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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
America's Innovation & Development Team quickly realized that it would be very difficult to conduct a diverse array of experiments within the confines of a traditionally designed bank branch. Experiments require frequent changes in... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
trials and among early adopters. The issues Twine's leadership team had to address included identifying clinical care providers willing to pay for Twine, ensuring adoption and effective use by both patients and health care providers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
they are managing their careers in the evolving context of their own professional and personal lives. Q: The book addresses aspects of business life that are vexing to many of us. For example, what are some ways to make meetings more... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Dumas, an assistant professor at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, describe their findings in the paper Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
acquisitions and development for the magazine, which recently increased its frequency from six to ten issues per year. “HBR has always been serious, authoritative, and elegant,” notes Wetlaufer. “We are working now to be more like... View Details
- June 2021
- Case
Selassie Atadika: Entrepreneurship in Africa
By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson and Katherine Connolly Baden
This case profiles the career of Ghana-based chef and entrepreneur, Selassie Atadika. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she faced many questions about the future, such as: How could she convince Ghanaian consumers to view their native cuisine in a fresh,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Women And Leadership; Women-owned Businesses; Food; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; South Africa
Groysberg, Boris, Susan Seligson, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Selassie Atadika: Entrepreneurship in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 421-093, June 2021.
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Maya Babu
realize that beyond the medical issues, there's a need for leaders who can build morale, inspire employees, negotiate with contractors—just as there is in business. To be effective in the public sector, long-term, I needed a background in... View Details
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
challenges associated with developing, overseeing, or interacting with a platform business Explore strategies for transitioning a product or service into a platform Build offensive and defensive plans to effectively View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
“which is a fancy way of referring to all of the things you don’t have as a new company—products, knowledge, connections, resources.” The most common and effective way to make up for that lack is to find someone who can help you overcome... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Post for Palepu
the University’s International Strategy Working Group, and Harvard’s international strategy generally, and developing a more effective and coordinated approach to fundraising and engagement with Harvard... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Spangler Center Opens to Rave Reviews
experience here even more effective and more powerful,” Dean Kim B. Clark observed at the dedication. “We are enormously grateful to the Spanglers.” For his part, Spangler thanked the thousands of people who had worked on the building in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
but about a more general situation. That’s very powerful.” Sameer Srivastava (MBA 1999) was already a partner at Monitor Group when he felt the call to shift gears. “The itch that didn’t get scratched as a management consultant was the... View Details
- 1982
- Article
Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors
By: R. Katz and Michael Tushman
Katz, R., and Michael Tushman. "Managerial Roles and Career Paths of Gatekeepers and Project Supervisors." R&D Management 11 (1982).
- March 1999 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
TelePizza
Describes TelePizza, is Spain's leading chain of pizza restaurants and delivery services. TelePizza has experienced rapid growth to 500 stores since its creation in 1987. The company went public on the Spanish stock market in late 1996. Franchising has played an... View Details
Kuemmerle, Walter, Juan Roure, and Chad S Ellis. "TelePizza." Harvard Business School Case 899-080, March 1999. (Revised April 2004.)
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
everyone focused on mission through regular engagement with employees—much more so than CEOs in my generation. So if CEOs are focused on the mission, why aren't these messages getting through to employees? “Instead of managers who... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Many deliver disappointing performances. Companies can avoid this scenario, contends Joseph Bower in The CEO Within. Drawing on a decade's research (including interviews with leading CEOs) and experience managing the succession process,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, HBS’s 15 global centers and offices have been instrumental in supporting faculty members’ research into the business impact of the pandemic and supporting alumni who have... View Details