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  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The MBA Turns 100

Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Turning Point: Network Effects

together people from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors to open up the dialogue around mental illness and help build awareness of the five indicators of emotional suffering: change in personality, agitation, withdrawal, decline in... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Turning Point: Living History

focus on building a better future in a newly independent country. There was also a great deal of trauma around the violence that people had witnessed and didn’t want to revisit. My father didn’t even know what his mother and her sister... View Details
Keywords: museums; India; nonprofits; career paths; leadership; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • Article

Turning Waste into By-Product

By: Deishin Lee
This paper studies how a firm can create and capture value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced.... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Opportunities; Market Participation; Framework; Profit; Competition; Wastes and Waste Processing; Product; Business Processes
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  • April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?

By: David A. Garvin, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Liz Kind
Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management attributes,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Business Policy; General Management; Human Resource Management; Management; Leadership; Human Resources
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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • News

Building Great Schools around Great Teachers

Tony Klemmer Photo courtesy of NAATE Plans for a second career took an abrupt turn in just one day for Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) when, after a quarter century of successful startup launches, he left the business world to pursue personal... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • December 1998
  • Case

Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
The agricultural sector is among the preeminent information technology users in our economy," exclaimed an August 1998 Forbes ASAP survey of the U.S. economy's best and worst users of information technology (IT). The survey designated Pioneer Hi-Bred International,... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Management; Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Iowa
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  • March 1992 (Revised March 1996)
  • Background Note

Turning Data into Dollars: Information Technology Puts Power in Your Order Management Cycle

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  • July 2013
  • Teaching Note

Google's Project Oxygen: Do Managers Matter?

By: David A. Garvin
Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year research project that ultimately led to a comprehensive program, built around eight key management attributes,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Business Policy; General Management; Human Resource Management; Management; Leadership; Human Resources
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  • 27 Jan 2021
  • News

Reorienting Work and Learning Around Skills Building

  • January 8, 2025
  • Article

Why Retailers Are Turning to Third-Party Marketplaces

By: Antonio Moreno
Some traditional retailers—including Walmart, Target, and Best Buy—are adopting third-party marketplaces, which connect customers with external sellers and thereby offer customers a much broader selection. Many other traditional retailers are considering whether to... View Details
Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels; Customer Focus and Relationships; Cost vs Benefits; Retail Industry
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  • TeachingInterests

The Entrepreneurial Manager

By: Martin A. Sinozich

This course addresses the issues faced by managers who wish to turn opportunity into viable organizations that create value, and empowers students to develop their own approaches, guidelines, and skills for being entrepreneurial managers.

The course teaches... View Details

  • September 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Angie's List: Ratings Pioneer Turns 20

By: Robert J. Dolan and Ayelet Israeli
In 1995, before people “googled” or “yelped,” Angela Hicks (HBS, 2000) was establishing her Angie’s List as a pioneer in the accumulation and dissemination of consumer rating information. Hicks focused on the home repair and maintenance market and, as she put it,... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Services; Product Line Management; Growth; Conjoint Analysis; Market Research; Freemium; Growth Strategy; Two Sided Markets; Ecommerce; Platform; Platform Business; Platform Businesses; Platform Strategy; Platforms; Platforms And Ecosystems; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Price; Strategy; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Service Industry; United States
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  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

Tension Is Rising Around Remote Work

  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Turning Point: On the Line

the larger entertainment landscape remains unsettled. The next contract negotiation comes in 2026, and nobody wants another strike. I’ve been blessed to live the creative life I’d dreamt about and make a career out of it. So if necessary—and if parking View Details
Keywords: labor strike; television; media; unions
  • 26 Sep 2014
  • News

Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point?

  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • News

Ever wonder why managers don't think deeply? It turns out, it's not their fault

  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Turning Point: Getting to Giving

was also very practical: After I graduated, my husband and I would be living on one salary while he went to business school. When he graduated, we decided to continue to manage our money as if only one of us was working. I didn’t realize... View Details
Keywords: Amalya “Ami” Campbell (MBA 1997); Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance