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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • April, 2023
    • Article

    Reducing Information Barriers to Solar Adoption: Experimental Evidence from India

    By: Meera Mahadevan, Robyn C. Meeks and Takashi Yamano
    Off-grid solar technologies hold promise for unelectrified and low-quality electricity settings; however, their adoption remains low. Important barriers to adoption, such as incomplete information remain relatively unexplored in developing countries. In collaboration... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Renewable Energy; Knowledge Sharing; Developing Countries and Economies; India
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    • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
    • Case

    Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

    By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
    In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
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    • September 2020
    • Case

    Enabling Teamwork at the Cleveland Clinic

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey
    This case examines efforts to foster teamwork within and across work units in the Cleveland Clinic, a large, distributed healthcare delivery organization. With a long history of valuing teamwork since its founding in 1921, the Clinic had taken dramatic steps to further... View Details
    Keywords: Teamwork; Teaming; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Health Industry; United States
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      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

      Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry
      • February 2016
      • Article

      Labor Unemployment Insurance and Earnings Management

      By: Yiwei Dou, Mozaffar N. Khan and Youli Zou
      There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that firms appear to manage long-run earnings upward in... View Details
      Keywords: Earnings Management; Employment; Insurance; Financial Reporting
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      • February 2015
      • Case

      TouchTunes and the Connected Digital Jukebox Platform

      By: Alan MacCormack and Noah Fisher
      The case describes innovation and new product development at TouchTunes, the leader in the Digital Jukebox market. In March 2013, after releasing its innovative "Virtuo" jukebox developed in collaboration with frog design, TouchTunes was at a crossroads. Having... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Design; R＆D; Outsourcing; Platform Strategy; Digital Media; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Music Industry
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      • November 2012 (Revised August 2014)
      • Case

      Cisco in 2012: Reorganizing for Efficiency and Flexibility

      By: Ranjay Gulati, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Luciana Silvestri
      In 2012, Cisco was under intense pressure to show results: growth in its core business was decelerating and a number of exploratory ventures and acquisitions had not proven as profitable as expected. CEO John Chambers vowed to restore the company's health in a way that... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Emerging Markets; Information Technology Industry
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      • 27 Sep 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

      considered one of the last taboos,” says Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever. “Our students have been asking for it because they see very clearly that they will be in positions of global leadership where they will have to deal with it.” To... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
      • 14 Jan 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: January 14

      that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

      By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore
      Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program... View Details
      Keywords: Gender Norms; Economics; Gender; Employment; Income; Societal Protocols; India
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      To Drive Efforts...Don't Tiptoe Around Your Legal Risk

      By: Edward Chang and Bonnie Levine
      Many Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are scuttled because DEI leaders and legal teams feel themselves to be at odds over questions of acceptable risk. DEI leaders see lawyers as guardians of the status quo, whereas legal experts, trained to... View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Risk Management; Legal Liability
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      • March–April 2023
      • Article

      The New-Collar Workforce

      By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
      Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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      • May–June 2019
      • Article

      Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Judith K. Wallenstein and Alice de Chalendar
      In 2018 the Project on Managing the Future of Work at HBS teamed up with the BCG Henderson Institute to survey 6,500 business leaders and 11,000 workers about the various forces reshaping the nature of work. The responses revealed a surprising gap: While the executives... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Employees; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • February 2016 (Revised December 2016)
      • Case

      IMAX: Scaling Personalized Learning in India

      By: John Jong-Hyun Kim, Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani
      IMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by providing schools with an integrated product suite including textbooks, workbooks, assessments,... View Details
      Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; India
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      • July 2013 (Revised May 2017)
      • Case

      European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge

      By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels
      The case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts of the Lisbon-agenda under way since 2000 to enhance Europe's competitiveness. It discusses the different policy... View Details
      Keywords: Integration; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Development Economics; Global Range; Policy; Failure; European Union; Europe
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      • 25 Jul 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: July 25, 2006

      efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the time of the BEE Commission Charnley found herself at the top of the pyramid, but she had come from the bottom, growing up in Elsies River—an Afrikaans-speaking, Colored area outside of Cape... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Digital Platforms 2.0: Learnings, Opportunities, and Challenges

      By: Shrabastee Banerjee, Ishita Chakraborty, Hana Choi, Hannes Datta, Remi Daviet, Chiara Farronato, Minkyung Kim, Anja Lambrecht, Puneet Manchanda, Aniko Oery, Ananya Sen, Marshall W Van Alstyne, Prasad Vana, Kenneth C Wilbur, Xu Zhang and Bobby Zhou
      Platform-based digital ecosystems form the backbone of our interactions with the Internet. Over the past decade, digital ecosystems have witnessed significant growth, both in terms of industry footprint and academic research. Yet, the challenges associated with their... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; E-commerce; Market Design
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      • March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
      • Supplement

      From "BIG" Ideas to Sustainable Impact at ICL Group (B)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
      In August 2023, Raviv Zoller, CEO of ICL Group, discussed his upcoming business trip to St. Louis with Eduard Croitoru, VP of ICL Corporate Initiatives, to commemorate the construction of ICL's new $400 million advanced manufacturing facility. In preparation for the... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Agribusiness; Accounting; Communication; Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Machinery and Machining; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Globalization; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Battery Industry; Israel; United States; China
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      • Teaching Interest

      Public Entrepreneurship

      By: Mitchell B. Weiss

      Public entrepreneurship is designed for future private entrepreneurs and public leaders who want to build new ventures operating in or selling into traditionally public domains.

      The last few years have seen a wave of new public entrepreneurs start companies... View Details

      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship