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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean’s Award
faculty and staff Service Leadership Fellows Launched in 2002, the HBS Service Leadership Fellows Program supports outstanding graduating HBS students committed to leadership in nonprofit and public-sector organizations through a one-year... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Conservation International in 1998 to help coffee farmers improve production quality, while minimizing the impact on some of the world's most ecologically sensitive areas. Two years later, the company began to offer "Fair Trade" coffee through an alliance with... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an effective team-based View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
partner organizations to work with students in Chile, where she has lived since 1997. In the second module of the required yearlong FIELD course, small teams of students develop or improve a product, service, or experience for their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and gathering staff for virtual happy hours to allowing people to alter their job responsibilities and accommodating... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
corporate board consideration.” As you organize your campaign, Stautberg says, “It’s best to cast a wide net. Networking is essential,” she emphasizes. “Who knows you and respects your capabilities? If you have a positive relationship... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Specifically, focusing attention on "interested" legislators' behavior captures important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2018
- Supplement
Scaling Swagbucks (B)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
“Swagbucks (B),” HBS No. 817123, picks up in mid-2014 following the events described in “Swagbucks (A),” HBS No 817122. Davis and Gorowitz were successful in their efforts to position the company for scale without negatively affecting the company’s foundational... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Matthew G. Preble. "Scaling Swagbucks (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-071, January 2018.
- Fast Answer
Market Maps
Where can I find market maps for various industries? Market mapping is the process of visually organizing information about various competitors in a specific industry or vertical to understand their... View Details
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
authors of books on sales and marketing. As a field course, ESM pairs students with organizations for work that gives them hands-on skills and incorporates the use of analytical tools. “It’s project-driven,” explains Cespedes. “Students... View Details
- Summer 2021
- Article
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016
By: Muhammad H. Zaman and Tarun Khanna
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla towards producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in Cipla’s corporate archives, the Creating Emerging Markets database, and... View Details
Keywords: Cipla; Pharmaceuticals; Drug Quality; Generics; Quality; Standards; Information Technology; Cost; Organizational Culture; Business History; Pharmaceutical Industry; India
Zaman, Muhammad H., and Tarun Khanna. "The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016." Business History Review 95, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 249–274.
- March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Dell Online
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Market Transactions; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Retail Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Dell Online." Harvard Business School Case 598-116, March 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
respond rapidly whenever necessary. As information technology escalates the pace and complexity of business everywhere, managers can ill afford to operate according to the bureaucratic dictates of the past. As View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Online Scholarship Resources | MBA
Online Scholarship Resources External Funding A vast amount of scholarship information is available online. The following sites offer helpful background information and links to other resources. Please note... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Maple Leaf Chapter co-hosted HBS professor Leonard Schlesinger (pictured) at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel in January. Professor Schlesinger led all 110 attendees in a case discussion and lecture on delivering breakthrough service in the 21st century. 4 The HBS Energy &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
race and gender relations decides to study workers on an oil rig, an isolated setting with low gender diversity? In our research on gender, my colleague from Stanford, Debra Meyer-son, and I have written about how organizations often... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work collectively. Because the project is... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Jacqueline Adams
correspondent, I “served” my viewers by presenting them with a first draft of history. Whether I covered nuclear arms talks between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev or the murder trial of cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer or art produced by Gordon Parks or Pierre-Auguste... View Details