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  • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth to found Sampark Foundation — a grant-making philanthropy with a mission to transform learning outcomes for 20... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Cultural Change; Digital; Innovation; Experimentation; Metrics; Education Reform; Non-profit; Frugal Innovation; Scale; Ecosystem; Government; Education; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Innovation Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Digital Transformation; India
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  • November 2020
  • Supplement

Improving Access at VA (Update)

By: Ryan W. Buell
In November 2020, Chief Veterans Experience Officer, Lynda Davis, and Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer, Barbara C. Morton reflect on a busy four years leading the Veterans Experience Office at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The case provides an update... View Details
Keywords: Government; Service Management; Leading Change; Transformation; Service Operations; Management; Health Care and Treatment; Government Administration; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • July 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

MC Tool

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Sean Witty and Jason Premo acquired MC Tool, a machine shop located in South Carolina in 2007 with the intent to transform it into a precision manufacturer. Witty and Premo were able to more than double revenue to $6 million in their first year of managing MC by... View Details
Keywords: Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Production; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Financial Condition; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    Robert S. Huckman

    Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
    • 2013
    • Report

    Lasting Impact: A Business Leader's Playbook for Supporting America's Schools

    By: Jan Rivkin, Sara Allan, Allen Grossman and Nithya Vaduganathan
    This booklet provides a practical approach for business leaders seeking to understand the complex issues involved in transforming PK-12 education. It lists actions that businesses can take, as well as best practices that they can follow, to help educators create... View Details
    Keywords: PK - 12 Education; U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Business and Community Relations; Cooperation; United States
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    • 27 Apr 2016
    • News

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself after 9/11

    • Video

    Nicolás Jodal

    Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, shares his reaction to recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence with Large Language Models (LLMs), comparing their emergence to the industrial revolution and underscoring the need for swift adaptation to the... View Details
    • 03 Jun 2020
    • News

    Who Guarantees Your Workplace is Safe for Return?

    • 16 Jul 2010
    • News

    Harvard Scholar Writes Beauty History Book

    • 04 Aug 2021
    • News

    This Technology Will Have A Profound Effect On The Fashion Industry

    • January–February 2017
    • Article

    The Truth about Blockchain

    By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
    Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven’t kept up with the world’s digital transformation. They’re like rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem.... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Information Management; Information Technology Industry
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    • 03 Aug 2016
    • News

    How Self-Managed Companies Help People Learn on the Job

    • Program

    General Management Program

    organization, the program delivers the tools you need to capitalize on technological disruption and digital transformation and play a more strategic role in corporate success. This includes: Read More Considering global and industry... View Details
    • December 2023
    • Case

    Raízen: Helping to Decarbonize the World?

    By: Gunnar Trumbull, Pedro Levindo, Daniel Tong and Rafaella Mazza
    Raízen, the world’s largest sugar and ethanol producer, strived to find ways to expand the second-generation ethanol (E2G) market, which it pioneered. The company planned to invest R$24 billion (around $4.6 billion) in 20 production plants, with a total capacity to... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Production; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil; Europe; North America; United States; Argentina; Paraguay
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    • 04 Oct 2011
    • News

    Corporate Culture Quantified?

      Partial Credit: How America's School Superintendents See Business as a Partner

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      • December 2018
      • Case

      OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A)

      By: Juan Alcacer, Jérôme Lenhardt and Emer Moloney
      In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek telecommunications company OTE. OTE still exhibited many traits of a large incumbent organization, with high personnel costs, crippling bureaucracy, lack of customer-centricity, a dull brand, and... View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Transformation; Economy; Crisis Management; Telecommunications Industry; Greece
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      • May 2011 (Revised July 2015)
      • Case

      Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Katharine Lee and Marie Bell
      The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work by 2011, its senior... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Product; Distribution; Consolidation; Distribution Channels; Transformation; Business Processes; Auto Industry
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      • May 2012
      • Case

      Westlake Lanes: How Can This Business Be Saved?

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Alisa Zalosh
      Shelby Givens, a new MBA, is the general manager of Westlake Lanes, a near-bankrupt bowling alley that her grandfather founded decades earlier. Givens has been given one year to turn a profit; if the goal is not met Westlake will close. During the first few days on the... View Details
      Keywords: United States; Operations Management; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Turnarounds; Strategy; Leading Change; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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      • 21 Nov 2019
      • Blog Post

      The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

      How do countries and companies work to achieve their carbon reduction goals? Is a Green New Deal necessary to transform the United States economy? These were just a few of the questions driving discussions at the 16th annual Symposium... View Details
      Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech