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Cait Haught

case method. I visited two to three other business schools, and the classroom experience at HBS ranked thousands of times better. The professors are really good teachers who are passionate about their students. The case method brings... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 21 Aug 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

the class toward her personal passion, precision medicine. “Health care is rife with examples like these—and such applications of big data will only expand over the coming years. I spend a lot of time thinking about questions like, How... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

were by no means evident to the pioneers of academic business education—and, as we suggest, they remain by no means evident today. During the time that the first business schools were being constituted, at the beginning of the twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

recalled, "The general provides the two things that a young scientific organization most needs–enthusiasm and appreciation. Like all the others, I started out with a hatful of ideas and a lot of long-range plans. In a couple of years, I got bogged down in detail.... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2020
  • Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

responsibility to engage everyone and to try to read every student and find the key to unlock how that person learns. I want to figure out how I can support them in the learning process. Lagace: What demands does it place on you? DeLong: I need to manage in real View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 28 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

Monitor Group, I moved on to Corporate Strategy at PepsiCo to pursue my interest in consumer goods.  I loved the job.  I worked with inspiring, intelligent people on big issues driving the company.  The job also afforded me time to spend... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

support they need. For example, a team member may wish to have flexibility in their work schedules when school starts and ends to get their children settled. The ability to schedule meetings around those times can enable them to do their... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

was teaching roughly 8-12 classes a week, and I loved it! I know I surprised a few co-workers the first time they saw me teaching a class: “Did you quit the firm? No? You’re nuts. Great class!” I fully admit that doing both at the same... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

value of their lifetime revenue streams, can provide a strong incentive for continued product and service excellence. At the same time that former manufacturing enterprises are adopting the subscription model, it appears that media and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

period of time Annual Quota 5,400 for Singaporeans 1,400 for Chileans Other Information Chileans and Singaporeans are not restricted solely to the H-1B1 category and may apply for the traditional H-1B visa status, or any other status for... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

leadership talent with the attitude, training, and willingness to devote the time to this difficult task of engagement, which can have a significant impact on performance. Too much emphasis on “making the numbers” to the exclusion of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

Financial incentives—the more costly approach—didn’t inspire lasting change, while the more successful intervention didn’t cost anything more than employees’ time to participate in meetings. “If you talk to many managers, they would say... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • November 2019
  • Case

Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
In May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was having a hard time... View Details
Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Management; Financial Condition; Problems and Challenges; Communication; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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  • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
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  • March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
  • Case

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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  • February 2018 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Jaguar Capital S.A.S., Take the Money and Run?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In January 2014, Tomas Uribe and Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios of Jaguar Capital S.A.S. (Jaguar or Jaguar Capital), were considering an offer from White Stone, the world’s largest private equity real estate investor. Jaguar Capital needed capital to fund its investment thesis,... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; Investing; Private Equity Financing; Deal Structuring; Emerging Market; Emerging Economies; Emerging Market Finance; International Entrepreneurship; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Agreements and Arrangements; Emerging Markets; Real Estate Industry; Retail Industry; Financial Services Industry; Colombia; Latin America; United States
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  • Article

Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments

By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff and Sara J. Singer
How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementing improvement efforts in order to identify mechanisms that enable implementation despite... View Details
Keywords: Organization And Management Theory; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Integration; Cooperation
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince
In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking
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