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    Brian L. Trelstad

     

    Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry
    • April 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird Back to Health (Abridged)

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Jonathan Cohen
    Sesame Workshop was in the middle of a turnaround in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This Teaching Note helps instructors teach the abridged and full-length versions of... View Details
    Keywords: Turnaround; NGO; Non-profit; Organization Alignment; Managing Change; Philanthropy; Media; Television; Reorganization; Talent; Innovation; Risk Aversion; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Restructuring; Identity; Transformation; Education Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal control systems used to manage risk. Boundary systems—linked to clear, enforceable sanctions—are essential whenever demanding performance goals are set and... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Boundary Systems; Innovation; Internal Controls; Fraud; Human Behavior; Staff Experts; Strategy; Risk Management; Behavior; Governance Controls; Management Practices and Processes; Boundaries; Employees; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention
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      David Shin

      David Shin is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research explores how technological innovation shapes relationships at work, particularly as it... View Details
      • August 2011 (Revised September 2011)
      • Case

      Wii Encore?

      By: Andrei Hagiu
      Nintendo faced huge difficulties in July 2011. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox had caught up with the innovative motion-sensing controllers of the original Wii. And the new Nintendo 3DS handheld console had experienced a very disappointing start. Moreover,... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Video Game Industry
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      • December 2016 (Revised May 2018)
      • Module Note

      Strategy Execution Module 15: Using the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy

      By: Robert Simons
      This module reading pulls together key concepts and techniques from the Strategy Execution series into an integrated model—the levers of control. The four levers are: (1) belief systems, (2) boundary systems, (3) diagnostic control systems, and (4) interactive control... View Details
      Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Levers Of Control; Balancing Innovation And Control; Managing Growing Businesses; Turn Around Management; Human Behavior; Organizational Life Cycle; Strategy; Management Systems; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Behavior
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      • 18 Jun 2011
      • News

      Big Blue at 100: Still the standard for American companies

      • Fall 2012
      • Article

      Enacting Our Field

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim
      This keynote address, delivered to the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council at its 25-year "benchmark" conference, examines the pedagogical challenges facing the field of nonprofit management in American higher education. It interrogates four binary distinctions commonly... View Details
      Keywords: Conferences; Higher Education; Teaching; Social Issues; Innovation and Invention; Programs; Management; Nonprofit Organizations
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      • May 2014
      • Teaching Note

      Gunfire at Sea (multi-media case)

      By: Michael Tushman
      This short video illustrates the challenges of leading innovation and change. This classic case (one of the oldest in the HBS system) retains its timeliness. The case describes how Lt. Sims develops a new form of gunfire at sea—continuous aim gunfire. While 3,000% more... View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; National Security; Innovation Leadership; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      • October 2018 (Revised February 2018)
      • Case

      Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund

      By: Tom Nicholas, Ramana Nanda and Benjamin N. Roth
      In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant shock to the worldwide market for venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy
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      • 22 May 2024
      • HBS Case

      Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

      might also like many other things that may or may not be like it.” Unlike other systems that use a social graph—who you follow—as a proxy for an interest graph—what you like, TikTok’s system goes directly to an interest graph. The content... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
      • June 2023
      • Teaching Note

      Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: The Megafarms of CP Group

      By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-150. The case introduces students to an innovative new agricultural venture on the outskirts of Beijing. It can be used as a platform to discuss broader issues of agricultural policy reform and regional disparities in social and... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Policy; Economic Growth; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Thailand
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      • 19 May 2016
      • News

      Helping baby boomers find a meaningful second act

        Archie L. Jones

        Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

        • 14 Nov 2017
        • News

        Students help groups to pursue climate action

        • November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
        • Case

        New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise

        By: Robert S. Kaplan
        New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the... View Details
        Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Nonprofit Organizations; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Service Industry
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        • 10 Jan 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

        solutions in a new Stanford Social Innovation Review article, The Problem of Social Benefit. “We talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers.” A virtuous cycle of... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • February 2016
        • Teaching Note

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge

        By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
        Building on his successes as a politician and preacher in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Rev. Raymond Jetson sought to empower Baton Rouge citizens to innovate solutions for their community challenges. After stepping down as the head of the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps,... View Details
        Keywords: Leadership; Health ＆ Wellness; Communities; Community Impact; Farm; Agriculture; Leading Change; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Community Relations; Louisiana
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        • May 2016 (Revised November 2018)
        • Supplement

        Moleskine (B)

        By: Ryan Raffaelli, Raffaella Sadun and Kathy Qu
        This case discusses the decisions and outcomes of CEO Arrigo Berni and founder Maria Sebregondi that the Moleskine (A) case laid out. View Details
        Keywords: Creative Industries; Brand Building; Digital Innovation; Digital Services And Strategy; Process Improvement; Organization Change And Adaptation; Culture; Identity Construction; Growth and Development Strategy; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Creativity; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry
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        • 29 Jan 2021
        • Op-Ed

        How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

        central premise of the diffusion of innovations framework is that customer or patient segments that adopt early will influence later adopters. Innovators will influence early adopters, who then influence the... View Details
        Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim