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- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
guru Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings; Matthew Szulik, president and CEO of the open-source software company Red Hat, Inc.; and Dean Kamen (7th OPM), chairman and CEO of Segway LLC and creator of the Segway Human Transporter.... View Details
- Career Coach
Martha Tassinari
Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional development goals.... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
e-mail to all graduates urging them to use this resource to communicate news and to share their reactions. “"The common metaphor we all bank on —that HBS is our own little oasis away from the 'real world' —was pierced." —Daniel A. Shanoff... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Abstract This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
30,000 megawatts of power, would change the face of European energy networks, use new technology, and help several European countries meet their Kyoto targets for reducing CO2. The issues are whether a small company like Airtricity has the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
Instead, leaders should see employees as resources to cultivate through a clearly defined program of support for professional growth, for example, helping to improve their skills and personal satisfaction. Gone, probably forever, is any... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
and life-skills organization serving foster youth and youth aging out of care). Our discussions about leadership and ethics—in LEAD, LCA, ALD, Managing Human Capital, and the Moral Leader, and outside those classes—are very relevant in my... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
whereas if you're a kind of a single-purpose performer, if you change the play, you're in trouble. Sahlman: It's an interesting human resources strategy to try to make sure that you don't have people who... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
coup against President Allende in 1973, and who is noted equally for structural reforms and human rights abuses. The informational void is by no means unique to these two countries, and this is why Harvard Business School Dean Nitin... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies, corporate culture, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and Clearwater. In recent years,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
that focus on entrepreneurship as an ongoing process, not just the launch of a new venture. Concurrently, he has developed a model of entrepreneurship that describes the process as "the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
how SAP is also using the program to rethink and re-engineer its Human Resource Management policies and processes to make them more inclusive and effective. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, processes, etc.) and the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
human aspect of how work gets done is more than clinical. When asked, anyone who has worked closely with Enan mentions her strong sense of empathy and skills as a communicator and connector. When James Harmon, chairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- November 2024
- Case
Demond Martin and WellWithAll
By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
This case study chronicles the transformative entrepreneurial path of Demond Martin, co-founder and CEO of WellWithAll, a health and wellness startup. Motivated by a pivotal life experience and deep concern for racial health inequities, Martin transitions from a... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Health; Recruitment; Leadership Style; Management Style; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Trust; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Business Startups; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Health Industry; United States; Chicago; Boston; Atlanta; North Carolina; District of Columbia
Gibson, Hise, Archie L. Jones, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Demond Martin and WellWithAll." Harvard Business School Case 625-041, November 2024.