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Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
The Founder's Dilemmas
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
Amgen Inc.'s Epogen--Commercializing the First Biotech Blockbuster DrugBy: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis A. Yao
Amgen Inc.'s Epogen was the first biotech blockbuster drug. Epogen helped prevent anemia, a condition that leads to severe fatigue, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and even death. At the time, the market for Epogen, which included dialysis patients and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Strategic Planning; Competition; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis A. Yao. "Amgen Inc.'s Epogen--Commercializing the First Biotech Blockbuster Drug." Harvard Business School Case 706-454, December 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
When the Journey—And Not Just the Destination—Matters: How Internationalization Shapes Entrepreneurial ExperimentationBy: Nataliya Langburd Wright and Laura Huang
Internationalization—gaining exposure to cross-border markets—is often the result of an entrepreneur’s experimentation and strategy around their core business. Scholars have shown how entrepreneurs develop products or services, and after achieving some traction, turn... View Details
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or DieSometimes when John R. Wells, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, meets a senior manager from a successful company, he likes to ask the provocative question, "Is your company already dead?" In his more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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About - Business Historyrhythm of history when the cake of custom must be broke, when that disruptive, innovating energy is socially advantageous and must be given freer opportunity.” The impact
Go Mobile: The Phirbol FranchiseBy: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
To grow Phirbol, a telecom retail franchise chain in Delhi, India's underdeveloped markets, its founders were exploring ways to offer more value to the franchisees. In mid-2009, the Phirbol franchise was comprised of some 150 franchisees that had converted their small... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Management; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Value Creation; Telecommunications Industry; Delhi
Lal, Rajiv, and Natalie Kindred. "Go Mobile: The Phirbol Franchise." Harvard Business School Case 510-020, February 2010.
Managing Multiple Identities at WorkPeoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card InitiativeBy: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Leading Change; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Banking Industry; Switzerland
Tushman, Michael L., Sebastian Raisch, and Christian Welling. "GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 410-052, October 2009. (Revised December 2010.)
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You LaughWe all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
Advice on AdviceIn business, good advice is priceless. Managers who are anxious and confused when confronted with corporate challenges can find that a piece of sound advice from a colleague can instill a sense of calm and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
Can Entrepreneurs and Governments Team Up to Solve Big Problems?Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can LeadQ. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details
Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doingbeyond the defense realm. The PM 101 class helped me conquer my imposter syndrome by showing me that my Marine Corps experience actually had a direct translation to product management, especially as I reflected on my time developing web... View Details
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizationsand Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life is heaven, or as near heaven... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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