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  • 29 Jan 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Misiek Piskorski, Harvard Business School

  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

should represent a broad range of potential emergency situations that the organization could plausibly face. Examples include: shooter on site, epidemic, bomb threat, major fire, major external terrorist attack, major economic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 2019
  • Chapter

From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
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  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Design on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up About Internal Supply Chain Problems

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

like they were joining a community, as opposed to trying to quickly hire a Black person. They still hired them, but they feel less repugnant about it.” Jackson theorizes that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Help - Alumni

careful when you receive an email requesting sensitive data. HBS, banks, or any legitimate service will never ask for sensitive information through email. As a precaution,... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century." Think of software platforms as ring leaders of ecosystems in which a few or many companies can participate to reach users. These... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Web Services; Web Services
  • September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment... View Details
Keywords: Precision Medicine; Healthcare; Innovation; Cancer; Cancer Research; Health Care; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Utah; United States; North America
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  • May 2024
  • Supplement

Forest Park Capital (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri
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  • Web

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

services firms and executing private real asset investments across infrastructure and alternative real estate. He serves on the boards of Vantage Data Centers, Suntex Marinas, Ridgebury Tankers V4 and VLII,... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Julie Battilana, Harvard Business School

    Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM

    Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior work has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines--which we define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal... View Details
    • November 2006
    • Case

    The Pine Street Initiative at Goldman Sachs

    By: Boris Groysberg, Scott A. Snook and David Lane
    Almost five years had passed since Goldman Sachs launched its innovative leadership development initiative called Pine Street. Focused primarily on developing Goldman's most senior managers, Pine Street had evolved significantly since its inception in November of 1999.... View Details
    Keywords: Executive Education; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Development; Business Education; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
    • Background Note

    Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

    By: Willy Shih
    Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Transitions; Competency-destroying; Digital; Analog; Digital Transition; Modular; Modularity; Technological Change; Radical Innovation; Incremental Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Modular Innovation; Sustaining Innovation; Competency-enhancing; Noise Propagation; Perfect Copying; Digital Music; Digital Media; Consumer Electronics; Kodak; Sony; Panasonic; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Transition; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 04 Mar 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    Do People Want to Work Anymore?

    selection is less important, training is reduced, along with compensation, and as a result, there is a high rate of turnover with more time spent on recruiting (but not... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    CNN, Netflix, and Sustainable Entertainment Alliance. In this episode, we are hosting Joel Makower, the co-founder and Chair of Trellis, formerly known as GreenBiz. Joel has been a pioneer in the climate... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Aaron Mitchell

    Aaron (HBS '11) has spent his career building expertise in Human Capital Management for Consumer Packaged Goods and Financial Services firms in the United States and Asia. He is currently the Head of Talent for MassMutal, View Details
    • 01 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 1

    Case 810-018 This case study provides an overview of Intuit's growth and, in particular, the sales and service initiatives that historically fueled the company's growth from start-up to a corporation. It... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Supply- and Demand-Side Effects in Performance Appraisals: The Role of Gender and Race

    By: Iris Bohnet, Oliver P. Hauser and Ariella Kristal
    Performance reviews in firms are common but controversial. Managers’ subjective appraisals of their employees’ performance and employees’ self-evaluations might be affected by demographic characteristics, interact with each other as self-evaluations are typically... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Appraisals; Gender; Race; Performance Evaluation
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    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request the Data A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Robert S. Abbott Chicago Defender, 1905–1940 Benjamin Abrams Emerson Radio &... View Details