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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive,... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes in order to idenify opportunities for value improvement and develop reimbursement models aligned with high value care delivery. Read more about Value-Based Health Care Delivery Read more about Measuring Costs Action Research The... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Reckitt Benckiser: Fast and Focused Innovation
By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson
Since its 1999 merger Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a global consumer goods company, led by its CEO Bart Becht, RB developed a reputation for rapid product innovation and industry leading profit margins. RB's stated strategy was to focus on its Powerbrands and high growth... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Commercialization; Consumer Products Industry
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Reckitt Benckiser: Fast and Focused Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 311-116, June 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- November 2003 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Caja España: Managing the Branches to Sell (A)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez and Rosario de Albornoz
Juan Luis Rojas, commercial planning manager of a Caja de Ahorros (savings bank), faces the challenge of motivating the branches to sell more long-term mortgages and ponders whether to use transfer prices to achieve his objective. View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Banks and Banking; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Banking Industry
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Rosario de Albornoz. "Caja España: Managing the Branches to Sell (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-044, November 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
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Mohammed Guerrab | MBA
to improve societal outcomes. I worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Google this summer on Maps where I experienced how leveraging innovative technologies along with strategic business models can lead... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
the role that performance management systems play in improving health care value, enhancing health equity, and reducing workplace burnout. Robert Huckman is Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
showing that vibration at a precise frequency stimulates bone growth and improves bone density, OsteoBoost will be coupled with an app to track daily use and encourage good nutritional habits. The Why: One in four American men and half of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
help boost America's performance in the global economy. The May event was part of a series of city-specific "Paths Forward" programs held across the country that brought together expert panels to weigh in on how the national business... View Details
- Profile
Michael Farias
site," Michael says, "really opened my eyes to issues I had only known as statistics." It also opened a need for a business education. "I realized that if I had a better understanding of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
The decisions you make in a life-and-death crisis have a new, lasting importance. You can choose to ignore that, but you do so at your own peril. We are never going back to what we remember as business as usual. Why not? Because COVID is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard’s Next Frontier
more important to improve humanity than education,” said Paulson, who graduated as a Baker Scholar. “For 379 years, Harvard has had a profound impact across a multitude of disciplines that benefits all of humanity.” Paulson said the gift... View Details
Keywords: Drew Faust
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
the Cicero Group in 2001, working out of his house with a few colleagues. “When I talk to young entrepreneurs today, they always ask about my business plan,” he notes. “I have to laugh. My business plan was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 2010
- Working Paper
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
Repenning, Nelson P., and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-033, September 2010.
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
designing it for the future.” How has technology reshaped the business landscape in the 21st century? Karim R. Lakhani: Over the last 20 years, we have entered an era where the rate of improvement in these... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Gary Shi
friends from around the world. The event united Gary’s global curiosity with his capacity for leadership. It also awakened him to the value of general management. “I became committed to business as a career,” Gary says. For six years... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
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Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
two core tenets, saying that “Rent the Runway has consistently demonstrated an ability to innovate and improve its customer experience and technology.” READ MORE View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry
people in 45 countries around the world. Carroll also launched initiatives to improve health and education in the localities where the company operates. Her compassion, strategic vision, and business acumen... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Ferran Ayala
with my countrymen. I seek to foster and create the institutions that will allow people's hearts - rather than their class or skin color - to determine their true fate. From improving quality and access to education to helping small... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick