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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
continued, to get an organization on the right track if there is a sense of crisis. “You must convey the urgency of the current situation and the requirement of doing something different.” Gerstner admitted that earlier in his career, he... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jom.2014.09.008 March 2015 Management Science Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In fields as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
learn more about leadership, managing human capital, and strategy to complement my analytical background,” Furuseth notes. “While at HBS I took as many courses as I could on leadership and View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
institution focused on small- and medium-sized businesses that will take a similar approach to evaluating prospective customers. BetaBank will rely on its technology to reject applicants who plainly don’t... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
both a car wax and dessert topping. At the moment, the cell phone is the closest thing we have to a fully converged device, said panelists, who represented device makers, telecom service providers, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
to AI models to analyze insect size, speed, and flight patterns, which then feeds information to small drones to intersect an insect’s flight path and kill the pest on impact. This View Details
- October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
SEK: Reimagining Spanish Higher Education at Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)
By: John J-H Kim, Mary C. Sauer and Emilie Billaud
In 2023, Nieves Segovia, President of the SEK Education Group in Spain, contemplates the future of her family's for-profit education company, which includes K-12 schools and the newly established UCJC university. Renowned for its innovation in education, SEK faces... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Teaching; Digital Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge Dissemination; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Education Industry; Europe; Spain
Kim, John J-H, Mary C. Sauer, and Emilie Billaud. "SEK: Reimagining Spanish Higher Education at Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)." Harvard Business School Case 324-050, October 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
there is as much creativity and knowledge among your customers as you could ever hope to generate within your own boundaries. Accept the reality that they collectively know more than you do about whatever it is your company makes, that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
and conditions. Sophisticated consumers might try to game the system by posing as customers who failed to read the "small print." What exactly is a merchant to do when a consumer violates one of... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines, so leaders use View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
government, if they hope to see their science & technology initiatives continue into the next Administration. The case allows for discussion of the following: leading innovation ecosystems, building public-private View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
in learning and development programs for hourly workers; investing in nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting systemic racism; making its products more accessible to underserved communities; View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas such as customer service, View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry