Culture Of Health Plan Of Action - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2021
News

Launch Signals

Zárraga told Fortune. “It fits into your life instead of you having to do something new or different and connects you to others, so you are never alone.” “With creating Flare, we wanted to offer an effective, practical tool, not a... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; startup; safety; wearable tech; women; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2001
News

Adventure in China

(January 8, 2001) reported. The article described how Zhang, through hard work and sacrifice, made her way to HBS and eventually founded WildChina.com, a firm that specializes in off-the-beaten-track tours of China’s scenic and View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

now-fairly-common American practice of employees getting more control of their own retirement allocations. You assert that the switch to employee control vis-à-vis retirement View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out that the HBS campus was actually... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

caps, for instance—"that we never see. Many bottlers are in a supply chain of their own." Action Steps Despite these challenges, there are many ways that companies can take steps to battle HIV and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

Stephanie Myles (fellow classmate, rockstar activist, and now dear friend!) and I were teamed up to support Cruz Companies, the largest Black-owned business in Massachusetts, with developing a five-year strategic plan for their property... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

about how to create social impact. Against this backdrop of intellectual and social ferment, Bradach and Tierney hatched their plan for Bridgespan. They came to the task well prepared. While at Bain, Tierney... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

March 2024
Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo

In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details

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Educators

January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal

Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands

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Educators

Purchase

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their employees for complex conditions and bring in house care for common conditions. Key Action Steps for Employers Set the goal of increasing health value, not minimizing... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)

President Kennedy had been shot. I was on the fourth floor of McCulloch, just coming out of class. That night I’d planned a “Retire John Kennedy” party and decorated my hallway... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Jun 2020
News

Vital Signs

and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

Although it is tempting to blame particular individuals, my evidence shows that these processes result from collective actions from all directions within the team: top-down from the team leaders, bottom-up from the experts themselves, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Dec 2003
News

Marriage, Inc.

Greenwald (MBA ’93). Single women need to create an action plan to meet as many men as possible in order to find the right one, says Greenwald, a Denver-based “dating consultant” who is the author View Details

Keywords: marriage; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Personal Services

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

from the center, to do new and better things with our talents and energy. Great organizations recognize that these two powerful forces must be held in balance if they want to maintain a bright constellation of managers. They therefore... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Nov 2019
News

Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation

the process—that you cannot plan the path to an innovation. Instead, you have to act your way there. Other key factors that encourage innovation are the vision leaders bring to the table and the sense of... View Details

17 Oct 2014
News

Committed to helping others

Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015) is concerned about access to healthy food and critical services for low-income families and plans to dedicate herself to helping those less fortunate. (Published October 2014) View Details

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