement

  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

  • 08 Jan 2008
  • News

Why so many companies fail at succession

  • 14 Feb 2013
  • News

HBS Class Explores Lack of Women on Corporate Boards

  • 01 Oct 2017
  • News

A republic at risk

  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Video

New Founder Series: Customer Discovery

  • 02 Sep 2022
  • Video

Welcome MBA Class of 2024

  • 25 Mar 2014
  • News

12 Habits Of Productive People

  • 24 Jun 2016
  • News

Health insurance mergers put consumers last

    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Brightview Senior Living

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
    Marilynn Duker, CEO, was exploring how to grow the company while maintaining the culture that made it a leader in the field of senior housing. Brightview constructed and operated senior living apartment communities that offered independent living, assisted living, and... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Employee Relationship Management; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes

    By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu
    We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more... View Details
    Keywords: Disclosure Tone; Individualism; Conference Calls; Ethnic Group; Management Style; Communication Intention and Meaning; Ethnicity; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting
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    • 2015
    • Article

    Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24

    By: Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp and V.G. Narayanan
    We analyze balanced scorecard data from a convenience store chain, Store24, during the implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful, strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to... View Details
    Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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