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  • October 2005 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

MD Beauty, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind
Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin care company. They are considering selling all or some portion of the company's stock. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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  • 2017
  • Article

Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: Alicia DeSantola and Ranjay Gulati
Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to growth, particularly in the management of internal organizations. Progress on understanding these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Consulting Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 314-030. Following a successful career as a lawyer, Chief Administrative Officer of Fidelity Investments, and law school instructor, David Weinstein became a 2011 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During his Advanced Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Writing; Online Platform; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Leadership; Change Management
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  • January 2016
  • Case

Savannah Informatics

By: Kevin Schulman
John Muthee and Justus Paul are recent graduates of medical school and a unique program in clinical informatics. They return to Nairobi, Kenya with a passion to make a difference in their community. They have a team they know well, but need to find a project concept... View Details
Keywords: Information Systems; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Kenya; Africa
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  • July 1989
  • Background Note

What Is Marketing?

An introductory note for MBA students on the nature of marketing and topics encountered in its study. Defines the topic then breaks marketing into two major conceptual pieces--the tools, tasks and variables of the marketer, and the marketing process. In the tools... View Details
Keywords: Marketing
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  • 06 Jul 2018
  • News

CEO Activism Will Only Get More Ubiquitous

  • 24 Oct 2017
  • News

The Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2017

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Hot Wheels at Mattel: Reinventing the Wheel

    By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In 2017, Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., were considering which innovation path to pursue in order to "future proof" the Hot Wheels franchise going forward. Hot Wheels was the... View Details
    Keywords: Toys; Industry Evolution; Innovation Strategy; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decision Making; Digital Transformation
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    • March 2022 (Revised September 2022)
    • Case

    Can Papaya Global Keep Scaling Fast?

    By: Daniel Isenberg and William R. Kerr
    Companies that employ people all around the world also need to pay those people. That can be an exceedingly complex task, though - defining terms of employment, complying with global regulations, and working with huge quantities of data, among other obstacles,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Scaling And Growth; Job Design and Levels; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Global Range
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    • September 2003 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Direvo Biotech AG

    Describes the financing and growth decisions facing Direvo, a young German biotech firm with a customer/partner that wants to become an investor. Also discusses the business model for Direvo's directed evolution technology, with applications in both industrial enzymes... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decisions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Value; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry; Germany
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    • 15 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Remembering Alfred Chandler

    and view this page again, you will be able to play this video.   Jeffrey Fear Jeffrey Fear has been an associate professor at Harvard Business School since 2001 in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. Chandler's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2008
    • Module Note

    Service Design in the Context of Customer-Operators

    By: Frances X. Frei
    Taught as the second module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations: Understanding the Customer Operating Role (606-092). Addresses the design and management of service operations with significant customer operating roles. The focus is on... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Management; Design; Service Operations; Cost
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    • 22 Jan 2014
    • News

    Why babus can’t be ignored

    • March 2021 (Revised September 2021)
    • Case

    Applied: Using Behavioral Science to Debias Hiring

    By: Ashley Whillans and Jeff Polzer
    The UK government’s Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) needed to hire a new associate and were trying to increase the diversity of their job candidates. This decision was based on academic research showing that recruiters and managers often fell into common traps like... View Details
    Keywords: Hiring; Bias; Behavioral Science; Selection and Staffing; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Information Technology; Recruitment
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    • 15 Jun 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Slack Time and Innovation

    Keywords: by Ajay Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo
    • 04 Jan 2013
    • News

    The Age of Insourcing: How Tech Helps Megacompanies Rope Us In

    • 03 Mar 2020
    • News

    Do Universities Need 2U to Create Digital Education?

    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Span of Control and Span of Attention

    By: Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun and Julie Wulf
    Using novel data on CEO time use, we document the relationship between the size and composition of the executive team and the attention of the CEO. We combine information about CEO span of control for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how CEOs allocate... View Details
    Keywords: Conferences; Analytics and Data Science; Leadership Style; Management Style; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Planning
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