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- April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
IBM: Design Thinking
By: Srikant M. Datar, Amram Migdal and Paul Hamilton
This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every product team alongside technical engineers and developers and product managers. IBM’s design transformation is told... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Units; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Organizations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Adaptation; Adoption; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
Datar, Srikant M., Amram Migdal, and Paul Hamilton. "IBM: Design Thinking." Harvard Business School Case 121-007, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- January 2008
- Article
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Five Forces Framework; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy
Porter, Michael E. "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 78–93.
- 05 Jul 2010
- News
Time for an honest discussion about pay
Michael E. Porter
Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details
- May 03 2022
- Interview
Interview with Faculty Cochairs Robert S. Kaplan & Herman B. 'Dutch' Leonard
- October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data
By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephanie Marton. "Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data." Harvard Business School Case 419-033, October 2018. (Revised August 2023.)
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
From divestment to engagement
Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.
As Dean, building on... View Details
Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
- November 1999 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
Cresud S.A.
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Jonathan West and David Benedict Pearcy
Cresud, a listed Argentine agricultural company, generates value by operating farms and through land appreciation. This case describes Cresud's business model, industry, and country context. Can a corporate farmer in agriculture use public funds to compete in both the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Business Model; Value; Corporate Accountability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Jonathan West, and David Benedict Pearcy. "Cresud S.A." Harvard Business School Case 900-010, November 1999. (Revised April 2000.)
- 04 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley
Building on a Legacy Decades in the Making For decades, WesTrek has been a flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct access to the heart of the tech industry. This year’s trek came at an especially... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 30 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA
inner workings of the company. For instance, I was curious about the management of its supply chain, the types of analyses that were conducted to develop, validate, and review business strategies, how incentives were designed to drive... View Details
Thomas R. Piper
THOMAS R. PIPER, Baker Foundation Professor and Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is a faculty member in the Finance and Accounting Units at the Graduate School of Business Administration. He has taught in the MBA Program, as well... View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Life can get quite busy here for all the right reasons. No matter how demanding it gets, I try my best not to take my time here for granted because these few years have truly been special. This experience has been made possible by this... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- News
The problem with "Golden Parachutes"
- 14 Apr 2020
- Video
Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Chenault-Mills (Session 1)
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Why employers might not offer remote work options to junior staff
- 20 Feb 2018
- News