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01 Mar 2010
News

Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology

to share their services and stories with the HBS community – and the world. The team set out create an easy-to-navigate ecosystem of sites that would not only provide the community with clear access to IT support but also enable them to... View Details

July 2002 (Revised August 2003)
Case

EXP Systems

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Discusses selecting investors and avoiding board-level conflicts of interest in start-ups. Using the "term sheet" in third-round financing as a negotiation over future governance and control rights. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Management Teams

January 1998 (Revised June 1998)
Case

Li & Fung: Beyond "Filling in the Mosaic," 1995-1998

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George

In early 1998, William and Victor Fung had to review their business, the Li & Fung Group, to plan for the next three years. Examines strategic and organizational issues including company culture, international expansion, and venture capital projects. A rewritten... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Strategic Planning; Asia

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

quantitatively, that it definitely matters which coach is matched up with which team" The question of whether matching matters takes on critical significance in the corporate world as well. Choosing talented employees makes a great difference to View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

22 Jun 2021
News

How to Re-Onboard Employees Who Started Remotely

01 Sep 2015
News

The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

To create a multimedia case about IDEO’s creative process, a video crew from HBS’s Educational Technology Services followed a design team through each step of a project with Peru-based movie theater chain Cineplanet. (Photos courtesy of... View Details

Keywords: April White

December 1997
Case

Franco Bernabe at ENI (B)

By: Linda A. Hill, Jennifer Suesse and Mara Willard

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Management Style; Strategic Planning; Crisis Management; Privatization; Italy

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IT Strategy: Helping Leaders Grow Their Skills | Information Technology

IT Strategy: Helping Leaders Grow Their Skills Strategic Initiative: 5.03 IT Management and Leadership Competencies By Shannon Breen on January 28, 2025 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity Paramount... View Details

July 2001
Exercise

Working with Your "Shadow Partner": Building a High Tech Investment Portfolio

By: Dwight B. Crane and Richard L. Nolan

Team-based exercise designed to illustrate the use of the Internet directly by executives. Requires going on the Internet to search for information required to construct a high-tech investment portfolio. View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Groups and Teams; Internet and the Web; Information Management

July 1993 (Revised October 2004)
Case

Aston-Blair, Inc.

By: John J. Gabarro

Describes the formation, selection, and experience of a task force with multidepartmental membership. The problems faced by the task force leader at the end of the case raise issues of who does the selection; the establishment of group norms, values, and goals; the... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management

October 2013 (Revised January 2016)
Case

J.C. Penney's 'Fair and Square' Strategy (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery

As he gets ready to release 2nd quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes he initiated for the business model and brand image of his company. A new pricing scheme he put in place in February,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Price; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

between 20 and 30 percent of the headcount is not optimized for utilization,” Berendt says. “About 200,000 people are sitting idle. We want to take this wealth of talent and connect it to Fortune 5000 companies.” These talent-as-a-service offerings will allow global... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

November 1995
Case

InterZine Productions, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green

Brian Henley founded InterZine Productions to develop interactive multimedia content for America Online (AOL) and the Internet. With funding and support from AOL's Greenhouse program, Henley has launched Golf, a unique interactive golf service. While he has operated on... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Capital; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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The Section Experience | MBA

diversity of the class. Play Video duration: 0:27 Sectionmates take their first-year classes together, sharing cases, classroom facilities, and their own dedicated team of faculty. Section faculty teach and View Details

September 2007 (Revised October 2007)
Supplement

Children's Hospital and Clinics (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Kate Roloff

Explores the numerous initiatives Children's Hospital and Clinics has undertaken to improve patient safety since the late 1990s--from the perspective of 2007. The case thus updates the A case by revisiting the hospital to find out what happened as a result of the... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Legal Liability; Leadership; Management Teams; Health Industry