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- 05 Jan 2011
- News
Starbucks Unveils New Logo
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? Below, HBS faculty members Robert Steven Kaplan, David View Details
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by Staff
- November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams
By: David A. Garvin and Elizabeth Collins
Key topics include team design, team management, job design, employee empowerment, implementing change, and high performance workforces. In 2004, John Amasi, the director of production for a manufacturer of plastic pipe, introduced the concept of self-directed teams...
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Work Force Management;
Employee Empowerment;
Motivation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Leading Change;
Employee Relationship Management;
Performance Productivity;
Groups and Teams;
Labor Unions;
Labor and Management Relations;
Manufacturing Industry;
Texas
Garvin, David A., and Elizabeth Collins. "RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-063, November 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 2018
- Introduction
Introduction
BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of...
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Reinert, Sophus A. "Introduction." Introduction to Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought, edited by Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, 1–22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 25 May 2011
- News
Online grocery market reaches maturity
- Web
Business Economics - Doctoral
finance Malcolm P. Baker John Beshears Lauren H. Cohen Joshua D. Coval Paul A. Gompers Robin Greenwood Samuel G. Hanson Consumer finance John Beshears Shawn View Details
- August 1996
- Case
ThermoLase
By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
John Hansen, CEO of ThermoLase, must develop a plan of action to exploit the company's new development-stage revolutionary hair removal technology with negligible revenues and a $500 million market capitalization. This nascent public Thermo Electron spin out company...
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Business or Company Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Business Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Plan;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "ThermoLase." Harvard Business School Case 897-002, August 1996.
- 2018
- Book
Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought
By: Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore
When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he...
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Morals;
Politics;
Istvan Hont;
Jealousy Of Trade;
Enlightenment;
Economic Nationalism;
Markets;
Moral Sensibility;
Government and Politics;
Trade;
History
Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore, eds. Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Web
Organizational Behavior - Doctoral
McNally Jason P. Mitchell Ellis Monk Matthew K. Nock Orlando Patterson Elizabeth A. Phelps Steven Pinker Robert J. Sampson Daniel L. Schacter Theda Skocpol Mario L. Small Jesse Snedeker Leah H. Somerville Elizabeth S. Spelke Tomer D....
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- May 1994 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
Taco Bell--1994
Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991). To realize such growth, Martin embraces a philosophy of continual change. The implications for Taco Bell are dramatic...
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Information Technology;
Food;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Human Resources;
Brands and Branding;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Goals and Objectives;
Change Management;
Expansion;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Communication;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Taco Bell--1994." Harvard Business School Case 694-076, May 1994. (Revised July 1995.)
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
in health care and their longer‐term implications for providers, payers, employers, and patients. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-041_1b93ae87-97ad-46c0-9a76-1169cdf513c2.pdf Henry A. Kissinger as...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Strategy - Doctoral
F. Koehn Scott Duke Kominers Rembrand M. Koning Karim R. Lakhani Himabindu Lakkaraju Josh Lerner Michael Lingzhi Li Deepak Malhotra Edward McFowland III Cynthia A. Montgomery John C. Mulliken Kyle R. Myers...
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- May 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Taco Bell Inc. (1983-1994)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dave DeLong
Details the actions of John Martin, newly named CEO, as he leads Taco Bell through a decade of incremental and radical changes. By the end of the case, total system sales within Taco Bell, a Mexican style fast-food restaurant chain and a division of PepsiCo, have grown...
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Business Subsidiaries;
Transformation;
Economic Growth;
Food;
Leadership Style;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Performance Effectiveness;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Service Industry;
Mexico
Applegate, Lynda M., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Dave DeLong. "Taco Bell Inc. (1983-1994)." Harvard Business School Case 398-129, May 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Academic Programs | About
designed for business leaders, including MBA graduates, seeking to modernize their analytics skills. The program is offered as a collaboration between Harvard Business School, The Harvard John A. Paulson...
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MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences - MBA
existing technical knowledge and skills and prepares them for leadership and founder roles in technology ventures. Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and...
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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
Michael French and Andrew Popp) We asked BHR coeditor Walter A. Friedman, whose book Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America has contributed to the literature, to help us understand why salesmen are again the subject...
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- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of...
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Carmen Nobel
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
1985–2001 James E. Casey United Parcel Service, 1907–1962 Louis S. Cates Phelps-Dodge Company, 1930–1947 John T. Chambers Cisco Systems, 1994–Present Harry Chandler Los Angeles Times, 1917–1940 Roy D. Chapin Hudson Motor Company,...
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- April 2009
- Article
How to Market in a Downturn
By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Because no two recessions are exactly alike, marketers find themselves in poorly...
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Customers;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Spending;
Marketing Strategy;
Consumer Behavior;
Segmentation
Quelch, John A., and Katherine Jocz. "How to Market in a Downturn." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 4 (April 2009): 52–62.