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- May 2010
- Case
CEIBS: A Global Business School Made in China
By: John A. Quelch
In 2009, just 15 years after it was founded, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has achieved the remarkable 8th position in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings. The case describes the short history of the school and the reasons for its success.... View Details
- May 2010 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Hua Dai
As Zuo Zongshen drove the transformation of the Zongshen Industrial Group from an early imitator in the motorcycle business to a company that increasingly focused on innovation as a way to get out of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new... View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Harvard Business School (TN)
By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for [308012]. View Details
Keywords: Education Industry
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
INSEAD (TN)
By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for [308009]. View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Stanford Graduate School of Business (TN)
By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for [308010]. View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
The Center for Creative Leadership (TN)
By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for [308013]. View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (TN)
By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for [308014]. View Details
Keywords: Education Industry
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Yale School of Management (TN)
By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for [308011]. View Details
- April 2010
- Module Note
Balancing Specialization and Diversification in Operations
This note describes a module—taught as part of Operations Strategy, a second–year MBA elective at Harvard Business School—that helps students understand and manage the tradeoff between specialization and diversification in operations. The module introduces students to... View Details
- April 2010
- Course Overview Note
Competing through Business Models
This note was prepared to aid instructors in the EC course “Competing through Business Models” (CTBM). Describes the course objectives; the conceptual framework used in the course; some central principles that emerge from this framework; and the modular structure of... View Details
- 2010
- Book
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now... View Details
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China (TN)
Teaching Note for 309074. View Details
- March 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [509042]. View Details
- February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to... View Details
- February 2010
- Case
Go Mobile: The Phirbol Franchise
By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
To grow Phirbol, a telecom retail franchise chain in Delhi, India's underdeveloped markets, its founders were exploring ways to offer more value to the franchisees. In mid-2009, the Phirbol franchise was comprised of some 150 franchisees that had converted their small... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice
By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria
More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details
- 2010
- Book
Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in the world," these same schools produce... View Details
- November 2009
- Case
Dawn Stokes: The View from the Driver's Seat
By: Boris Groysberg and Lindsay Tanne
Dawn Stokes founded and was successful as CEO of Texas Driving Experience, a company that provided driving lessons, both safety-based for teens, and high-performance racecar driving for individual thrill seekers and corporate events. Although the company had done well,... View Details
- November – December 2009
- Article
Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company
By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
- October 2009 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Noel Maurer and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
The Cosan case introduces students and executive education participants to political economy and business strategy in the biofuels industry. Cosan, based in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer... View Details