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Managing Health Care Delivery

compassionate care in a cost-effective and integrated manner—even in the face of rising expectations, shifting health policies, and constrained resources. This program is offered in collaboration with the HBS Health Care Initiative. Key Benefits Through a combination... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • Program

Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

businesses seeking the best opportunities for growth in the region need exceptional leaders—executives who are bold decision-makers, global thinkers, and skilled strategists. Taught in a series of modules offered in Boston and Dubai, this... View Details
  • 2017
  • Other Teaching and Training Material

Organizational Behavior Reading: Negotiation

By: Max Bazerman, Francesca Gino and Katherine Shonk
Core Curriculum in Organizational Behavior is a series of readings that cover fundamental course material in Organizational Behavior. Readings include videos and interactive illustrations to help students master complex concepts. Managerial, executive, and... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Preparation; Analysis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • January 2016 (Revised April 2017)
  • Case

The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies

By: W. Carl Kester
This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and option pricing for beginning finance students. Analysis of the case requires students to compare the prices of put and call options with various exercise prices and maturity dates on two... View Details
Keywords: Options; Option Contract; Option Pricing; Derivatives; Mutual Funds; Call Options; Put Options; Stock Options; Risk and Uncertainty; Volatility; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • December 2022
  • Article

Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo

By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections... View Details
Keywords: Social Skills; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Togo
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Strategies for Value Creation (MBA Course)

By: Benjamin C. Esty
SVC is a capstone course that integrates topics from finance, strategy, and leadership. It is intentionally cross-functional and designed to force integration at the end  of the MBA program.  Students develop a value creation mindset and learn that value creation is an... View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation

By: Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan Thomke and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali
Do senior managers help or hurt business experiments? Despite the widespread adoption of business experiments to guide strategic decision-making, we lack a scholarly understanding of what role senior managers play in firm experimentation. Using proprietary data of live... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation; Search; New Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Learning; Performance
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  • August 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read rate module targeted at fixed position readers that might be found in loading docks... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Failure; Diversification; Integration; Semiconductor Industry
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Finance for Senior Executives

core skills in a broad strategic context Blended Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in a blended Executive Education program at Harvard Business School, you get the best of both worlds—a powerful learning experience that combines highly immersive in-person... View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

new therapeutic avenues through the modulation of normal biological pathways to reprogram cellular machinery through the development of de novo first-in-class compounds for neurodegenerative diseases and multiple cancers, including... View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The Value of Options and the Power of Modularity

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
This is the first chapter in Part 3. Its purpose is to contrast the value structure of platform systems with step processes from a technological perspective. I first review the basic technical architecture of computers and argue that every computer is inherently a... View Details
Keywords: Platform Systems; Step Processes; Computer Architecture; Modularity; Information Technology; Digital Platforms
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  • Teaching

Overview

By: Nancy F. Koehn
My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is... View Details
  • July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih
For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry
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Lean Startup Management Practices

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Many information technology startups have embraced "lean startup" management practices. Lean startups confront high levels of uncertainty about both customer problems and product solutions: the strength of demand for new... View Details

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Overview

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Course Requirements

Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

Career Focus

For... View Details
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

to tackle challenges in the Chinese market, such as copycat competitors, labor costs, and other factors that can slow growth. Taught in a series of modules offered in Boston and China, this China senior executive leadership program helps... View Details

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • April 2004 (Revised November 2004)
    • Background Note

    Why Complex Systems Fail

    Operationally excellent organizations create competitive opportunities for themselves that are not available to their peers. One view of the manager's competitive dilemma is to pick the right position for his organization, differentiating it, for example, as a... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Complexity
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    • April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
    • Module Note

    Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment is a case-based course about project finance for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a single-purpose industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Financing and Loans
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    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    Gio Traverso’s lab at MIT and interventional radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Steve is an internal medicine clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an engineer with expertise in immune modulation and biomaterials,... View Details