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- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
the longer-term implications of a particularly inclusive immigration policy. “Sweden is an indicator of the need to wrestle with the immigration issue, and a sign of how difficult it’s going to be.” With a population of only 10.6 million,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
(Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2015), especially Chapter 4. Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld, Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, The New York Times, August 16, 2015, pp. A1 and A20-22. ... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- December 2023
- Teaching Note
Buurtzorg
By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details
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Overview
Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details
- January 2024
- Supplement
Buurtzorg
By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Business Model; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; Netherlands
Bernstein, Ethan, and Tatiana Sandino. "Buurtzorg." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-705, January 2024.
- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
2020, and as Bastian wrestled with his role and responsibility in hiring and advancing Black employees, he wasted no time in contacting many of its founding members, which include executives from Walmart, Target, Wells Fargo, Johnson... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS
use entrepreneurship to achieve financial success while also making the world a better place. We also study cases around failure, like Quincy Apparel and Ofo, and wrestle with mission and values of companies like Careem and Barry's. 4.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
service-oriented airline, one of the issues students wrestle with is whether or not the airline needed to be this specific in how the penalties and compensation would work," says Huckman. The students seem to come down evenly on both... View Details
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
Even though the internet has been publicly available for almost three decades, executives at just about every company are wrestling with how to use digital technology to advance their business strategy. We asked professors from Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business
Wrestling Damien Wilkins NBA Elizabeth Williams WNBA Grant Williams NBA Katherine Williams Ballet Deatrich Wise NFL Caroline Wozniacki WTA Blidi Wreh-Wilson NFL Brandon Wynn Gymnastics Liz Yilmaz Ballet Remy Young Ballet Sam Young NFL... View Details
- Web
Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
You’ll wrestle with the same issues they faced, while problem-solving and interacting with fellow learners from around the world." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jun 18 8 Weeks $1,850 +... View Details
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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with whether and how “master’s tools”... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
typically won't do: It looks like a great technology, really groundbreaking, could be a huge market, but it's a technologist—sometimes a wild-eyed technologist—who's driving it. The businessperson is either weak or not there at all. The hit rate and the time it takes... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
potentially lowering wage inequality in the labor markets.” The findings come at a time that communities expect more from companies and HR departments wrestle with the vexing combination of economic concerns and labor shortages. While the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
Like having both an angel and a devil whispering advice in our ears, consumers often wrestle with the "want" versus "should" decision. Yes, I want to purchase that chocolate bar, but I should snack on granola instead.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
that his father and elder brother are physicians, but his close-knit family has always encouraged him to widen his net. "They support my diversification into business," Okezie says. He majored in economics at Yale, where he graduated cum laude and was captain of the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Blog
Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
current with industry trends and connected with other executives and directors who are wrestling with similar problems. That's why your professional network is so important to your role as a board member—your network is part of what you... View Details