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  • December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

Specialty Medical Chemicals

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Lucinda Doran
A new general manager is supposed to rekindle growth. Seven months later, he questions the abilities of his direct reports. An organizational psychologist is brought in to assess his people. The general manager now has to decide who to keep and how to structure his... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Employees; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 11 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

Fellows. The Leadership Fellows program is designed so that recent graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive... View Details
  • October 2017
  • Article

Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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  • October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rock Health

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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  • July 2010
  • Case

Mekong Capital: Building a Culture of Leadership in Vietnam

By: Christopher Marquis, Vinay Ganti, Kevin Smith and Doug Guthrie
Mekong Capital, a private equity firm specializing in investing in Vietnam, had grown dramatically since its inception in 2002 and faced numerous organizational issues in 2007. There was a shortage of qualified middle managers, an overall lack of leadership, and a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

Research Community - Doctoral

and execute a major piece of original scholarly work. The School’s global connections and reputation give doctoral students access to industry, academia, government, and other organizations and institutions worldwide. A far-reaching... View Details
  • Article

Making Exit Interviews Count

By: Everett Spain and Boris Groysberg
In the knowledge economy, skilled employees are the assets that drive organizational success. Thus companies must learn from them—why they stay, why they leave, and how the organization needs to change. A thoughtful exit interview—whether it be a face-to-face... View Details
Keywords: Information; Management Practices and Processes; Retention; Resignation and Termination
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  • November 2024
  • Background Note

Social Enterprise in the MENA Region

By: Brian Trelstad and Ahmed Dahawy
This research note provides an overview of the socio-economic landscape of social enterprise in the Middle East and North Africa. It highlights the diversity of players in the region including social enterprise organizations (in their many forms) and supporting... View Details
Keywords: MENA; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Diasporas; Social Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Geographic Scope; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Demographics; Health Industry; Service Industry; Tourism Industry; Egypt; Morocco; North Africa; Tunisia; Jordan; Lebanon; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East
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  • October 2010
  • Article

Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams

By: Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, Robert Chapman Wood, George Westerman and Charles A. O'Reilly III
This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We operationalize exploitation and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
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  • Program

Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

platform by businesses, governments, and/or consumers Understand the influence of data privacy laws, antitrust policy, and regulations Manage platforms as a successful business Maximize value for your business by interacting with the... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

challenge is to set a climate where psychological safety, accountability, and pressure to do the best possible work exist together. "We're in a new world, and our old management models don't fit as well as we would like," she says. "Those... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 02 Feb 2022
  • News

The Key to Retaining Low Wage Workers? Opportunity for Growth, Survey Says

  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

  Publications May-June 2015 Human Resource Management Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multi-stakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago By: Beer, Michael, Paul Boselie, and Chris Brewster Abstract—Thirty... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

in 1985 as the outstanding contribution to management thought. More awards & honors Affiliated Organizations & Institutions Porter Prizes The Porter Prize recognizes outstanding companies that have achieved... View Details
  • Program

Leading Global Businesses

authentic global leader who can step up to more challenging roles. You'll develop global acumen in realms as diverse as purposeful leadership in a multi-stakeholder world, strategy, customer-centric marketing, the structure, culture and operation of global View Details
  • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

The Carlyle Group

By: Robert G. Eccles and Carin-Isabel Knoop
This case describes the investment philosophy, organizational structure, management processes and culture of the largest private equity firm in the world measured in terms of assets under management ($89 billion). The Carlyle Group is distinctive in several ways,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Assets; Private Equity; Investment; Global Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Asia; Washington (state, US)
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  • March 2019 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

CareerWise Colorado

By: Rawi Abdelal, Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble
CareerWise Colorado (CWC) is an organization that equips high school students with the skills to build successful careers through apprenticeships. Founded in 2016, the young organization has attracted interest from different groups and civic leaders from across the... View Details
Keywords: Apprenticeship; Nonprofit; Not For Profit; Labor Markets; Skills; Nonprofit Organizations; Education; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • November 2011
  • Case

Celeritas, Inc.: Leadership Challenges in a Fast-Growth Industry

By: Michael Beer and Ingrid Vargas
In 2011, Celeritas is a leading data communications company in the crowded, highly competitive, and ever-evolving enterprise-network optimization market. Having experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2003, Celeritas has recently seen sales decline and has begun... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Morale; Conflict; Organizational Change; Team Building; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Leadership; Communication; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Conflict and Resolution; Information Technology Industry; Communications Industry
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  • 09 Jan 2024
  • In Practice

Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

This partnership offers a reimagined competitive edge, where the embrace of human-AI collaboration becomes a strategic imperative for forward-thinking firms. Jacqueline Ng Lane is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 11 Feb 2022
  • News

Skills-Based Hiring Is on the Rise