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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components within the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Method by David Garvin October 2003 Harvard Magazine Making the Case by David Garvin Background Notes 1995, rev. 1996 Choreographing a Case Class by V. Kasturi Rangan Compares four different approaches to case teaching: lecturing,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
“malicious envy” in their peers. ” we’re trying to chip away at the resentment that comes with envy and move people toward admiration instead.” Malicious envy is a destructive emotion that makes people feel inferior by comparison, even to the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Era Jain
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was seeking challenges that would help me grow across dimensions beyond software engineering. After seeing my sister go through her Founder journey, I was inspired to start my own... View Details
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
every leader’s strong suit, then bring someone in who is. I’ve seen everyone from executive assistants to HR leaders to program managers facilitate meetings, keeping the group on topic, on time, and to pay attention to the room. I don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
singer of U2, to announce a partnership to channel proceeds from holiday beverage sales to the Global Fund in support of AIDS relief programs in Africa. The New Orleans conference was a turning point for... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
for improvement in some management techniques, but these leaders are programmed to manage things. In fact, too much--to the point where they focus so much effort on management that their companies tend to be... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 01 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows
the Goldsmith Fellowship program to promote student achievement by facilitating greater coordination among cross-sector partners, such as school districts, government agencies, and employers.” Raghav Srinivasan. Raghav brings View Details
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
donors in this study: some 40,000 recipients of a donation request letter, which asked them to give $20, $50, or $100 toward a new project. The letter recipients were divided into four groups. In the “control” group, recipients simply... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
time, historians have reconceptualized commodification, sale, and ownership, recasting the market as a place of colliding human ambitions, fantasies of wealth, modes of resistance, acts of brutality, tenderness, and heroism. Slavery’s relocation into capitalism is only... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
stay-at-home mompreneurs, the work got done in whatever bits of time she could steal from the day. When her daughter, Della, enrolled in a dance class in Harlem that year, Dixon would drive her Jetta wagon with “WOKE” plates and SiriusXM radio up and down the FDR View Details
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
to learn more. I would recommend this to any leader wanting to further their skill set or leadership skills. Suzanne Linton CLIMB Participant Experienced Leaders have four or more years of managerial experience and seven-plus years of... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Early College Dublin, NC Subjects: US Government, US History, American History 2 MA Holly Casaubon Medford High School Medford, MA OR Susan Casey Eagle Point High School Eagle Point, OR MI Dave Cashen Grandville High School Grandville, MI... View Details
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Generative AI - Alumni
the bullet.” “I am a Harvard Business School alum creating a resume. Please generate 10 different resume bullets as it is applicable to being a Program Manager. Each bullet should be no longer than 2 lines. Each version should have a... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the platform owner. We present four main results. First, the successful development of an open... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care
Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Full-time and part-time master's students from accredited Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Information Systems, Master of Public Health, Master of Business Administration program, or other similar master’s View Details
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Team - Case Method Project
as the creation of the Case Method Project at Harvard Business School in 2015 and, subsequently, the Case Method Institute for Education and Democracy in 2020. Joanna Beinhorn Joanna Beinhorn is the program coordinator for the Case Method... View Details
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
“Problems happen in family management when there are three or four brothers. All brothers may not be of equal capability and commitment.” Successful family-owned enterprises build mechanisms that over time recognize the value that each... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne