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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
- 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
- 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
Lee, Deishin. "Turning Waste into By-Product." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 1 (Winter 2011).
- 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
- 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
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 15: Using the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-115, December 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
- 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
Dolan, Robert J., and Ayelet Israeli. "Angie's List: Ratings Pioneer Turns 20." Harvard Business School Case 517-016, September 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- 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
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Melissa Dailey. "Pioneer Hi-Bred: Turning Seeds Into Factories." Harvard Business School Case 399-095, December 1998.
- March 1992 (Revised March 1996)
- Background Note
Turning Data into Dollars: Information Technology Puts Power in Your Order Management Cycle
Sviokla, John J. "Turning Data into Dollars: Information Technology Puts Power in Your Order Management Cycle." Harvard Business School Background Note 192-110, March 1992. (Revised March 1996.)
- 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
- 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
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
Lassiter: The answer is usually by recruiting the right people and partners around the core idea. Turning high-potential ventures into high-performance ventures is always an elegant combination of know what,... View Details
- Teaching Interest
The Entrepreneurial Manager
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
- 2024
- Working Paper
Managing Remote Work Quality: Evidence from Auditing Management Systems Standards
By: Ashley Palmarozzo and Michael W. Toffel
Remote work has become more common, providing operational flexibility and productivity
benefits, but questions remain about whether and how it affects work quality. We investigate the
quality effects of remote work in a context in which remote work separates workers... View Details
Keywords: Audit; Auditing; Remote Work; Compliance; Assessment; Environment; Management Systems; Quality Management; Quality Management System; Quality; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Environmental Management; Safety
Palmarozzo, Ashley, and Michael W. Toffel. "Managing Remote Work Quality: Evidence from Auditing Management Systems Standards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-002, July 2023. (Revised August 2024.)
- 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
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Has Capitalism Reached A Turning Point?
- 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
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
Then I saw a herd of 40 or 50 zebra grazing under some acacia trees. I knew I was pushing it, but I circled around until I was under the umbrella of trees too. When they’re alarmed, zebras actually bark, which is what the herd leader did... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News