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On August 24, 2006, the "Enterprise 2.0" entry in the Web-based encyclopedia... View Details
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Founder - Entrepreneurship
Student Journey Founder Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum Throughout your Founder Path, get feedback on your idea, testing plan, business model, and more from experienced... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- HBS Seminar
Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management
- September 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
2U: Higher Education Rewired
By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Karim R. Lakhani
In its 2019 Partner Symposium, 2U, an online program management provider (OPM), showcased its new vision: “Career. Curriculum. Continuum. A construct for lifelong learning in the 21st century.” 2U, founded in 2008 and went public in 2014, was looking to expand beyond... View Details
Keywords: Digital Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Make V. Buy; Learning; Higher Education; Internet and the Web; Innovation Strategy; Transformation; Digital Transformation
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael, and Karim R. Lakhani. "2U: Higher Education Rewired." Harvard Business School Case 620-044, September 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
But you don't save a business and turn it around without speaking to, focusing, and calling on the spirit of your people." Schultz's experience qualifies him for closer study in Koehn's HBS View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4626-06, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- December 2016
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations
By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-110, December 2016.
- September 2022 (Revised May 2024)
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Navya: Steering toward a Driverless Future
By: Julian De Freitas, Elie Ofek, Shaun Ingledew and Tonia Labruyere
In 2022, Sophie Desormière arrived at French roboshuttle producer Navya, tasked with charting a new course in a challenging sector. The company, which had recently listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, was burning through cash reserves and needed to transform the promise... View Details
Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles; Market Entry and Exit; Opportunities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Business Model; Auto Industry; Transportation Industry; France; United States
De Freitas, Julian, Elie Ofek, Shaun Ingledew, and Tonia Labruyere. "Navya: Steering toward a Driverless Future." Harvard Business School Case 523-046, September 2022. (Revised May 2024.)
- 2012
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Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
By: Gautam Mukunda
Will your next leader be insignificant—or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long been the subject of debate. Are they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam... View Details
Mukunda, Gautam. Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Today, SEI continues to examine the challenges and opportunities in harnessing the power of the markets to create both economic View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Vishal Gaur, Johnson, Cornell University
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For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship
For MBA Students Courses Our courses provide the foundation for understanding the processes, finances and context of entrepreneurship. They bridge the gap from the theoretical... View Details
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership
cutting-edge research and course development projects about leadership and leadership development, both within Harvard Business School and... View Details
- 27 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
Keywords: by Werner Erhard & Michael C. Jensen
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
practical basis, names are very important for doing deals in Islamic countries, as in most of the world, the professors said. Who you know is key. Similarly, relationships and family connections are vital in business. "Relationships... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Working Paper
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Asia; Europe; North America
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-052, January 2010. (forthcoming in: American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.)
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
implications for anyone who hopes to make a lasting, convincing argument. In a series of controlled experiments, Graeber and his colleagues studied how quickly different types of information dissipate over time, finding that the effect of... View Details
- June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
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Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Offices; Customer Relationship Management; Design; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Service Industry; San Francisco
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-127, June 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
superb scholars and among the world’s most talented students. China’s university leaders have been among the best in the world. But in recent ideological campaigns, its students are forced to sit through required View Details
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
a nonprofit association that supports the European research, case writing, and course development activities of Harvard Business School faculty. It makes available to the public at large in France View Details