Rollout - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2015
Teaching Note

CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman

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This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details

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03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

people. The rollout of the new technology is garnering a good deal of public attention, not just for the unfamiliar new “dialing” process that customers are required to learn, but also because of the mass layoffs of the women who served... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Aug 2023
HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

The recent rollout of ChatGPT by OpenAI has set the world abuzz about the potential of artificial intelligence. But whatever happened to the last tech phenomenon, the “metaverse”? The once-heavily hyped future of immersive 3D technology... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology

02 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

social media as a tool to expose corporate misconduct, Heese and Pacelli used data from the 3G (third generation) mobile broadband network rollout to identify increased activity on Twitter, plus they studied reports of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

ChatGPT, the remarkable AI chatbot garnering attention worldwide. The rollout comes amid mounting concerns that AI could perpetuate cultural, racial, and gender biases, sparking intense debate over the uses—and misuses—of this powerful... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

Walmart planned for 500,000 employees to go through Pathways in 2016, the initial rollout was considerably lower; as a result, Walmart needed to revamp some parts of the program to speed up its completion rate. (Its Academies program,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Profiles - MBA

next generation rollouts by identifying and then cultivating their own niche consumer market. The forethought, insight, and flexibility which this developmental process required is unparalleled, and I am continually amazed that two... View Details

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

Africa. Imagine Worldwide is currently executing a country-wide rollout to transform Malawi’s primary school system and aims to replicate that success in other nations in the area. Some 6,000 primary schools serve 3.8 million students in... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

13 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

for the research. Farronato hopes to eventually study the impact of searching solely with images. Embedded inside a retailer’s new rollout In 2021, the authors collaborated with one of the largest e-commerce platforms in China as it... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Meanwhile, starting in 2013, Analog Devices CEO Vince Roche encouraged innovators from the top down and transformed the semiconductor giant into a designer of integrated, strategic systems—including a platform that accelerated the global View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

A Matter Of Scale One key issue the case examines is "how to implement the rollout of a fast-food chain involving so many stores across such a vast—and regionally different—country," says Bell, who teaches the case in the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

holiday sales season, the demonstration took place at Jordan Marsh in Boston, one of the region's leading department stores. To orchestrate the rollout of the product, Polaroid hired J. Harold Booth, known for his success in sales and... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

United Way, and Scott Wilson of Volkswagen led the rollout of a program emphasizing five interventions (including “talk, sing, and point”; “count, group, and compare”; and “read and discuss stories”) that positively affect the swiftly... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its own end-user products. Ballard says the technology rollout and capitalization process will take place over the coming year; his plan is to... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

owners (and their investors and lenders) in all sectors will have to both outfit their buildings to measure components of public health and also respond to their occupants doing their own assessments. This might be disconcerting, and the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

executing it." In the HBS case study More Citizens Connect, Weiss details some of the learning challenges involved with Citizens Connect, the 311 app produced for Boston. After the successful rollout in that city, project creators... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

universal measurement and public reporting Link reimbursement to clinical performance using outcome reporting Set accounting standards for meaningful cost reporting in health care Accelerate the bundled pricing rollout schedule in CMS... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment

start a network from scratch?" In a stellar career that has also included stints running several movie studios and a national theater chain (as well as leading the initial U.S. rollout of Sony's PlayStation), Sagansky has always had his... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

students, and it’s also stretching the faculty to think more broadly about how we translate research into teaching.” —Joshua Margolis, James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration Scheduled for rollout early 2019,... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Think Locally, Act Globally

IBM for IT and Ericsson, Nokia Siemens, and Huawei for network. If we do well, then they do well. It’s that simple.” This low-cost model helps Bharti reduce operating costs and pass savings on to customers. With aggressive rollout and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

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