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  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Laser focus on medical breakthroughs

a number of groundbreaking companies, including Transgenic Sciences, a developer of novel manufacturing processes for new drugs, which was acquired by Genzyme. She also founded Lumenos, a consumer-directed... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

  PublicationsSeven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution Author:Robert L. Simons Publication: Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

If you don't know where you're going, any map will do.1 This conventional wisdom sounds right to many managers. It highlights the safety of having a clear objective for your management actions. It implies that all management View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • October 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

King Arthur Flour

By: Thomas J. DeLong, James Holian and Joshua Weiss
Steve Voigt, the CEO of King Arthur Flour, must determine how the company can continue to grow, whilst preserving its unique culture. In 1996, the company was sold to employees in as ESOP transaction. The following decade saw significant growth, despite declining sales... View Details
Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Employee Ownership
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  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

information advantages across delegates and delegators, (2) reports both stocks and flows in the measures of account, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due process to match across periods the actions View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

perhaps extremely severe, that are routine because they can be anticipated and prepared for) and "true crises" (which, because of significant novelty, cannot be dealt with exclusively by pre-determined emergency View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011). Abstract Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

situation facing Gary Gottlieb, president of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), prior to the opening of BWH's integrated cardiovascular center. This case allows students to develop an appreciation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

foundations in the hacker culture appears to be a contradiction in terms? O'Mahony: The hacker culture prizes autonomy and self-determination. Eric Raymond defines hackers as those who love programming for... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Performance Goals and Incentives This module explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the strategy of the organization. We demonstrate how to use... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

“Culture Is Everything”

IBM chairman Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA ’65) discussed the importance of strategy, execution, and culture when transforming an institution, as part of the MBA Program’s... View Details
Keywords: IBM; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 22 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

good men to make soldiers.” As the son of Cantonese immigrants, this Chinese proverb illustrates the cultural undertones associated with a career in the military. Growing up in a staunchly liberal bastion on... View Details
  • 21 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

managing the investment of their assets. That being said, we also had the opportunity to advise clients on how to best achieve their philanthropic goals. To this end we were able to guide artists on establishing foundations to preserve... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

she plans for the next year and tries to manage a difficult board of directors in the challenging entertainment industry. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813043-PDF-ENG Lyric Dinner Theater (B)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

developed and distributed in China, had to come up with a realistic business plan projection a couple of years ago. It required an estimation of the share View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book a source of both powerful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

national office. The national office proposes to play a screening role whereby a national growth committee will "green-light" the plans of local schools to create multi-site regions in selected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

multiple channels can facilitate collective action via redundancy, the sending of the same message along multiple paths or else repeatedly along the same path (Chwe, 1995 and De Jaegher, 2011). This paper... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

appointed president of Takeda in 2003 and chief executive in 2009. By 2013, Takeda was in the midst of implementing its new Vision 2020 plan, a strategic plan for the evolving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

2008, targeted at millions of low-income Indian consumers who did not have access to safe drinking water. The case describes in detail the product development and launch process that required HUL, the $3.5 billion Indian subsidiary, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne