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Juan Alcacer

Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within... View Details

Keywords: consulting; management consulting; telecommunications

01 Oct 2002
News

HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad

Boston and Dublin, so building and maintaining connections with the School is another top priority. Barry serves on the twelve-member board of View Details

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

trapped men (enough food for two men for 10 days) combined to make the possibility of rescue appear all but impossible to consulted experts. A mining rescue in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

place was capable. With every job I took, I figured out who could take over for me before I even started. Succession planning was an absolute.” Swan left Nickelodeon three years after giving birth; now the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

turnaround. Consider the situations that confronted new CEOs in three companies: Gillette: Its performance was strong through the mid-1990s, but by the beginning View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details

September 2020 (Revised July 2021)
Case

Moderna (A)

By: Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani, Hannah Mayer and Kerry Herman

In summer 2020, Stephane Bancel, CEO of biotech firm Moderna, faces several challenges as his company races to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The case explores how a company builds a digital organization, and leverages artificial intelligence and other digital... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Digital Organizations; Organizational Structure; Operations; Management; Health Pandemics; Research and Development; Goals and Objectives

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15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

to be respectful of the things in our life that are already gone. And so ever since then, we have built a temple every year that's a counterpoint to View Details

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

MBAs who had graduated as recently as a year ago and as long as 30 years ago to a series of roundtables to discuss their perspectives on inequality and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

01 Feb 1999
News

All in the Family

you're the president, but our differences about how to run it are getting bigger, and our relationship is deteriorating quickly. I think the best thing is for me to leave." The... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

of ironclad deadlines and word length. The result was a classic love-hate relationship. “While in the MBA Program, students tend to dislike report writing,” View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Teaching Note

Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences

By: Jill Avery

Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales... View Details

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18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

clarity about the organization's aspirations," Kaplan says. The leader may have a clear vision in his or her head but has not communicated it effectively throughout View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

top-down, generic approaches to communicating their plans with their employees. Although mass emails and newsletters are not problematic in and of themselves, they are no substitute for View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

Thirty years of internal strife in Northern Ireland have taken a toll on economic conditions in the areas surrounding the border between View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

leverages the School’s strengths and resources. It encompasses rigorous research, immersive learning, and cutting-edge practical applications that arise from cross-disciplinary partnerships within the... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The Evolving HBS Campus

The importance and value of the School’s unique residential environment has been clearly demonstrated in the nearly 100 View Details

21 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Global Business Club

hosts panels and fireside talks focused on topics such as global business development, global issues, and conducting business across borders. We have a great set of events lined up for the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

this year in midtown Manhattan its first retail theme store, a concept that it will likely repeat in other cities around the world.) In licensing, as in other areas, the NBA... View Details