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  • November 2009
  • Case

The HLB Turnaround

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura Winig
Ford Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Restructuring; Product Design; Corporate Finance
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  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

million. Voted company of the year by Exame, Brazil's leading business magazine, Natura has from its inception focused on serving the distinctive needs of Brazil's ethnically diverse population. Recognizing that the company could never... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • News

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

  • Web

C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

in the globalization of the Harvard Business School, and Christensen was a member of IMEDE's board of advisors for three decades. He was also a visiting professor there during the 1963-64 academic year. The... View Details
  • 2019
  • Chapter

A Claim to Own Productive Property

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details
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  • May 2017 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies: Building Breakthrough Innovations in Crowd-Powered Ecosystems

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Terri L. Griffith and Ann Majchrzak
Dirk Ahlborn, co-founder and CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) looks back at the evolving organizational design and community that allows HTT to be crowd-powered. Since the founding in 2013, HTT has dealt with building an organization with less... View Details
Keywords: Collaboration; Crowdsourcing; Entrepreneurial Finance; Innovation; Organizational Design; Startups; Business Startups; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Product Development
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  • Web

Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

enhance the global understanding of HBS faculty and students and expand the School’s impact around the world. Donor Lists HBS gratefully acknowledges alumni and friends whose generosity is helping to ensure the School's excellence and... View Details
  • Web

Alumnae Circles - Alumni

leaders. Facilitators are gentle guides for discussion, time management, group norms, etc. REGIONS Alumnae Circles operates and accepts new member applications during the annual enrollment cycle in the following regions*: Austin Boston... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

HBS Interns: Summer Takeovers

The summer internship experience provides students the opportunity to apply their learnings to a real business environment and continue exploring their career interests. With the majority of the class completing internships all over the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the View Details
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53855 Modeling Oral View Details
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices.  (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of labor has traditionally separated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Oct 2009
  • Research Event

HBS Past and Present

Harvard Business School has grown into a teaching-, research-, and publishing-focused global enterprise with remarkably diverse students and faculty and highly accomplished alumni. Eight enduring themes have... View Details
Keywords: & F. Warren McFarlan; Education
  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg. "Nobody knows what strategic conversations are actually unfolding." For that reason, many CEOs are reconsidering the classic command-and-control structure in which a few people are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao and published August 20, 2024. In today's View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology
  • 2014
  • Book

International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications

By: David J. Collis
This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or face international competitors. Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Alignment; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

occurred. “As the decades of research on virtual work would have predicted, productivity has gone up for many organizations,” says Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

scope. The general narrative about cartels may not be a story of rise and fall, but rise, boom, collapse, revitalization, gradual decline, and then criminalization. Yet, until the 1980s, the global story of big View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace