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The Founder's Dilemmas
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?sustainable without a framework of cultural values and rules." Drew Williamson pictured the relationship as "a virtuous circle that can break at any of the three points. It starts with a happy,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
From Chalkboards to ChatbotsArtwork/animation by Greg Meeson/hitandrunmedia.com; shutterstock.com Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, becoming an integral part of how we live, work, and interact. It is therefore critical for current and... View Details
Executive Education - EntrepreneurshipExecutive Education Given the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship within organizations, our programs are designed to help seasoned executives transform their thinking and vision in a dynamic global... View Details
Carbon EngineeringBy: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra
Dr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government Legislation; Technological Innovation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Risk and Uncertainty; Research and Development; Transportation; Information Infrastructure; Energy; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry; Technology Industry; Canada; United States; China; India
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Sid Misra. "Carbon Engineering." Harvard Business School Case 814-040, October 2013. (Revised November 2016.)
Founder - EntrepreneurshipPresident’s Innovation Challenge Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) Build Entrepreneurship and Tech Skills: Tech Club & CAML club workshops/seminars Rock Center and i-lab workshops HBS Course notes on the Harvard Business Publishing... View Details
Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build... View Details
Keywords: Values; Agile; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California
Neeley, Tsedal, Paul Leonardi, and Michael Norris. "Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)." Harvard Business School Case 419-066, June 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?Maxweles, who asked, "Was Steve Jobs possibly a 'brilliant jerk'? Could innovation be stifled by simply eliminating the uncomfortable individuals?" Lawrence Nwaru added, "We are all brilliant jerks in one form or the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And CompetitivenessStrategy by Michael E. Porter 12 may 2015 Shared Value and Strategy (Video) by Michael E. Porter More Presentations Strategy 12 may 2015 Shared Value and Strategy by Michael E. Porter 19 Jun 2013 Strategy and Shared Value: Innovation and... View Details
Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical EducationBy: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
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Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
Holtzman, Jessica N., Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert, and Jennifer Kasper. "Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education." Academic Medicine 95, no. 5 (May 2020): 740–743.
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Masterpiece for the Masses: The First Art Exchange ARTEXBy: Lauren Cohen, Anastasiya Siroochenko (Siro) and Sophia Pan
Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi, CEO of ARTEX, aspired to marry the world of art and finance. Hoping to promote transparent, fractionalized ownership of renowned artwork, the founder had spent years contemplating the birth of an art stock market. This exchange would allow... View Details
Keywords: Trading; Art Market; Art Fair; Tokenization; Democratization; Exchange Traded Fund; Price Monitoring; Trends And Opportunities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Arts; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Investment Return; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Trends; Stocks; Assets; Diversification; Trade; Financial Services Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Paris; France
Cohen, Lauren, Anastasiya Siroochenko (Siro), and Sophia Pan. "Masterpiece for the Masses: The First Art Exchange ARTEX." Harvard Business School Case 224-086, March 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
Being the Bossshaking your head, so I have to ask, actively, if everything is OK. Q: What are you working on next? A: My next book is on leadership for innovation—on what kind of leadership is most appropriate if sustained breakthrough
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
Batten Hall | Aboutcurriculum. On the first floor is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab). Launched in November 2011, the i-lab serves as a resource for students from across Harvard University interested in exploring entrepreneurship and innovation, bringing... View Details
Learning OrganizationsDavid A. Garvin is studying how companies pursue improvement and change through efforts to stimulate organizational learning. He has found the following activities to be common in learning organizations: intelligence gathering; experimentation; learning from... View Details
StravaBy: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra
Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Cycling; Biking; Running; Sports; Technology; Mobile App; Mobile; GPS; Motivation; Behavioral Science; Founders; Term Sheet; Investment; Terms; Silicon Valley; Lifestyle; Strava; Financing; Fundraising; Angel; Valuation; Growth; Forecast; Business Startups; Business Plan; Trends; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Institutional Investing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Management Succession; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Timing; Bicycle Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Web Services Industry; California; New England
Colgate-Palmolive Co.: The Precision ToothbrushBy: John A. Quelch
Colgate-Palmolive Co. is considering how to position its new technological toothbrush, Precision. The case explores issues concerned with new product launches and requires students to do profitability analyses of different positioning alternatives. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Positioning; Product Launch; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Colgate-Palmolive Co.: The Precision Toothbrush." Harvard Business School Case 593-064, April 1993. (Revised April 2006.)
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategyspend years burning through venture capital while they figured out their strategy. These are the days of the lean startup. "Most startups fail not because they can't build the product they set out to build, but because they build the... View Details
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