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  • Apr 2015
  • Video

An Economy Doing Half Its Job

Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin discuss the findings of Harvard Business School’s 2013–14 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness. Their report, "An Economy Doing Half Its Job," focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize... View Details
  • February 1996 (Revised November 1996)
  • Case

Viacom, Inc.: Carpe Diem

By: Joseph L. Bower and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Viacom has reached a powerful position in the global entertainment industry through skillful and very bold acquisitions. Now its further expansion is challenged by the moves of Rupert Murdock's News Corp. Different businesses within Viacom have contradictory positions... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entertainment; Global Strategy; Management; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 16 Dec 2014
  • News

H-1B work visa full of uncertainties for immigrants

  • 02 Mar 2011
  • News

A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

  • 17 Jun 2011
  • News

From Mumbai's Dabbawalas to Dharavi, Harvard professors mining India for lessons in management

  • August 2018
  • Case

Performance Improvement Consulting and Hi-R-Me: Making Sales Calls

By: Frank V. Cespedes and David Mattson
This case study focuses on a professional services firm (“Performance Improvement Consulting”) and its sales calls on Hi-R-Me, a potential client. The case is supplemented by videos showing the initial contact call, a follow-up discovery call, and a face-to-face... View Details
Keywords: Sales Calls; Sales; Competency and Skills
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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 17 Nov 2015
  • Webinars: Career

Is Entrepreneurship Right For You?

Are you considering pursuing an entrepreneurial career? Professor Tim Butler will share his latest research on the markers that differentiate entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs. Using the CareerLeader assessment tool, Professor Butler will demonstrate how your... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Sonny Tambe, Wharton

  • Clubs

Salsa Society

  • September 2009
  • Module Note

Leading Teams Note

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer
This note, which describes the architecture and processes that characterize effective teams, begins by detailing the steps involved in designing a team, from diagnosing the complexity, interdependence, and objectives of the task to harnessing the key resources teams... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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  • August 2016
  • Supplement

CEO Succession at Cisco (C): Chuck Robbins' First 100 Days

By: Boris Groysberg, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Annelena Lobb
Supplements the (A) case (417-031). This case supplement describes new CEO Chuck Robbins’ earliest days after being announced as Cisco’s new chief executive. During this time, Robbins focused on building a leadership team featuring people with complementary skills... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Technology Industry
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  • 09 Jun 2021
  • News

When the West Works from Home

  • 21 Jun 2017
  • News

What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

    CSML: Leading Schools

    School leaders are responsible for setting the vision and goals and aligning strategy and resources to drive improvement in their schools, while navigating an increasingly challenging school environment. Leading Schools is designed to equip school leaders with the... View Details

      William R. Kerr

      William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
      • 21 Mar 2016
      • Blog Post

      MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

      honing different and yet comparably important skills for business and policy global leaders.  Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, I was probably predisposed to develop passions contiguous to the phenomenon of development, which arguably... View Details
      • December 1999
      • Case

      Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B): Nurturing Entrepreneurs and Change Agents

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
      Thirty-one "change agents" at Sun Microsystems, Inc. told the story of their most recent significant change project: its origins and goals, the project team, the chronology of the work, the challenges, results, and lessons learned. Their stories answer two questions:... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Projects; Problems and Challenges; Outcome or Result; Learning; Experience and Expertise; Independent Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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      • 02 Sep 2013
      • News

      Should MBAs Learn to Code?

      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate

      Keywords: by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson
      • TeachingInterests

      Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in China and beyond, businesses need exceptional leaders—forward-thinking executives who are... View Details