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    Frances X. Frei

    Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and design for excellence in leadership, strategy, and operations. She regularly advises senior executives... View Details

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    • 30 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Entering the Age of Alliances

    outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin
    • April 2021
    • Case

    ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Ashiana Jivraj and Jane Barrow
    The case illustrates the application of value-based health care to dental medicine. ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers was a rapidly-growing network of dentist-owned independent implant clinics. The targeted market included 23 million people, 15% of the US adult... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Dental Medicine; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Business Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; United States
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    • October 2012 (Revised January 2014)
    • Case

    Building Brand Infosys

    By: Rohit Deshpandé and Vidhya Muthuram
    Infosys Limited was India's second largest exporter of IT services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether whose... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; India
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      David Ager

      David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

      • 2008
      • Simulation

      Everest Leadership and Team Simulation

      By: Michael A. Roberto and Amy C. Edmondson
      This item is currently not available for purchase on this site. To order, please contact Customer Service - (800) 545-7685 or (617) 783-7600. **REVISED AUGUST 2009!** This web-based simulation uses the dramatic context of a Mount Everest expedition to reinforce student... View Details
      Keywords: Cooperation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership
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      • June 2019 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries

      By: Paul M. Healy, Susanna Gallani and Esel Çekin
      Building on his father’s legacy, Omar Alghanim (MBA 2002) had been working on strengthening a performance-driven culture based on meritocracy in the family business, Alghanim Industries. The task had been particularly challenging because of traditional Middle East... View Details
      Keywords: Meritocracy; Social Norms; Family Business; Organizational Culture; Performance; Diversity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Middle East; Kuwait
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        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
        • June 2021
        • Case

        Acelero Learning

        By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
        In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details
        Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
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        • 21 Mar 2014
        • Blog Post

        East Asia MBA Market Update

        Over the past several months I have engaged with organizations across East Asia regarding job opportunities for MBA candidates. While economic growth has slowed in the region, the job market is still good overall for MBA graduates and there are View Details
        Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

          John A. Deighton

          John Deighton is The Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an authority on consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. He teaches in the area of Big Data in Marketing,... View Details

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            Gunnar Trumbull

            Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

            Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

            Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

              George Serafeim

              George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the MBA course “Risks, Opportunities,... View Details

              Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology

                Anita Elberse

                Anita Elberse is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

                Professor Elberse develops and teaches an MBA course covering the "Businesses of Entertainment, Media, and Sports," which ranks among the most sought-after... View Details

                Keywords: advertising; arts; broadcasting; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; electronics; entertainment; fashion; home video games; information; marketing industry; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; telecommunications; video games
                • September 2022
                • Case

                ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office

                By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
                Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into... View Details
                Keywords: Impact Investing; ESG; Green Building; Family; Partnership; Latin America; Brazil; Buildings and Facilities; Green Buildings; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Management; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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                • May 2016
                • Article

                Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of Opinion Leaders

                By: Joanne Disch, Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall and Shelley Fuld Nasso
                "What Health System Transformations Do You Believe Are Necessary for the Future of Health Care?" We need to transform to a true value-based health care delivery system. That means organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We... View Details
                Keywords: Perspective; Health Disorders; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Health Industry
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                  Jill J. Avery

                  Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

                  Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
                  • August 2019 (Revised August 2020)
                  • Case

                  Magrabi: Fulfilling the Vision for the Future

                  By: John Beshears, Alpana Thapar and Boris Tsimerinov
                  In 2018, Magrabi was the leading retailer of eyeglasses, sunglasses, and other optical products in the Middle East, and it was embarking on a major shift in strategy, transitioning from a brand focused on clinical expertise to a brand that combined technical excellence... View Details
                  Keywords: Brands and Branding; Transition; Luxury; Sales; Service Delivery; Strategy; Employees; Recruitment; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; Middle East
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                  • January 28, 2021
                  • Other Article

                  Lessons from the U.S.'s Rocky Vaccine Rollout

                  By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
                  The rocky rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines is emblematic of many of the problems with the U.S. health care system. The United States is blessed with highly trained, excellent, and compassionate care providers and terrific research and development that has led to novel... View Details
                  Keywords: Health Care; COVID-19; Vaccines; Operations Improvement; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Improvement; Health; Health Industry; United States
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                    Shawn A. Cole

                    Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

                    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services