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  • 21 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

additional builders from Harvard, and leading VCs, entrepreneurs, and product leaders for a summit dedicated to learning, connecting, and building together. Daring to innovate isn’t enough. Innovation that... View Details

    Ryan L. Raffaelli

    Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details

    Keywords: publishing industry; advertising; consulting; information technology industry; grocery; nonprofit industry; retailing; consumer products; federal government
    • Article

    Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do about It

    By: Michael Beer, Magnus Finnström and Derek Schrader
    U.S. corporations spend enormous amounts of money—some $456 billion globally in 2015 alone—on employee training and education, but they aren't getting a good return on their investment. People soon revert to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Organizational Design; Employees; Business Processes; United States
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    • 09 Jun 2022
    • HBS Case

    From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

    In 2021, US Foods faced a problem that has become all too familiar: As thousands of Americans re-evaluated their work lives in the middle of the pandemic, the company—one of the largest food service distributors in the United States—struggled to attract and retain... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • January 2016
    • Case

    SAP SE: Autism at Work

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Robert D. Austin
    This case describes SAP's "Autism at Work" program, which integrates people with autism into the company's workforce. The company has a stated objective of making 1% of its workforce people with autism by 2020. SAP's rationale for the program is based on the belief... View Details
    Keywords: Software; Human Resource Management; Diversity Management; Germany; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Applications and Software; Recruitment; Diversity; Information Technology Industry; Germany
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      Julie Battilana

      Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

      • 24 Jul 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

      with users. This makes sense when you think about it—users are the direct beneficiaries of better products. And it's users' willingness to pay for better products that makes View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
      • October 2000 (Revised April 2005)
      • Case

      Z Corporation

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Matthew C. Lieb and Tom Clay
      Tom Clay, president of Z Corp., and founder/CEO Marina Hatsopolous must decide between using a direct sales force or using a value-added reseller to begin selling the company's new 3-D printing prototype manufacturing system. View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Salesforce Management; Distribution Channels; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry
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      • October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
      • Case

      uberPOOL

      By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and Amram Migdal
      This case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares. View Details
      Keywords: Uber; uberPOOL; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry
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      • 2015
      • Working Paper

      Replicating Private Equity with Value Investing, Homemade Leverage, and Hold-to-Maturity Accounting

      By: Erik Stafford
      Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high risk-adjusted returns after controlling for common factors typically associated with value stocks. Hold-to-maturity... View Details
      Keywords: Value Investing; Endowments; Investment Management; Asset Pricing; Private Equity; Investment; Management; United States
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      • 31 Jul 2014
      • News

      A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

      • Research Summary

      Making Machine Learning Models Fair

      By: Himabindu Lakkaraju
      The goal of this research direction is to ensure that the machine learning models we build and deploy do not discriminate against individuals from minority groups. View Details

        Alan D. MacCormack

        Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

        Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
        • June 2016 (Revised November 2021)
        • Case

        chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity

        By: Rory McDonald, Derek van Bever and Efosa Ojomo
        In 2013, a team led by Gopalan Sunderraman, vice president of corporate development at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.—one of the companies owned by Godrej Group, a large Indian conglomerate—was preparing to launch an innovative low-cost refrigerator. Developed expressly... View Details
        Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; India
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        • May 2013
        • Case

        Eureka Forbes Ltd.: Managing the Selling Effort (A) (Photonovel Version)

        By: Das Narayandas, Kallol Das and Kerry Herman
        The CEO of EFL (India), a direct sales organization, must decide which changes to the sales compensation systems would better motivate his sales reps and improve their sales performance. View Details
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          Tom Nicholas

          Tom Nicholas is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is British and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. His research focuses on the history of entrepreneurship, innovation and finance. His book (VC: An... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; high technology
          • 16 Mar 2022
          • Blog Post

          Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

          work with two of the most storied teams in all of sports. Looking ahead towards the future of his new role, Laitsas is looking forward to creating View Details
          • 13 May 2015
          • Blog Post

          Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive

          engaging with clients and directing the trajectory of two very cool projects in the consumer goods space. How did your RC year shape what you wanted to do last summer? My RC year exposed me to a world... View Details
          • 19 Jun 2015
          • Blog Post

          What is the HBS Show?

          privilege of writing and directing the 40th and 41st HBS Shows. The show is written to encapsulate life at HBS within the context of a popular movie, musical, or television... View Details
          • September 2017 (Revised May 2019)
          • Case

          Goldman Sachs' Digital Journey

          By: Sunil Gupta and Sara Simonds
          Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, proclaimed, “We are a technology firm. We are a platform.” By 2017, he led a series of initiatives to translate this vision into reality. These included giving clients access to its proprietary database without... View Details
          Keywords: Finance; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation
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