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2012
Book

A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs--With Real Success

By: Gerald Chertavian

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Equality and Inequality; Income; Competency and Skills

2000
Chapter

Learning New Technical and Interpersonal Routines in Operating Room Teams: The Case of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary Pisano

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Practice; Competency and Skills; Training; Health Industry

03 Feb 2023
News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom and put the skills they’ve... View Details

21 Feb 2017
News

Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor

American sailor Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) became the fastest American skipper to race solo nonstop around the world on Tuesday afternoon when he crossed the finish line of the Vendée Globe solo round-the-world race off the west coast of France. He placed 13th out of 29... View Details

Keywords: Vendee Globe

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Books

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better manage inventory for faster... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

07 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

organizational structures that will help them compete globally. We have moved from 'manufactured in China' to 'designed in China.'— John Deng, Vimicro Pramathesh Rath, India's consul general in New York, emphasized that India is quickly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

to expand their market power through vertical and horizontal integration," Silk explains. Within the media industry, a central fact is that its many actors, from venerable big-city dailies to the hottest Internet sites, are competing for... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

24 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Keywords: by John Horton, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton

January 2021
Supplement

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (B)

By: David J. Collis, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

This case is a follow up to HBS Case No. 721-373, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (A). Following the events of the previous case, Takeda reached an agreement to acquire Ireland-based Shire Plc. The case follows some of the achievements and challenges Takeda and... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceuticals; M＆A; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Biotech; Biotechnology; R＆D; Talent Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Global Strategy; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan; Asia

September 2020
Teaching Note

Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (A) and (B)

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Amy Hernandez Turcios

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 321-017 and 321-018. View Details

Keywords: Latinx; Bank; Latin America; Representation; Scale; Inclusion; Coalition; Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Ethnicity; Banks and Banking; Leadership

April 2017
Supplement

Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (C)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey

Article

Naturals and Strivers: Preferences and Beliefs about Sources of Achievement

By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Mahzarin R. Banaji

To understand how talent and achievement are perceived, three experiments compared the assessments of "naturals" and "strivers." Professional musicians learned about two pianists, equal in achievement but who varied in the source of achievement: the "natural" with... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Perception; Judgments; Success; Competency and Skills

June 2011
Teaching Note

Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman

Teaching Note for 808167. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry

2009
Book

Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization

By: Ranjay Gulati

In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why?... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Cooperation