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  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto

many project teams that were hard-working but at the same time fun and engaging, which ultimately offered me a solid understanding of business and made me a better person and leader. It was then time for me to serve in the Greek Navy,... View Details
  • Research Summary

Manager Specific Human Capital Investment: A Model of Block Trading and Firm Stability

I develop a model in which workers can undertake specific human capital investments in the firm and in the manager employed by the firm. If the manager leaves the firm, a worker has to decide whether to join her in the new firm or stay in the old firm. In case of... View Details
  • May 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Supplement

Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (D)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
This fourth installment in the Pfizer Global Clinical Supply (GCS) transformation case series highlights how over a decade of cultural and digital evolution positioned GCS to meet unprecedented global challenges. In 2011, Michael Ku became the Vice President of GCS and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Transformation; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Digital Transformation; Leading Change; Product Launch; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alignment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; Latin America
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Navy Medicine Introduces Value-Based Health Care

By: Alee Hernandez, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, C. Forrest Faison III and Michael E. Porter
In 2016 the newly appointed surgeon general of the Navy launched a value-based health care pilot project at Naval Hospital Jacksonville to explore whether multidisciplinary care teams (known as integrated practice units, or IPUs) and measurement of outcomes could... View Details
Keywords: Military Health System; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Projects
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  • February 2004
  • Article

Launching a World-Class Joint Venture

By: James Bamford, David Ernst and David G. Fubini
More than 5,000 joint ventures, and many more contractual alliances, have been launched worldwide in the past five years. Companies are realizing that JVs and alliances can be lucrative vehicles for developing new products, moving into new markets, and increasing... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategic Alliances; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Organizational Structure; Alignment; Mergers and Acquisitions
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  • December 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Lorin A. Fries
Corporate Head of Agriculture Hans Jöhr's mind raced in anticipation of the executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key opportunity to strategize far into the future, reexamining how his team's efforts in sustainable agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Value Creation; Quality; Supply Chain Management; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Health Industry
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  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Designer's note: Illustration created using stock images from AdobeStock/Retouch man, AdobeStock/Vali, AdobeStock/Summit Art Creations, and AdobeStock/vovan. View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

for the long-term. Our people see purpose beyond the built environment, creating value—and improving lives—through superior execution, innovative operations, and a passion for creating positive change in communities. Together, our teams... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

You Might Also Like: ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster? Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • Research Summary

THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

  • 30 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

  • Teaching Interest

Deals

By: Kevin P. Mohan

This advanced negotiation course includes both negotiation simulations and analysis of actual corporate deals. In the first part of the course, students will participate in complex negotiation simulations and debrief their results in class. In the second part of the... View Details

  • March 1999
  • Case

Hans Fritz at Novartis Thailand (A): The First Month

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Dr. Hans Fritz is 37 years old when he arrives in Bangkok on March 1, 1998 to assume his position as general manager of Novartis Thailand. Novartis is the world's largest pharmaceutical company. He had lobbied to transition from a staff position to this line management... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Pharmaceutical Industry; Thailand
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

Program—China to be a highly stimulating, rewarding—even life-changing—experience. To apply, submit the application, telling us about your experience, your organization, and your current responsibilities, goals, and challenges Answering Your Questions Our Program... View Details
  • October 2014 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

The National Football League and Brain Injuries

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
The National Football League (NFL) was both the most popular spectator sport in the U.S. and a major economic entity, taking in roughly $10 billion a year in revenue. However through the early twenty-first century, an increased understanding of the long-term effects of... View Details
Keywords: Employee Safety; Safety; Employees; Sports; Health; Ethics; Sports Industry; United States
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    Joshua D. Margolis

    Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

    Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
    • November 2006 (Revised February 2007)
    • Case

    Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game?

    By: Andrei Hagiu
    In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it the best chance against the upcoming Sony PlayStation 2. Initially called "Project Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Recruitment; Leadership; Management Teams; Multi-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Production; Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Video Game Industry; Texas
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    'Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion' (with Achim Wambach) ), 2005

    We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that the agent is inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than these standard results. Our key findings are: Inequity aversion alters the structure... View Details
    • May 2022
    • Supplement

    Third Point in 2020: Growth Is Where the Value Is? (B)

    By: Robin Greenwood and Denise Han
    In early May 2020, Daniel Loeb’s team at Third Point was evaluating a potential growth opportunity in the Walt Disney Company and whether investor activism might play a role. Battered by the effects of COVID-19, the company’s stock had initially tumbled to $86 and then... View Details
    Keywords: Growth; Equity; Disney; Value; Economics; Finance; Investment; Strategy; Management; Investment Activism; Investment Return; Growth and Development; North America
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    • 22 Jan 2019
    • Interview

    Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Curt Nickisch
    Amy Edmondson, professor at Harvard Business School, first identified the concept of psychological safety in work teams in 1999. Since then, she has observed how companies with a trusting workplace perform better. Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, she says.... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Trust; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness
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