Publications

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

11 Aug 2006 - 15 Aug 2006
Conference Presentation

A Match Made in Heaven? Joining Leadership Competencies to the Process of Organizational Change

By: Julie Battilana, M.J. Gilmartin, A.-C. Pache, M. Sengul and J. Alexander

Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change; Management Practices and Processes

March 2017
Case

Breakfast at the Paramount

By: Ryan W. Buell

The Paramount is a 44-seat diner on Charles Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. A frequent "Best of Boston" award winner, the restaurant is a perennial favorite among locals and tourists, particularly for brunch on the weekends, when lines often stretch... View Details

Keywords: Food; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston

November 2013 (Revised August 2023)
Case

'These People are Fiduciaries...'

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Amy W. Schulman

The fiduciary duties of loyalty and care, the corporate opportunity doctrine and the business judgment rule are introduced in the context of three vignettes drawn from decided cases that explore: a classic test of loyalty when one partner elects to take advantage of an... View Details

Keywords: Fiduciaries; Fiduciary Duties; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Business Processes

July 2011
Teaching Note

Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Erin McFee

Teaching Note for 408067. View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Employment Industry; Service Industry

Summer 2013
Article

Where Implementation Breaks Down: Why Can't Companies Get the Job Done?

By: David A. Garvin

A great plan for the future isn't so great if you can't execute it properly. Conceiving a project or initiative demands different approaches and skills than acting on it and following through. Here's a guide to removing the roadblocks on the path toward effective... View Details

Keywords: Implementation; EXECUTIVE Ability (Management); Management Practices and Processes; Performance Effectiveness; Management Skills

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September 1994 (Revised August 2011)
Supplement

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (B2))

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Solutions and detailed discussion of exercises from the (B) case. Unadvertised per Case Records. View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

01 Dec 2016
News

Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities

in the field about best practices and effective management tools, so they can expand their knowledge and sharpen their leadership skills. The new Bloomberg-Harvard partnership seeks to bridge that gap.”... View Details

November 1995
Background Note

Reengineering a Business Process

By: Richard L. Nolan and Thomas H. Davenport

Describes the six steps included in most reengineering initiatives: selecting the processes for reengineering; identifying change enablers; developing a business vision of process objectives; understanding and measuring existing processes; designing and prototyping the... View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Change Management; Measurement and Metrics

01 Sep 2003
News

Books

sift through the common management practices that the most successful companies shared. What the authors and their large team of researchers discovered were two distinct sets of View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 1942 (Revised December 1982)
Case

Dashman Co.

The vice president in charge of purchasing sends a letter to each of the company's 20 purchasing executives requesting that contracts made in excess of $10,000 be cleared with him prior to signing. The branches promise to cooperate, but no notices of negotiations are... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Accounting; Business Processes

Profile

Anddria Clack

interest and practice in a way that I had not experienced before. Through the case study method and experiential activities, I knew that I would be challenged to make important decisions in a managerial context, very similar to the CEOs... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

Competitiveness and Hurting America’s Middle Class,” by Professor Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman, a program director and senior researcher at HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project. The impact of the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

"Someone asked me why I'm interested in labor in the supply chain. The answer from my head is that we have evidence of how important people are to the total equation. So my future research will definitely focus on identifying better process designs and labor View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

December 2007
Article

Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

By: John W. Pratt

Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details

Keywords: Price; Management Practices and Processes; Valuation