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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
expected. Developing an organization that supports a new strategy of application support for their customer base requires a change in culture and an evolving leadership challenge for the business. The most immediate challenge is to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
be impacted by the effects of climate change, so it is critical to have people in many areas who want to find solutions and drive forward the climate agenda. Every role will need to take climate action and every organization will need intelligent people to bring fresh... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
issues these organizations are trying to solve are large, complex problems that can't be addressed by any single entity. Furthermore, nonprofits seek to create social value, not just organizational value; have dispersed governance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
approaches to address the increasing demand from society for a deeper understanding of what causes even good people to cross ethical boundaries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-054.pdf Management Practices Across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate View Details
- Web
Judges - Alumni
Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce, FemTech, Lifestyles of Health and... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at HBS and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
opportunities. For students who come from the United States or Europe, these cases expose them to something new and test their understanding of business issues in a different context. ” Victoria lvashina Lovett-Learned Professor of... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' decision... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a chain of around 70 stores located in over 20 states by 2013. Tindell believed TCS's employee-first culture and the seven Foundation Principles, which guided the company, were what differentiated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
your prospects for developing innovative products and services. Rosabeth Moss Kanter How Do You Create a Culture of Innovation? Have you noticed the courage buried in the word encourage? To create a culture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
the School's culture and organization. Milestones in the following months include announcing the appointment of Terrill Drake as the School's first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, increasing the number of Black case protagonists in... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
strategic marketing for Memphis-based FedEx, attributes these failures not to the technology per se, but to a "lack of recognition of the degree to which [IT implementation] requires process change, cultural change, and brute-force... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
than someone who can code a fresh UI. If performance issues are causing churn, then hire a performance engineer, someone who knows how to diagnose and fix performance issues. Just like you are building a product to solve for the job to be... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
hope that quality would improve. And we found that, in most cases, these were false starts.” Managers saw the importance of quality but did not have the insight that starting a training program without first addressing other serious View Details
- Web
The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About
Montreal Children’s Hospital and faculty member at the Université de Montréal, was a key player in the rise of Telemedia, and is credited with setting up a unique human resources culture within the company. Armed with the lessons of their... View Details
- June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems
By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details
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Nagle, Frank, Elizabeth J. Altman, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 722-363, June 2022. (Revised August 2023.)