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- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
'more advanced' approaches to corporate strategy, company organization, worker morale and productivity, and so on. "I wanted to find a successful, well-established manufacturing company with a single product line and a clear,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
advanced’ approaches to corporate strategy, company organization, worker morale and productivity, and so on. I wanted to find a successful, well-established manufacturing company with a single product line and a clear, consistent approach... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
emerge, control and protect one or more strategic bottleneck, and prevent others from gaining control of any system-wide strategic bottleneck. I use this framework to understand how IBM initially succeeded... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
is to supervise and ensure that the milestones are being hit, and to synthesize everything into a strategic vision for the future. I have to be the one with my head ‘out of the foxhole,’ so to speak, to make sure my team is looking ahead... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
a giant in a way few have and redesigned what a major corporation can be," as one alumnus put it. Added another, "Welch's vision of a nonbureaucratic large organization makes GE the business everyone wants to copy or raid for talent."... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Norton conducted a field experiment in which employees at a large corporation had the opportunity to exercise on slow-moving treadmills attached to standing desks. The goal of the employees: To get in shape while doing their everyday... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
case. Star Power: Colleague Quality and Turnover Authors:Boris Groysberg and Linda Eling-Lee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) An abstract in unavailable at this time. What It Takes to Make 'Star' Hires Pay Off... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
now as broad in scope as the backgrounds of its practitioners. VanAuken is a case in point: He's the president of BrandForward, a consulting shop he founded in 1999 in upstate Honeoye Falls, New York, after years in the corporate world,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
there in sufficient numbers that they’re not all alone and cringing in the face of a dominant figure who can control their fate,” says Kanter, author of Men and Women of the Corporation, a book about corporate power, particularly as it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
you’re interested in exploring online education but aren’t sure where to start, this guide is for you. Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
outsider's view to challenge the status quo. Given the string of ethical failures of corporations around the world in recent years-from BP to GM to JPMorgan Chase-it's clear that leaders not only need to act more responsibly themselves,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
to a new co-ed school. If the plan failed, Deza knew, her husband no longer offered a financial safety net. But the OPM program had given Deza the confidence to rely on her strategic judgment. Over a month, she outlined the plan with her... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
and repay CPP funds early. Collectively, the results provide new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. The tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions on corporate policies and actions as the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
decisions and structure. Was this typical of an investment in China or did Bain Capital just find itself in a unique situation? What can future managers learn from this situation about corporate governance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
single largest reform initiative is the Strategic Compact. Its goals are to make the Bank more user-friendly and client-responsive by moving more resources, personnel, and budgetary and decision-making power into the field. Along with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne