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Philippe Rival

the sharing of different opinions are core to collaborative learning. The result is that no day is ever dull, and every day teaches you something you’d never thought you’d learn! Being part of the HBS community is like Discovering whole... View Details

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the industry has a structural problem:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central problems of the structure of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

01 Feb 2021
What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

some of it on added training to fight so-called structural unemployment of workers with the wrong skills for our future economy? With that, could we reduce unemployment to less than 3 percent with little or no inflation? Or is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

regulations on buybacks as some propose, I’m in favor of boards being much more active in evaluating buybacks, limiting accelerated share buybacks, and changing the accounting treatment of buybacks so that managers are not tempted by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

Audubon movement specifically. "The Audubon movement is interesting in that it is actually a range of different types of organizations who share the mission of protecting birds and the environment through advocacy, education, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

incentives among pool members. This seems to have greatly facilitated the adoption of the MPEG-2 standard. A number of firms have taken the radical step of adopting a code release strategy, where companies release some existing proprietary code and then create a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

leading figures in various fields. This includes socially impactful alumni leaders like Kwame Owusu-Kesse of the Harlem Children Zone and media leaders like Oprah, who openly share their personal and professional lessons with us. I’ve... View Details

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

technology utilized domestically. As a consequence, under a carbon tariff, foreign market share is non-monotonic in emissions price, and global emissions conditionally decrease. Without a carbon tariff, foreign View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar and Annelena Lobb

As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details

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February 2017
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JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated by Clear Channel from the number-one spot that it had held for decades, and it was fighting for second place... View Details

Keywords: JCDecaux; Clear Channel Outdoor; OUTFRONT Media; Lamar Advertising Company; Jean-François Decaux; Jean-Charles Decaux; Outdoor Advertising; Street Furniture; Airports; Billboards; Bicycles; Digital Devices; Digital Marketing; Bidding; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Design; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Business History; Human Resources; Laws and Statutes; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Operations; Distribution; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product; Product Design; Production; Organizational Structure; Property; Public Ownership; Renting or Rental; Problems and Challenges; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Sales; Situation or Environment; Luxury; Strategy; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Mobile Technology; Wireless Technology; Air Transportation; Bicycle Transportation; Rail Transportation; Transportation Networks; Advertising Industry; France; Paris

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

Execution Participant Design new structures and systems to manage the core tensions of strategy execution and meet business goals. I’ve found HBS Online's courses to be immediately applicable to my work, and they’ve made me a more... View Details

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

scientist who can’t wait to get to the classroom to share the experiment. If you adopt this mindset, students will remain intellectually and spiritually in the classroom with you.” The Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

into seven steps: leading change, creating a shared need, shaping a vision, mobilizing commitment, making change last, monitoring progress, and changing systems and structures — and applying it to the... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

Guarantee admission for employees Track employees' progress Contact a representative today to learn more about our pricing structure and how to get started. Contact Us What Makes Our Courses Unique? HBS Online offers a unique and highly... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

authors John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander see branding issues that are shared by many international entities, but also recognize that NGOs have missions and constituencies that add to the complexity of brand management. They... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

portfolios. They examined all companies that held at least one drug patent on the market as of 2003. The researchers focused mainly on small-molecule drugs, not biologics. That’s because of how the compounds are structured chemically. The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

28 Apr 2022
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Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

e-book market. New regulations have shaken up the e-book landscape in China, intensifying competition and prompting writers to work harder, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Feng Zhu. Book contracts that give authors a View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

these frameworks shares that makes them inadequate in explaining the problem? A: The first three frames are rooted in the common tendency to think of gender as an individual characteristic and gender issues as stemming primarily from... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

ultimate control but delegated much of the management of RBS to his star nonfamily EVP, Pedro Parente. Nelson shared leadership of the ownership group with his uncle and then chairman, Jayme Sirotsky (also an exemplary leader). Nelson... View Details

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