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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

the organization to attract new consumers and markets. Other topics include: How innovations affect mature organizations and how to respond to technological shocks. How firms... View Details

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

2007
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Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries

By: Lee Fleming, J. Rivkin and O. Sorenson

Keywords: Complexity; Boundaries; Information Management; Knowledge Dissemination

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

technological competence in the schools, infrastructure, friendliness to foreign visitors, and marketing the region to the world," explains Kanter. Commission member Paul Guzzi, president of the Greater... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

culture at scale that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and analyze how personal beliefs might influence decision-making. Develop techniques to combat bias. Highlights What is Fairness View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

creates a more genuine style of leadership communication. Interactivity turns that communication into a two-way dialogue, allowing management to respond to workers’ needs better, and act on their insights. View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

1994
Chapter

The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control

By: N. Nohria and J. D. Berkley

Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Power and Influence

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

relationship. With operations primarily online, their major expenses are technology and advertising. Labor costs are miniscule, because the workers who create revenue are independent contractors. In... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

live.” CAMH, he is confident, will be leading the movement. Unspinning the COVID web These three stories provide yet another example of how COVID-19 has mushroomed into multiple interrelated crises and revealed underlying View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

25 Aug 2016
News

What's Old is New Again

December 1989 (Revised February 1993)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate

In 1989, Frito-Lay designed an information technology infrastructure to support time-based competition and organizational restructuring. The company planned to provide timely flexible information to all major decision makers at all levels. This case describes the... View Details

Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Time Management; Organizational Structure; Information Management; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog

Belgium. The Netherlands is a global leader in horticulture and food system sustainability. While it only has 5% of the population of the U.S., it is the second largest food exporter in the world, trailing... View Details

October 1988 (Revised April 1993)
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Seligram, Inc.: Electronic Testing Operations

Explores the obsolescence of a cost system when technology changes. In particular, it asks students to increase the number of cost center and allocation bases. The firm moves from a one-center, direct labor-hour system to a three-center, direct labor-hour and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Cost Accounting; Change Management

Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 1992 (Revised May 1993)
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Porsche AG

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Describes the financial management of the research and development departments of an automobile manufacturer and technology supplier. Existing cost systems measure accurately the costs incurred by department and by project. But little formal information is provided... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Cost Accounting; Research and Development; Machinery and Machining; Technology Industry; Technology Industry