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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

expect a bifurcation of the workforce in the near future: individuals who embrace AI to enhance their productivity, potentially yielding substantial gains, and those who resist AI View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

into consideration the intense emotions of parents and children. So Dietz and his team embarked on a patient-centered redesign by attempting to view the diagnostic procedure... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

Company, where he put together the collaborative team that founded Fairchild Semiconductor. After moving to California in 1961, Rock and investor Tommy Davis formed Davis & Rock, which posted an... View Details

12 Apr 2022
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The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

understanding of the issues they intend to address. Fundamentally, I believe in people and their ability to impact their community if given the adequate resources. At DIH, a major objective has been to empower View Details

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Portrait Project

Alex Angelopoulos

hubs felt out of reach. A small startup of five was the antidote to my distress. Huddled around a laptop in a cramped, buzzing co-working space in Athens, our team competed with Goliaths, fueled only by our determination, creativity,... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

$0.80) for processing customer orders, $35.20 (44 by $0.80) for handling inquiries, and $40 (50 by $0.80) for performing credit checks. Once you have calculated these standard rates, you can apply them in real time to assign costs to... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

22 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Dr. Milt McColl, MD, Gauss Surgical, CEO

October 2014
Case

Mothercare, 2014

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In early 2014, Mothercare was the UK's leading retailer of mother-and-baby products. In fiscal 2013, it generated £341 million in revenues from its 255 UK stores and £128 million online, and was more than three times the size of its next biggest competitor, Mama and... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Turnaround; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Retail Industry; United Kingdom

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20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

Sports teams are not far behind. In fact, almost everyone who is challenged by a friend, coworker, or family member joins in. If ice buckets can help fund research to shed light on a terrible disease, such as ALS, more power to them,... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

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Research Resources - Doctoral

sources, designing your study, deciding which statistical methods to employ, interpreting results, and writing a statistical program. Behavioral Research Services Harvard Business School’s Behavioral Research Services View Details

June 2020 (Revised April 2022)
Case

AFC Ajax

By: Anita Elberse

In July 2019, AFC Ajax’s chief executive officer Edwin van der Sar finalized one of the biggest transfers in soccer—that of Matthijs de Ligt, only 19 years old but already one of the sports world’s brightest stars—from AFC Ajax to Italian powerhouse Juventus FC for a... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Talent and Talent Management; Sports; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Sports Industry; Europe

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14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

financial strength, increasing annual revenues to $12 billion while reducing costs. A $3.6 billion fundraising campaign further strengthened its balance sheet. With the help of a skilled team of physician leaders View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

reported that, “ my entire team has reported registering for virtual conferences but not really feeling they could fully set aside time to engage fully as they would if they traveled to a conference.” William Cottringer added, “I have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

its emphasis on individual heroes, cycling is very much a team sport, one where the team supports the leader and works for his success. Riders... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

11 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart

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Search Funds

industry description, annual revenues, number of employees, and year established. Each annual file consists of a snapshot of InfoGroup's data as of the last day of each year, creating a time series of data. Access via WRDS platform -... View Details

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

students and to consider the perspectives and expectations specific individuals are likely to bring to the course. Prior to each class session, instructors review student... View Details

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

remotely. But in general, rather than monitoring every move employees make, companies should establish work goals and measure individual productivity based on output, he says. “If you’re on a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

IBM Corporation Turnaround

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan

Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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