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  • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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Electricity - Business & Environment

“I’m focused on creating a sustainable future in which the private sector wields its influence to encourage a higher penetration of renewables on the grid – both because of environmental stewardship and sound economics.” Taylor Leyden HBS MBA 2020 View Details
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Aldrich Hall | About

the Franklin R. Anderson Classroom ; and named alcoves, for William C. Landreth, Joseph H. Wender, and Philip M. Young. About the Name John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Aldrich Hall is made possible by a gift from... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

and sustainability. That's the central and animating theme of "The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders," a new anthology published by the HR Certification Institute. Professor Hill's essay addresses the question of how to develop... View Details
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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

business with local planters and farmers, while Emanuel met with cotton manufacturers and exporters in New York. Positive credit reports on Lehman Brothers issued by the country’s first commercial credit agency R. G. Dun & Co. (later Dun... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2018
  • News

Colleges and businesses team up to fill demand for skilled workers

  • August 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Allianz (D1): The Turnaround

By: Joseph L. Bower, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Examines the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Allianz--the deal of the year in 2002. Examines some of the challenges posed by the turnaround of Dresdner as seen by Michael Diekmann, the new CEO of Allianz. In working with Dresdner, Allianz needed to figure out what it... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Financial Institutions; Investment Banking; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges
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  • June 2003 (Revised October 2004)
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StorageNetworks: Restarting a Public Company (A)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Todd H Thedinga
Peter Bell, founder and CEO of StorageNetworks, faces the problem of "restarting" a public company by changing its business model from being a storage-services provider to being a storage software developer. The task seems challenging, but surely doable, with $200... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Diversification; Change Management; Cash; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
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  • 17 Jan 2019
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Caregiving Crisis

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

suggestions for MBAs and Alumni . Research is also available on a variety of specific social enterprise topics in the Faculty & Research section of this site. Alumni Career Hub (login required) Search the Alumni Job Board (within the new Alumni Career Hub) View Details
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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Hidden Workers: Part-Time Potential Read the Report Read the Report By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann In the report Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent we studied workers who are often excluded View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Pioneering Bridging gaps in medical equipment access by enabling sharing and redistribution through an asset-light model sustainable biopolymer production. Business Track, 2024 Crop Diagnostix Brandon Chi (MBA... View Details
  • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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Levels: The Remote, Asynchronous, Deep Work Management System

By: Joseph B. Fuller and George Gonzalez
Levels is a highly innovative startup in the health care space. They intend to revolutionize health by linking behavior—eating, exercise, sleeping, etc.—to changes in metabolism. They believe metabolic health can be managed through careful monitoring of changes in... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Business Startups; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Technology Industry; United States
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  • January 1991 (Revised January 1992)
  • Supplement

IBM-Fujitsu Settlement

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Describes the decision by the arbitrators chosen to resolve the intellectual property dispute between IBM and Fujitsu. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Intellectual Property; Business or Company Management; Conflict Management
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  • January 2004
  • Supplement

Jack Welch General Electric-The People Factory at work: Picking My Successor at GE

By: Joseph L. Bower
Jack Welch describes the process by which Jeff Immelt was chosen. In doing so, he describes General Electric's People Factory. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Leadership Development; Management; Management Succession
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  • May 1, 2020
  • Article

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Danielle Kost
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.
We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability
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NVC Regions - Alumni

Europe Regions and will be managed by the European Region for the 2025 competition. Visit the regional club websites and their NVC specific websites below for details on local entry and registration fees to become a member of a club.... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

received an appointment by Harvard Business School as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and was named as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. Ms. Beck was Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. Prior to... View Details