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- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Mike Critelli and Dossia Service Corporation
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Patricia Bissett Higgins
In 2010, Mark Critelli was a well-seasoned corporate executive who had recently transitioned from being the CEO of a Fortune 500 company to that of a startup called Dossia. As an AL Fellow, he knew that despite believing in Dossia’s mission to empower individuals with... View Details
Keywords: Health And Wellness; Health Care; Health Care Education; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care Industry; Health Care Investment; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Quality; Health Care Reform; Health Care Services; Health Costs; Preventive Care; Insurance Companies; Insurance Industry; Employee Compensation; Empoylee Wellness Programs; Patient Reported Outcome Measures; Patient Satisfaction; Data; Data Analytics; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Start-up; Leadership Skills; Disruptive Change; Health; Insurance; Employees; Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Employment; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Mike Critelli and Dossia Service Corporation." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-053, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- September 2007 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough
The challenges and best strategies for the commercialization of university technologies are illustrated in this case which documents an MRI breakthrough that arose from the Charles Marcus laboratory at Harvard. Students discuss the interdependencies of intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Patents; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
Fleming, Lee. "Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough." Harvard Business School Case 608-064, September 2007. (Revised May 2011.)
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight... View Details
- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details
- February 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
eReading: Amazon's Kindle
By: Bharat N. Anand, Peter W. Olson Esq. and Mary Tripsas
In November 2007, Amazon introduced the Kindle, the first electronic reader with wireless functionality. The case describes the launch of the Kindle and provides information on representative players in the industry (or broader ecosystem) who are likely to be affected... View Details
Keywords: Books; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Industry Structures; Standards; Distribution Channels; Competitive Strategy; Publishing Industry
Anand, Bharat N., Peter W. Olson Esq., and Mary Tripsas. "eReading: Amazon's Kindle." Harvard Business School Case 709-486, February 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 22 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?
- March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
The University of Utah and the Computer Graphics Revolution
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Computer science departments were new to universities in the 1960s, and the one created at the University of Utah by David Evans and Ivan Sutherland had a research mission to invent the field of computer graphics. Details the research process that led to many of the... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Education Industry; Utah
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "The University of Utah and the Computer Graphics Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 607-036, March 2007. (Revised April 2007.)
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Social Innovation at Salesforce.com
By: Christopher Marquis, Marley C. Kornreich and Bobbi Thomason
Salesforce.com recently implemented an innovative social enterprise business model whereby the Salesforce.com Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Model; Information Technology; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges
Marquis, Christopher, Marley C. Kornreich, and Bobbi Thomason. "Social Innovation at Salesforce.com." Harvard Business School Case 412-049, August 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
the economy that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT) in general and enterprise information technology in particular. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2020
- Teaching Plan
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Strategy; Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Demographics; Age; Gender; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Leadership Style; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Education Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
could be understood as male or female and analyzed intake data collected on the program’s webpage about the prospects’ credentials, including level of education and current job. Recruiters were paid a salary and given a weekly volume... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- June 2021
- Case
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not... View Details
Keywords: Agility; Ecosystem; Innovation Ecosystems; Innovation; Crowdsourcing; XPRIZE; Open Innovation; Partnership; Government; Collaboration; Co-creation; Purpose; Impact; Social Impact; Movement; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Ambidexterity; Ambidexterity; Culture; Culture Change; Global Teams; Experimentation; Space; Space Industry; Airline Industry; Start-up; Platform Business; Platform Strategy; Platform; Digital; Robotics; Robots; Avatar; Telepresence; Innovation Lab; Mobility; COVID-19; Intrapreneurship; Public-private Partnership; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Alignment; Leadership; Leading Change; Diversity; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry; Japan
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 421-085, June 2021.
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
development programs have entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of higher education, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Jumia's Path to Profitability
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Business Models; Business Model; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Jumia's Path to Profitability." Harvard Business School Case 721-355, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- April 1992 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1992, The
Brigham and Women's Hospital is a highly successful teaching hospital in 1992. However, the hospital sector is undergoing a major transition and the hospital faces uncertainty about changing demographic trends, new types of competitors, and technological and scientific... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Education Industry; Education Industry; Massachusetts
Teisberg, Elizabeth O. "Brigham and Women's Hospital in 1992, The ." Harvard Business School Case 792-095, April 1992. (Revised March 1993.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape
By: Das Narayandas and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Executive development programs have entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of higher education,... View Details
Keywords: Executive Education; Internet and the Web; Disruption; Management Skills; Leadership Development
Narayandas, Das, and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu. "Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-020, September 2016. (Revised June 2018.)
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic about the economic implications of biosimilar policies. Harvard Business School Case 715-413 edX: Strategies for Higher Education In May 2012, Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Consumer Power; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Healthcare; Transition; Transformation; Trends; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Management; Marketing; Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; South America; North and Central America; Middle East; Europe; Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).