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Juan Leung Li

Juan draws on his own career journey and his experience supporting tech entrepreneurs and executives to coach students. Most career paths look like a straight line in hindsight -- those cases are rare. In reality, discovering fulfilling jobs and leading impactful... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

unable to keep up with demand, and product shortages loom. Inflation is rising. Racial injustice and economic inequality persist. Businesses are adapting to the new dynamic of a remote workforce. HBS faculty members researched these and... View Details

• 05 Dec 2016
• News

The Dragon’s Tale

demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024

these expenses would likely be categorized as the cost of goods sold. These expenses encompass direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in Information Technology (IT) and other functional areas,... View Details

• 2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia

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Bernstein, Ethan S., and Frank J. Barrett. "Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation." Research in Organizational Change and Development 19 (2011): 55–90.

• May 25, 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

By: John A. Quelch

Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Consumer Power; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Healthcare; Transition; Transformation; Trends; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Management; Marketing; Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; South America; North and Central America; Middle East; Europe; Asia

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• 18 Aug 2021
• News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

network,” says Lewis. “Our eldest scholars are already out working. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, and young professors. Educating people is the most potent and productive way to bring change.” His advice on how to change intrenched culture:... View Details

• 22 Feb 2022
• News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details

• 15 Jun 2021
• News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

• 13 Feb 2020
• News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

product in this period. Now suddenly, we're so good at those two things that by the 1950s and 60s we start to overwhelm the environment. So we're making good stuff, we're making lots of customers and we're taxing our world. And that's the... View Details

• 16 Nov 2010
• First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

deals with supplier difficulties faced by WildChina—a travel service provider in China. WildChina is a classic case of a company that is trying to bring a local, within-country product to a market outside the country (in this case,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 22 Jun 2009
• Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

three decades. Lawmakers not only weakened or dismantled New Deal-era regulations, they also failed to enact new regulations to keep up with financial innovation, spurred by technology and globalization of markets, explains Moss. Over... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

• 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

Pisano and David J. Teece Periodical:California Management Review 50, no. 1 (fall 2007): 278-296 Abstract Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details

• 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

of AUGMENT and the impact the underlying technology could have on millions of infertility cases around the world. How fast might Dipp and her team grow OvaScience? Would they have the resources? Dipp considered the best way to build out... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne