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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
out of our highly successful experience in piloting this curriculum across three well-subscribed J-Term SIPs. Student interest in this course has grown each year we have offered it, and we are currently collaborating with 30 students and... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding
By: Boris Groysberg and Tom Quinn
This case traces the history and growth of the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. From its development in 1993 by tiny studio Wizards of the Coast, to Wizards’ acquisition by toy giant Hasbro in 1999, to its evolution into a billion-dollar brand in 2023,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Change Management; Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Business Cycles; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Product Development; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle; Japan
Groysberg, Boris, and Tom Quinn. "Wizards of the Coast and Magic: The Rebounding." Harvard Business School Case 424-047, July 2024.
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
thriving in today’s flat, networked, increasingly collaborative organizations. The third reason is the skills transfer gap. Simply put, most executives do not seem to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to their jobs. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), younger firms, and size of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research and promote View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
often need organizational change that the retailer is reluctant to make. Implementing analytic skills might require collaboration across multiple functions. Analytics are simply not "fun" for many people. Q: How can managers... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
of purpose and is willing to seek collaboration is likely to solve problems. Q: What are you working on now? A: My colleagues and I are "bringing society in" to Harvard by continuing to develop the Harvard Advanced Leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
social networking, which both change and enhance existing service offerings. Another way that Weber Shandwick is adapting to new technologies is through an Internet-based platform called WeberWorks (3.0) that fosters communication and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
solutions to the HIV/AIDS crisis must take into account the economics of ARV pricing strategies, the politics of the patent environment, and the strategic choices that have enabled these organizations to be profitable while serving the poor. A new dedication of public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
organization and its employees. Podolny, Khurana, and Hill-Popper collaborated on an e-mail interview to explain their latest research for HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you wrote in your working paper, the past century saw a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M. Viceira and his View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
are going to be so competitive with each other that the thought of collaboration is never going to cross your minds. Women will come in willing and able and ready, and you’re going to lose,’ ” she remembers. Brandt, one of 38 women in the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
science, and computing. The mounting evidence is clear: These tools can promote employee collaboration and knowledge sharing across silos. They can help employees make faster decisions, develop more innovative ideas for products and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
and operators with other clients. However, Emergia also needs to think about how Fonaveu will react and whether these tactics will endanger the collaborative relationship the couples have been working toward. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
in 2012 to 14 million in 2013. The question remains, however, whether displays that use E Ink’s technology will continue to dominate the market. A no-door policy: With marketing, manufacturing, and R&D under one roof, E Ink employees can communicate and View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
dramatically reducing preventable blindness worldwide. United Stationers, not in our sample but a higher-ambition company, has been able to use higher purpose to do good: Employees want to help others through community projects they define and work on together. And by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Arab Art and Social Thought which bridges the social sciences and arts at the al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYUAD. Al-Dabbagh holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from University of Oxford. For more information on research and artistic View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
representing pharma, energy, and investment discussed their responses, and those of other corporations, and the critical roles that partnerships and collaboration with US and other non-Ukrainian companies can play in supporting their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust... View Details