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  • September 2020
  • Case

Getaway

By: Ryan W. Buell and Amy Klopfenstein
Since its founding, Getaway’s service offering – tiny, modern cabins in the woods, located within a two-hour drive of major metropolitan areas – had been met with tremendous demand. Overworked and overconnected city dwellers reveled in the opportunity to take a break... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Management; Demand and Consumers; Marketing; Strategy; Accommodations Industry
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Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's?: Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment

By: Netta Barak-Corren and Max Bazerman
Should a Catholic hospital abort a life-threatening pregnancy or let a pregnant woman die? Should a religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that... View Details
Keywords: Normative Conflict; Inaction; Indirectness; Deontology; Utilitarianism; Sunday Effect; Religion; Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Judgments
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  • September 2014
  • Case

Radiometer, 2013

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Radiometer continued to lead the world in blood gas analysis equipment and accessories, selling direct and through distributors to hospital central laboratories, point-of-care locations, and non-hospital medical locations. Founded in 1935 and based in Denmark,... View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Family Business; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Denmark; United States
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    Move Fast & Fix Things

    Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When “move fast and break things” began to define the innovation economy, the mindset fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the... View Details

    • March 2016 (Revised November 2021)
    • Teaching Note

    T-Mobile in 2013: The Un-Carrier

    By: John Beshears and Francesca Gino
    By 2013, the U.S. wireless industry was in the midst of a costly transition. As consumers began to embrace more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data... View Details
    Keywords: Wireless Industry; Telecommunications; Mobile; Service Contracts; Behavioral Economics; Add-on Fees; Shrouded Attributes; Contracts; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • 09 Nov 2023
    • HBS Case

    What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

    not in our division.” Now, the key to breaking the tie between these misconceptions and the stigma lies in rigorous persistence and sequential focus. Do not attempt to solve all of these in one fell swoop. Choose one misconception, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
    • 2022
    • Book

    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well

    By: Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Health Pandemics; Safety
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    • November 2002 (Revised May 2006)
    • Case

    Forest Stewardship Council

    By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
    In just a few years the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) made impressive progress toward its mission of promoting "environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests." By 2001, 25.5 million hectares of forests in... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Corporate Governance; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Strategy
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    Negotiation

    By: Deepak Malhotra
    A large part of my work focuses on negotiation, dealmaking and conflict resolution. My latest book is Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks... View Details
    • March–April 2017
    • Article

    Sink or Swim: The Role of Workplace Context in Shaping Career Advancement and Human-Capital Development

    By: Shinjinee Chattopadhyay and Prithwiraj Choudhury
    We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals. Typically an organization’s decision to deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous... View Details
    Keywords: Workplace Context; Career Advancement; Context; Situation or Environment; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Performance
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    • April 2007
    • Case

    Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video

    By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler
    Leadership: Can I learn it, how do I do it, and how can I use it to advance my career? How is today's world different from the one our teachers entered years ago, and how does that affect me? The two videos on this DVD address these and other questions typically asked... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Style; Knowledge Dissemination; Teaching; Executive Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Style; Education Industry
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    • June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
    • Case

    Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

    By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee
    Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile
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    PLD Module 5

    PLD participants who wish to continue developing as leaders and contribute more significantly to their company's growth. We strongly encourage you to take a six-month break following PLD so that you may apply what you’ve learned in your... View Details
    • 2016
    • Article

    Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage in public and political discourse. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Political Discourse; Public Engagement; Higher Education; Social Media
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      The Progress Principle

      By  Teresa M. Amabile, and Steven J. Kramer.

      Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.

      The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive... View Details

      • 26 Apr 2024
      • HBS Case

      Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

      very intense.” In the same way, managers should be in tune with whether employees are working too hard and should encourage them to take breaks to avoid burning out. 9. Play the long game. Sanders learned important life lessons from... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
      • 17 Aug 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

      that rescue will not happen soon, those who survive move into the phases of adaptation and consolidation. Leach’s description of adaptation is worth quoting in full: “During the period of adaptation there is a slight initial decomposition of a victim's psychology.... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
      • 15 Aug 2023
      • News

      Twelve Alumnae Named to Forbes 50 Over 50

      The third annual 50 Over 50 list, published by Forbes, includes 12 HBS alumnae. Whether self-made entrepreneurs, astronauts, or investors, the recipients are recognized for the variety of ways in which they are all changing the world. Below is a list of those alumnae... View Details
      Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
      • 02 Feb 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 2

        Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation,... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • November 2015
      • Article

      Why Organizations Don't Learn: Our Traditional Obsessions—Success, Taking Action, Fitting In, and Relying on Experts—Undermine Continuous Improvement

      By: F. Gino and B. Staats
      For any enterprise to be competitive, continuous learning and improvement are key—but not always easy to achieve. After a decade of research, the authors have concluded that four biases stand in the way: we focus too heavily on success, are too quick to act, try too... View Details
      Keywords: Organizations; Learning
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