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Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

development Information technology Technology and operations strategy MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology Michael Parzen Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

technology, the “Metaverse Wars” case notes. The case makes clear that the metaverse hasn’t emerged as soon as its biggest enthusiasts would have hoped. Nevertheless, it still has the potential to become a truly transformative technology... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
  • 31 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

force, and diversity recruiters can offer guidance and accountability, but they cannot do this work for the entire company. The CEO, hiring managers, and team leads across the enterprise should not only partner with DEI professionals, but... View Details
Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis
  • 2011
  • Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

Company, which began by importing and exporting into West Africa but, beginning in the 1950s, turned to investing heavily in local manufacturing, especially brewing and textiles. The United Africa Company employed around 70,000 people in the 1970s and was the largest... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • February 2003 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

The Nature Conservancy

By: Allen S. Grossman and Jane Wei-Skillern
Almost immediately upon being appointed CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Steve McCormick undertakes a radical reorganization of this global institution. TNC is the largest and, by most measures, the most successful environment organization in the world, with... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Natural Environment; Nonprofit Organizations; United States
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MBAid Stories - MBA

Administration Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor); Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration) 27 Apr 2017 HBS Alumni News Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience Re: Saurav... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2023
  • News

Spreading the Words

Shafiq Khan (MBA 1982) loves to solve problems. It’s what attracted him to the case study method at HBS and, after graduation, to consulting at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Then, at United Airlines, Khan encountered another challenge: The company was spending one-sixth of... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • January 2020
  • Case

Khan Academy 2018 (Abridged)

By: William A. Sahlman and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded in 2008, Khan Academy was a global educational nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere in the world. By 2018, the organization had expanded into numerous content areas, product areas, and geographic markets.... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Sustainability; Scaling; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Education; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Teaching; Education Industry
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  • January 2022
  • Case

VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina
Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit; Education; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Wealth and Poverty; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities; Education Industry; South Asia; India
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Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023 - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

transforming both enterprises and creating a formidable competitor for Medtronic. I didn’t have the courage to accept short-term risk to create long-term gain. It took Medtronic two decades of expensive... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their organizations, exploring issues such as the role of the senior team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review Notable progress was made during FY23 in advancing the School’s priorities. Accelerating research on how digital and data are transforming management... View Details
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Investors - Entrepreneurship

Co-Founder & Managing Partner - Transformation Capital, Transformation Capital PMD 1990 Sean Dalton Founder, METEOR Venture Capital MBA 1998 Monica Dodi Co-Founder & Managing Director, Women's Venture... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), younger firms, and size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2024
  • News

A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford
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About - Business & Environment

on business and environment topics Educate students to transform organizations to become environmentally sustainable Disseminate insights from research and foster alumni engagement on critical environmental topics BEI brings together more... View Details
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OPM Renew

connections through cross-cohort collaboration. Details Broaden your global perspective and entrepreneurial leadership skills Learn how innovative global operators are changing buyer behavior and transforming bold ideas into new products... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

retained and grown." At HBS, Rangan serves as cochair of the Social Enterprise Initiative (with Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard) and as faculty chair of the Executive Education program Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace