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  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

Rising star Jim Barton has decidedly mixed feelings after being selected as the new chief information officer at the fictional IVK Corporation. On the one hand, he lacks an IT background; on the other, he's ambitious and up for a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

for the whole industry. We are unlikely to see progress in cases where collaboration is unprofitable in both the short and the long term. Second, large institutional investors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • June 2023
  • Teaching Note

From Cradle to Heaven: Taikang Insurance Group

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 320-088. The case explores the rise of Taikang Insurance Group and its quest to be a leader of one of China's fastest-growing industries. Due to China's underdeveloped social welfare state, Taikang saw an opportunity for the private... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Government and Politics; Health Industry; China
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  • March 2012
  • Article

Enriching the Ecosystem

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these institutions-such as universities, venture creators, labor markets, and job-training programs-have tended... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Research and Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Growth and Development Strategy; United States
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    Das Narayandas

    Das Narayandas is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Technology degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), a Post-Graduate... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; beauty products; biotechnology; computer; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; federal government; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; internet; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; professional services; retailing; telecommunications; transportation
    • February 2007
    • Case

    Paul Robertson and the Medici String Quartet

    Describes the approach to creative collaboration and leadership adopted by Paul Robertson as leader of one of the most highly regarded string quartets in recent history. Intended to prompt a discussion of a variety of issues surrounding management of creative... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Creativity; Groups and Teams; Music Entertainment; Music Industry
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      Miaomiao Zhang

      Miaomiao Zhang is a doctoral candidate at the Technology & Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. Miaomiao received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Economics from Emory University. She worked at the Strategy Unit at Harvard... View Details

        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
        • 05 Jul 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil During Early Industrialization

        Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio & Ian Read; Banking

          Linda A. Hill

          Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

          • June 2008 (Revised October 2009)
          • Case

          InnoCentive.com (A)

          By: Karim R. Lakhani
          InnoCentive.com, a firm connecting R&D labs of large organizations to diverse external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if it will enable collaboration in its community. Case covers the basics of a distributed innovation system works and the... View Details
          Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Open Source Distribution; Research and Development; Competition; Cooperation
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          • Research Summary

          International Competitiveness in High Technology and Science Based Sectors

          By: Gary P. Pisano

          This research project examines shifts in competitive capabilities of companies and countries in high technology and science based businesses.  It is particularly concerned with the potential loss of such capabilities in various industrial sectors in the... View Details

          • 31 Aug 2007
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

          Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks & Patrick Kalaher

            Krishna G. Palepu

            KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the... View Details

            Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing
            • 18 Dec 2020
            • News

            HBS and ELC Team Up to Build Pipeline of Black Executives

            • 15 Nov 2018
            • Book

            Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

            JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
            Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
            • 01 Jan 2003
            • News

            • 21 Feb 2019
            • Blog Post

            Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

            This is a repost from the recruiting blog. For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about... View Details

              Andy Wu

              Andy Wu is the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. He researches, teaches, and advises managers... View Details

              Keywords: software; e-commerce industry; venture capital industry; biotechnology; video games
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              Current Boards

              By: Linda A. Hill
              -Board of Trustees of The ArtCenter College of Design
              -Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
              -Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, Special Representative
              -Board of Directors of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc.
              -Board of Directors... View Details