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  • March 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Case

Designing the Future of Work: Atlassian's Distributed Work Practices

By: Ashley Whillans and Gabriel Rondón Ichikawa
In early 2020, the software company Atlassian made a bold commitment: employees could work from anywhere—forever. While many tech peers reversed course on remote work, Atlassian worked to optimize their fully distributed model across 13 countries. This case follows... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Employees; Technology Industry
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  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

of gifts over time. So many in the nonprofit and philanthropy world wondered how Scott’s nonconforming principles would be expressed in her actual giving. Scott, whose net worth has been estimated to top $40 billion, established the organization Yield Giving in 2022 to... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Video Recording The AI Journey: What Changes, What Remains the Same 10:00–11:15 a.m. ET Speaker: Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) , MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration What does it take to live a... View Details
  • Web

Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

John Macomber argues that private investors could play a pivotal role in developing adaptation projects that provide strong returns. 06 Nov 2024 Managing the Future of Work Guest Episode: Joseph Fuller on The Gartner Talent Angle Bill... View Details
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

of the HBS Doctoral Programs have gone on to become prominent scholars in a wide range of disciplines at many of the world's most prestigious institutions. Placement, 2020-2025 Accounting & Management 2025 Terrence Tianshuo Shi Accounting... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2023
  • HBS Case

What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment

insights gleaned from teaching his MBA course, Leadership: Execution and Action Planning (LEAP), and from classroom observations of mid-career managers in executive education. Over the past decade, Raffaelli has asked hundreds of students... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • Web

Health Policy (Management) - Doctoral

in data-driven research on the managerial, operational, and strategic issues facing a wide range of organizations. From your home base at Harvard Business School, you will collaborate with faculty at Harvard Business School, Harvard... View Details
  • 2019
  • Book

Operations in an Omnichannel World

By: Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
The world of retailing has changed dramatically in the past decade. Sales originating at online channels have been steadily increasing, and even for sales transacted at brick-and-mortar channels, a much larger fraction of sales is affected by online channels in... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel; Omnichannel Retail; Retail; Operations; Management; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • Research Summary

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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • January–February 2013
  • Article

Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Policy; Healthcare; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Health Industry; United States
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  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

Idea Group's four-phase process of innovation: the generation of ideas and the winnowing of the ideas down to a manageable few. There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lackluster.—... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
  • Web

MBA Experience - Leadership

all students pursue the same course of study: the Required Curriculum and FIELD. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of general management concepts and skills across all the key disciplines.... View Details
  • Career Coach

Phil Wong

operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

described the proliferation of "digital positions" in their companies, from Digital Project Manager or Digital Director to Chief Transformation Officer or Chief Innovation Officer. In one roundtable discussion, participants predicted... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

From tech to media to management consulting firms, layoffs are back. Downsizing during a healthy economy can help lay the foundation for efficient growth or make space for new roles that harness newer technology, such as artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

analysis techniques to solve real-world business challenges and drive informed decision-making. 8 weeks, 5 hrs/week Pay by July 31 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

class did you read this case?In Managing Service Operations during my EC year with Professor Ryan Buell. How do you see yourself applying the lessons from this case in your future endeavors?My post-graduation focus is on growing and... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

meanwhile, managed a startling recovery from its five-year slump. The company’s third-quarter sales increased by more than 5 percent over last year, and in August online revenue showed especially high growth of a whopping 41 percent—the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

focuses on how management principles and best practices from other industries can be applied; how the process of innovation can be improved; how principles of strategy and consumer choice can be utilized; how information technology can... View Details