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    Jill J. Avery

    Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

    Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
    • November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
    a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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    • 30 Jul 2019
    • Blog Post

    Leadership That Defines you – Reflecting on my Time at HBS

    attention to what they do, rather than what they say." Actual strategies are manifested by the products, processes, and services that managers allocate resources to rather than the ideas generated in the boardroom. Ultimately, the... View Details
    • Article

    Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes

    By: Richard Bohmer and Candace Imison
    In 2000 the English National Health Service (NHS) began a series of workforce redesign initiatives that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Work Force Management; United Kingdom
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    • March 1996
    • Case

    Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)

    By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff
    Intended to be a robust example of the challenges encountered during the early stages of a large-scale organizational transformation effort in a professional service firm. Describes a massive change program initiated and led by the new managing partner along with a... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Problems and Challenges; United Kingdom; London
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    • January 27, 2010
    • Article

    Leadership with a Small 'l'

    By: Richard Bohmer
    What exactly do we mean by leadership in health care? Does it mean to take formal positions in senior leadership teams in hospitals, trusts, health boards, ministries of health, and professional societies-what might be termed leadership with a big "L?" Or does it mean... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Health Industry
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    • 23 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

    HBS Career & Professional Development is excited to share some of our favorite books from the Harvard community for Human Resources leaders. Covering topics from effective leadership, to mentoring talent, to creating an environment of... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

    Mike Anders (MBA 2020) grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. After attending Northwestern University, he began a career in tech working for a legal services startup in Chicago called Envoy Global. He moved to San Francisco after HBS... View Details
    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

    complicated, but there are obvious risks around the new EV technology, the new infrastructure needed, and the support services, which are much more expensive than the current diesel or gas counterparts. Highland was founded to be a partner to help navigate the... View Details

      Dante Roscini

      Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

      • 10 Apr 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

      Companies that outsource merely to shuffle off commodity work to save costs might be missing important opportunities to work with vendors and significantly improve the final product. "When it comes to the outsourcing of many complex View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
      • Career Coach

      Wendi Zhang

      business development/product partnerships for Google Pixel, Wearables, and Accessories as well as a few verticals of Google Home and Chromecast within Google's Devices & Services (formerly Google Hardware) team, ran business development... View Details
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      • 18 Apr 2023
      • Blog Post

      HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

      provides a variety of services and resources for them, including advising and counseling, one-on-one tutoring, workshops, and specialized career coaching. These offerings have been informed by the work of a task force cofounded by Holly... View Details
      • 17 Jan 2007
      • Op-Ed

      Learning from Private-Equity Boards

      If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron's shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
      Keywords: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services
      • February 1999 (Revised March 2000)
      • Case

      Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Coordinating Patient Care

      External cost pressures are motivating the adoption of case management (CM) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), but several of the organization's key professional groups are working against it. President and CEO David Dolins must decide whether CM is... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Boston
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      • 14 Aug 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery

      Keywords: by Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Jeffrey D. Horbar & Joseph H. Carpenter; Health
      • Article

      Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women

      By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony Mayo, Robin Ely and David Thomas
      Any list of top CEOs reveals a stunning lack of diversity. Among the leaders of Fortune 500 companies, for example, just 32 are women, three are African-American, and not one is an African-American woman. What’s going on? The authors studied the careers of the roughly... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Diversity; Race; Gender; Personal Characteristics; Relationships; Success
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      • 2017
      • Book

      Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

      By: Niels Viggo Hauter and Geoffrey Jones
      This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert... View Details
      Keywords: Insurance; Risk Management; Business History; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia
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      • 21 Mar 2014
      • Blog Post

      East Asia MBA Market Update

      pay outside professional services firms will be lower than the U.S. MBA norm and finding opportunities will require a lot of networking and relationship building. View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
      • Program

      Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

      and benefit from network effects and learning effects Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the... View Details