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  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

complexities into the expansion plans of this entrepreneurial firm. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910404-PDF-ENG IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries John D. Macomber and Viraal BalsariHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

Stick to the Plan (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005) Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Decisive:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

presaged a world that is “volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous” —VUCA, for short. VUCA describes perfectly what is happening in the global business world today. Business is not running as usual.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

like scientists, to find viable product solutions; they also resemble adept politicians—convincingly justifying deviations from plan to diverse constituencies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51787... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Outdoor Spaces | About

designed to encourage continued learning outside of the classroom, promote collaboration, and build a sense of community. The firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park and Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” system of parks, designed the original 1927... View Details
  • March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
  • Case

Accion's Fintech Strategy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg
Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Financial Inclusion; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Non-Governmental Organizations; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Industry Growth
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  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York City, was merely a supporting act in a reunion tour of the erstwhile-boy band, New Kids on the Block. "When you tell that to people now they look at you like you must have your dates mixed up," says Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

salesperson heterogeneity by using a hierarchical Bayesian framework to estimate our model. We find conditional compensation in the form of quota-bonus incentives to improve performance. We find little evidence that effectiveness differs between a quota-bonus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

the role of observable (to us) boundaries between individuals in structuring communications inside the firm? We measure three general types of boundaries: organizational boundaries (strategic business unit and function memberships),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

that Clocky wouldn't even hit the market until 2007. “I would kill Clocky in about two days." —Diane Sawyer At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT's Media Lab, had developed for an industrial design course. She... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Future Vision

interactions is one of the things that I most love about Harvard Business School. I have found the Dean’s role to involve a lot more interactions with other people, too: alumni and business leaders, fellow... View Details
Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

workforce diversity initiatives. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf Cases & Course Materials Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Andrew Katz, Michael Morgan and David LaBorde
The Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) across all of its hospitals and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues such as standardization of care,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry
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Jason A. Kilar

fully separate company with its own culture and structure. We decided that ultimately Hulu was going to be a place for very premium content. I had written the business plan for Amazon to get into video back... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

relativity. Those interests led to degrees from the Technical University of Vienna and even some opportunities to work on projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. But his life plans took a sharp turn on a Tuscany... View Details
  • October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
  • Case

Paddle8: Painting a New Picture of the Art Market

By: Mukti Khaire
The Paddle8 case is a short case that presents the idea for a new business in the global art market and asks students to evaluate whether it will work, given the structure and unique workings of the art market. Paddle8 is a New York-based startup that partners with... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Plan; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Trade; Fine Arts Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

possibly going to change their attitudes about what they think their lives can be." Yet Harris doesn't wait for residents to come to him. Instead, he has reached out to inner city business owners, helping them write competitive View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Profile

Cait Haught

endowments and foundations. "I loved the job," Cait says. "I learned something new every day: capital markets, how to talk to clients, how to lead teams. They give you a lot of autonomy and responsibility; I managed a team of ten associates—it was a... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services