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December 2002 (Revised December 2017)
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Teaching Old Companies New Tricks: The Challenge of Managing New Streams Within the Mainstream

Describes the challenge of starting new ventures or new activities in established companies, especially if they diverge from the mainstream of ongoing commitments. Fledgling ventures require a different kind of management that acknowledges their uncertainty, intensity,... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Teaching; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Corporate Strategy

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Teaching Old Companies New Tricks: The Challenge of Managing New Streams Within the Mainstream

How to Build a Life: Five Teachings of the Dalai Lama I Try to Live By

Johnson & Johnson (A), (B): Hospital Services, & Johnson & Johnson: Hospital Services, Teaching Note

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

France (A): From Liberation to the Debate on the Common Market, Teaching Note

Kate Spade New York: Will Expansion Deepen or Dilute the Brand? Teaching Note

Xerox Corp.: Leadership of the Information Technology Function (A) and (B), Teaching Note

Manufacturing Learning Laboratory at Digital Equipment Corp. (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note

Around the World: How HBS embraced globalization and transformed its research and teaching

Teaching Note IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

Telecommunications in Transition and Telecommunications in Transition: Appendixes A, B, and C, Teaching Note

What FDR, Churchill, and Shackleton can teach us about leadership during the coronavirus crisis

Case Teaching at Harvard Business School: Some Advice for New Faculty

France (E): The French Economy Enters the 1980s, Teaching Note

France (D): French Industry Faces the Sixth Plan, Teaching Note

Understanding the U.S. Dollar in 1985 & 1987, Teaching Note

Freedom versus Regulation in a Commons - HBS Teaching Note

Nordstrom and Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A), Teaching Note

Tambrands, Inc.: The Femtech Soviet Joint Venture (A), Teaching Note

Conglomerates and the Merger Movement of the 1960s, Teaching Note