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- March 2020
- Case
China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?
By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han
In late 2019, a novel respiratory virus appeared in a province in central China. Government officials in Wuhan, Hubei province had to respond to the new virus in the shadow of the 2002–2003 outbreak of SARS in China and within the context of the country’s public health... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; Public Health; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Government Administration; Social Issues; Policy; Decision Making; China
Rithmire, Meg, and Courtney Han. "China's Management of COVID-19 (A): People's War or Chernobyl Moment?" Harvard Business School Case 720-035, March 2020.
- Article
Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks
By: Miao Cheng, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang and Po-Ling Loh
Crowdfunding is a recent financing phenomenon that is gaining wide popularity as a means for startups to raise seed funding for their companies. This paper presents our initial results at understanding this phenomenon using an exploratory data driven approach. We have... View Details
Cheng, Miao, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang, and Po-Ling Loh. "Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks." Proceedings of the International Workshop on Exploratory Search in Databases and the Web 3rd (2016): 25–30.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle
By: David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein and Egon Zakrajsek
Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean reversion in credit-market conditions.... View Details
Lopez-Salido, David, Jeremy C. Stein, and Egon Zakrajsek. "Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21879, January 2016.
- September 1999 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
Swatch Group, The: On Internet Time
By: Luc R. Wathieu, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Under the leadership of Nicholas Hayek, the Swatch Group, makers of the Swatch watch, is widely credited with revitalizing the Swiss watch industry by offering a consistent set of brands addressing all segments of the global watch market. New opportunities beyond the... View Details
Wathieu, Luc R., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Swatch Group, The: On Internet Time." Harvard Business School Case 500-014, September 1999. (Revised November 2000.)
- April 2013
- Article
Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters)... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Power and Influence; Health Industry; United Kingdom
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation." Management Science 59, no. 4 (April 2013): 819–836.
- March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth W. Legris
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment, and sustainability. A former environmental... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Values; Development Stage Enterprises; Innovation; Management By Objective; Experimentation; Emerging Technologies; Mission and Purpose; Management Style; Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry; New Hampshire
Koehn, Nancy F., Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth W. Legris. "Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm." Harvard Business School Case 312-122, March 2012. (Revised October 2012.)
- March 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Massive Incorporated (A)
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Clark Gilbert and Victoria Winston
How do you go to market with a brand new product in a new industry? How does a business develop an opportunity and then adapt its strategy to ensure success? Who are the early adopters and how does a business work with them? Katherine Hays, chief operating office at... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Product Launch; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Advertising Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, Clark Gilbert, and Victoria Winston. "Massive Incorporated (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-126, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
regulations needed to be based on hard science and engineering knowledge. To achieve this, collaboration with the Swedish government was seen as instrumental and joint R&D was regarded as a means to share knowledge and costs. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
recognizes that communication with and motivation of an organization's managers, employees, and partners is extremely difficult. What this means in practice is that if we tell all participants in an organization that its sole purpose is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
of thought. He said, "for a leader to be transparent he should have had inculcated an environment of TRUST beforehand, which means he cannot suddenly become candid about his apprehensions." Dora Bonnet commented, the role of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Teaching Interest
Supply Chain Management
The Supply Chain Management (SCM) course builds on aspects of the first-year Technology and Operations Management (RC TOM) course. However, whereas RC TOM focuses primarily on developing and producing products and services, SCM emphasizes managing... View Details
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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting
employees to engage in open conversation and feedback. Edmondson finds that organizations will often set the bar for participation too high, meaning that employees do not feel comfortable contributing to a conversation if their idea isn’t... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
reportedly linked to job-related misery. In a landmark ruling in 2019—the first of its kind—a French court found that a number of executives at France Télécom had fostered an environment of institutional harassment in the ruthless means... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Living in a Dorm at HBS
means in the winter months you can grab lunch, go to class, and visit friends without even having to go outside). MBA student Megan Trout was happy to shed light on her housing choice, and the reasons she loves dorm living. Why did you... View Details
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Photo Galleries - Alumni
Reunions Photo Galleries Select photographs taken by professional photographers during the HBS reunions are available for viewing and purchase on a private, secure site. The galleries are "unlisted" within the HBS Alumni SmugMug site, which View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
purpose of related side jobs, such as teaching journalism, in keeping with the “moral claims” of the profession. Others have taken this process a couple steps further. These reporters and editors have redefined what it means to stay true... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
what they do and appreciation for their jobs, rather than feeling extrinsically motivated by cash alone.” If you give cash, include a meaningful note For many employees, particularly younger generations, a job is not just a paycheck; people seek View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
makes Birkin bags hard to get. The ultra-lux handbag designer limits how many Birkin bags it sells, driving up customers’ willingness to pay. While that increases the company’s competitive advantage, says Karp, that doesn’t necessarily translate into a higher return on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
greater number of clients under the age of 40. “If you have a client base that is getting older, it means that basically you are stuck to the set of assets.” While this makes intuitive sense, as younger clients are seeking to grow their... View Details
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leaders, we mean people who embody a certain type of competence and character—both the competence that comes from the general manager’s perspective the School cultivates and the character to understand the difference between being... View Details