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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative pricing structure. Rather than charging direct fees for these consulting services, it proposed to the client that it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Teaching Note
Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care (A) & (B)
By: Ariel D. Stern, Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note accompanies case no. 622-009 and 622-045 (Somatus: Value-Based Kidney Care, A and B). View Details
- January 2011
- Teaching Note
Neoprene (TN)
By: Tom Nicholas
Teaching Note for 810-084. View Details
- August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
Duane Highley (AMP 177, 2009) is president and CEO for the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation. In this interview, he explains how the organization is united behind a common purpose—the concept of energy efficiency as a benefit to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
innovation and governance could have useful perspectives to help modernize the system. You’re a diverse group. How do you decide where to direct your support? Since there are quite a few organizations working on ranked choice voting,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
you asked at BCG? In the BCG experiment, our immediate goal was to make it possible for team members to have predictable time off each week. Typically, the target was one night with no work contact, but it could be any predictable unit of... View Details
- Web
Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Buildings & Cities Cities are a key place to innovate to reduce greenhouse gases The world is currently undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. More than half of the global population is... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help... View Details
- July 2020
- Technical Note
Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force
By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal
This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Australia; North and Central America; United States; Illinois; Chicago; California; San Francisco
Narayandas, Das, Michael Norris, and Amram Migdal. "Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force." Harvard Business School Technical Note 521-019, July 2020.
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
the cutting edge of management thinking, is becoming more global. We’ll have to find a way as a school to make sure that what we teach reflects the innovation that’s occurring all around the world, as opposed to View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. "And as a result, the resulting policies are defensive in nature, and they don't tend to produce the high quality of relationships that you need across... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question... View Details
- 28 Aug 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
excerpt. Key concepts include: Schumpeter's ideas on capitalism, entrepreneurship, and innovation still have great resonance to students and businesspeople today. Do Great American Business Leaders Share Similar Characteristics? Who Rises... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
case studies used in the course came alive instantly, and the classroom visits by some of the cases' protagonists were enthusiastically received. Furthermore, the program's structure - two three-week units (one in March and one in May) -... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- February 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
In-Q-Tel
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Kevin Book and Ann Leamon
The Central Intelligence Agency establishes a venture-enabled fund, In-Q-Tel, to allow it to access cutting-edge technologies. Fund managers face a variety of difficulties, some similar to those facing other institutionally affiliated venture funds and some unique. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Problems and Challenges; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; United States
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, Kevin Book, and Ann Leamon. "In-Q-Tel." Harvard Business School Case 804-146, February 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Foundation, focused on building the organizational capabilities of nonprofits that served the disadvantaged youth in the United States, has recently been named an intermediary in the federal government's new social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
enters a kind of death spiral. Reversing that downward trend requires deliberate efforts by the CEO to address each of the pathologies. ... Sparking Collaboration Turnaround leaders know that problem solving requires collaboration across departments and divisions—and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter