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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Properly considered, this final role of general management leads to our third module: Operating the Business Model . For many of you, your careers will evolve in the setting of small, entrepreneurial firms. More than half of HBS graduates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery By: Burt, Bryan M., Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki, and John G. Byrne Abstract—We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2008
- Supplement
Tribune Company, 2007 (CW)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
This case describes the proposed acquisition of Tribune Company by Sam Zell in 2007. Tribune Company is one of the largest newspapers and broadcasting companies in the United States. Zell's proposed acquisition is unusual in several respects. It is two-tiered, employs... View Details
- September 2023
- Supplement
Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs’ Growth (B)
By: Mark Egan
As 2017 was drawing to a close, birddogs’ founder and CEO, Peter Baldwin, was working with his CFO Jack Sullivan to prepare for 2018. Their task at hand? To predict the demand for their product in the coming season, determine the appropriate investments in working... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Expansion; Production; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Egan, Mark. "Accelerating with Caution: Forecasting and Managing birddogs’ Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 224-024, September 2023.
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
detailing the scope of Walmart’s operations and current strategies in the case “Walmart’s Workforce of the Future.” Published in April, it offers an overview of the considerable investments the retail giant is making in its e-commerce... View Details
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Student Research - Doctoral
helpful, but may also be a challenge, because treating every person in the group is often infeasible. One... February 2025 Article JAMA Health Forum Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover By: Victoria... View Details
- 2015
- Case
Fine Harvest Restaurant Group (cases A and B)
By: Clara (Xiaoling) Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim A. Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and organizations operate in society. It then highlights what it takes to implement societal change. This includes a wide variety of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
create human capital. For these companies, the cost of rehiring and restoring operations after a layoff would be greater than the cost of maintaining the status quo during an economic downturn. Amazon, for instance, fared well by having... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Spir-It, Inc. (B): Managing People
When Jack Sindler founded Spir-it, Inc. in 1934, he was the company's sole employee. By 1999, Sindler's firm more than survived its first 55 years. Employment was up to nearly 200, with facilities in two states and work done in three shifts. The product line--which had... View Details
Keywords: Growth Management; Production; Business Growth and Maturation; Interpersonal Communication; Logistics; Human Resources; Diversity Characteristics; Manufacturing Industry
Spear, Steven J. "Spir-It, Inc. (B): Managing People." Harvard Business School Case 601-091, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
strategic, financial, and operational objectives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51110 May 2016 Oncology How the Affordable Care Act Has Affected Cancer Care in the United States: Has Value for Cancer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
there is not more equity?” Voluntary licensing unlocks overlooked, less-understood markets Gilead’s tiered model combined branded product sales at prices based on disease burden and per capita income of 140 low- and middle-income... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Everest, several climbers, including two of the world's most experienced professionals, died in part because junior team members didn't speak up when their expert leaders ignored their own core operating principles surrounding safety. In... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
weather that depressed sales of natural gas and home heating oil. As you know, this is also the first quarter we are operating with the Balanced Scorecard, so I can see performance across a broader set of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 2024
- Working Paper
Patent Hunters
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Katie Moon and Paula Suh
Analyzing millions of patents granted by the USPTO between 1976 and 2020, we find a pattern where specific patents only rise to prominence after considerable time has passed. Amongst these late-blooming influential patents, we show that there are key players (patent... View Details
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, Katie Moon, and Paula Suh. "Patent Hunters." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32965, September 2024.
- February 2014 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams
By: Tatiana Sandino
Indian cell phone retailer Go Mobile had implemented high-powered incentives to motivate its store employees to behave as owners and provide exceptional service. As the company scaled up, it faced multiple challenges in building a layer of district managers that were... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Telecommunications Industry; India
Sandino, Tatiana. "Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams." Harvard Business School Case 114-034, February 2014. (Revised January 2024.)
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Pam Chan
Her role: advertising sales for Southeast Asia. "All companies say they want to be transformed digitally," Pam observes, "but most are struggling. It makes sense to start with digital advertising and marketing to meet... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Theory O change, Scott Paper operated in a highly competitive, cyclical, capital-intensive global industry. Like Champion International, it operated in two different segments of the paper industry and had... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria