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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
people, which is hopeless. We just can’t seem to do that,” he observes. “The other problem is people getting along with Mother Nature. We are in the process of wrecking the planet.” The second problem wasn’t quite as hopeless, in his... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
the e-commerce program? Who are the parties involved in implementing the e-commerce project, and who will be affected by the results? What critical processes are associated with the successful execution of the e-commerce project? To... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
the office to benefit from the stimulus of solving client problems while "preferably working in a garden or even petting the dog or cat." If the problem is us, the solution may lie with us. Joe Fernandez recommended that we train ourselves to be better View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
perfecting the process of entering a market. Take on only as many new markets as you can open while rigorously following your process to make sure you do it right. — Dan Wallace (MBA 1986) My recommended... View Details
- March 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Schön Klinik: Eating Disorder Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman and Caleb Stowell
The Schön Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market. The case details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Quality; Outcomes; Quality Improvement; Strategy And Performance Measurement; Integration; Measurement and Metrics; Competition; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Business Processes; Health Industry; Germany
Porter, Michael E., Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman, and Caleb Stowell. "Schön Klinik: Eating Disorder Care." Harvard Business School Case 712-475, March 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
promoting its investment opportunities, to organizing site visits and meetings for foreign investors, to negotiating investment deals and incentive packages. In little more than two years on the job, we’ve had some good results: The... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
information campaigns and department managers' engagement in process improvement interact to influence the extent to which frontline workers speak up constructively, which could enable organizations to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
loving family” As with the work that won the Nobel Prize, “with Wagaroo, we’re trying to solve some standard economic problems related to market design,” says Exley, who joined the Harvard Business School faculty in June, as an assistant professor in the Negotiation,... View Details
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when in our conscious mind we would deem that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
for holding honest conversations with everyone in your organization. Used by more than 800 organizations across the globe, the strategic fitness process has helped leaders in a diverse range of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
make in a routine and disciplined way,” Lafley says. The “disciplined way” is the major revelation of the book. For Lafley and Charan, innovation is an operational imperative driving sustainable organic growth, not something left to... View Details
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
career. But he hardly worked alone. As many have observed, perhaps Edison's greatest contribution was his artisan-oriented shops—a new way of organizing for innovation he created that has evolved into today's R&D laboratory with its... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
well as criteria for the timing of intervention and, just as important, "the exit process once the desired results (predefined) are achieved." Several argue that prevention whether through planning, laws and regulations-or the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
involvement and participation from the inside. Even though the process may be slow and, yes, profitable, they argue that abdication negates an organization's power to foster change. Further, if all U.S. information utilities operating in... View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
Determining the best processes to work cross-functionally with the engineering organization has been an exciting aspect of my internship. I feel excited by Cruise’s mission and the impact I was able to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging IT infrastructures and... View Details