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  • Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

  • January 2002
  • Case

Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day 2001, The

Explores the motivation for businesses to be concerned with the global AIDS epidemic. The formation of the council serves as an example of how business leaders are building a network of companies to develop an effective business response to AIDS-both through workforce... View Details
Keywords: Health; Social Issues; Global Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry
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Transforming Customer Experiences

operating models and strategic service mission with changing consumer needs, shifting market demands, and an evolving competitive landscape. Details Design effective service strategies and offerings Develop operations and service features... View Details
  • November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elie Ofek, Orna Dan and Emilie Billaud
In the spring of 2023, and following the favorable results of a trial involving its phage cocktail for treating lung infections among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, the leadership of BiomX had several critical issues to wrestle with. First, given its precarious... View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Financing and Loans; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • September 2006 (Revised September 2007)
  • Case

VMware, Inc. (A)

By: David B. Yoffie, Ward Bullard, Nikhil Raj and Suja Vaidyanathan
VMware, Inc., the first company to crack the software virtualization market, faces new challenges from competitors' plans to bundle free virtualization solutions in operating systems. VMware, acquired by data storage giant EMC Corp. in 2003, has delivered top-line... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Open Source Distribution; Competition
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  • Career Coach

Cathy Hutchinson

Cathy (Kellogg '01) is a member of the Career & Professional Development team and coaches students and alumni interested in entertainment/ media & technology career paths.  In addition to managing external marketing, View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Sports; Telecommunications; Technology
  • May 2011
  • Article

The Wise Leader

By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
In an era of increasing discontinuity, wise leadership has nearly vanished. Many leaders find it difficult to reinvent their corporations rapidly enough to cope with new technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Values and Beliefs; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Leadership Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence
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  • Web

Curriculum - Case Method Project

over how the federal government should address the rapid development of a new communications technology with major implications for American democracy: broadcast radio. In particular, it focuses on President... View Details
  • May 2008
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Sensors Unlimited: Bringing InGaAs Technology to the Market

By: Willy C. Shih
Sensors Unlimited was a small start-up in short-wavelength infrared imaging. Its learning base came out of Bell Labs, RCA's Sarnoff Lab, and the Rockwell Science Center, and as it built its capabilities and ventured into new application areas, it discovered a “killer... View Details
Keywords: Applied Optics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry; Technology Industry
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  • Program

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

Recognize how leadership styles and senior team characteristics affect change Make better decisions about change initiatives—even with insufficient information Develop internal communication networks... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

centralization can improve complex problem-solving in a shifting environment because it helps preserve diversity of ideas and enables a core to elevate the best ones, as long as two-way communication exists. One way to preserve that... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Book

Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

instance, the anxiety necessary for our caveman ancestors to protect themselves from being cast out from their community (and get eaten by a tiger) is no longer as useful when activated by a slight on social media. Emotions are just that,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 15 Oct 2009
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Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Gastón Llanes; Technology
  • Program

Families in Business

strengths of your family business and implement practices that enable high performance, shareholder loyalty, healthy family relationships, and broad social impact. Key Benefits In this family enterprise management program, you’ll learn how to establish more effective... View Details
  • Career Coach

Becca Carnahan

Becca (HGSE, '13) is a career coach, writer, and entrepreneur passionate about helping students and alumni find fulfillment and joy in their work. She spent 12 years at Harvard Business School, most recently as Associate Director, Recruiting Operations in Career &... View Details
Keywords: Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Publishing / Communications / Advertising
  • 11 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Leadership and Diversity at HBS

community at HBS.  This year, I will be the one of two conference co-chairs. When thinking about how best to make an impact at HBS, I decided that taking ownership of such a prestigious event was a great way to not only View Details
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Initiatives & Projects - Faculty & Research

seeks to deepen business leaders' understanding of today’s environmental challenges and to assist them in developing effective solutions. Business History The Business History Initiative seeks to facilitate learning from the past through... View Details
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Agribusiness Seminar

presents many challenges but also new possibilities for firms that can embrace innovation, develop new strategies, deliver value, and build resilience. For more than 60 years, business leaders from around the world have gathered for the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
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Business & Environment

certification and standards programs designed to facilitate the growth of green industries and the early stages of ESG investing. The second path, which developed from the 1970s, grew out of the interest of big business which sought an... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

A: In two of the companies, there were no expats among top management and a great deal of sophistication about the best and latest in everything. In one of those, its development lab competes effectively on a world basis with similar... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne