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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

high.  What recommendations do you have for our audience (many of which who are starting jobs, going on interviews, and networking) So many! Don’t be afraid to prepare personalized topics before your conversations, ask more questions... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

Take a Seat in the Case Method Classroom

Classroom Video Student Perspectives Video HBS students share what it’s like to learn via the Case Method style of teaching, and reflect on its defining role in the HBS experience. View Student Perspectives Video Faculty Perspectives Video HBS faculty share what it's... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones
  • Research Summary

Growing as a Purposeful Leader

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Leaders today have to lead in the context of extraordinary changes and challenges. The demands of today's stakeholders have risen significantly, and what is expected of senior leaders is quickly evolving in terms of their mission (more than profit),... View Details

  • 2019
  • Article

Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation

By: John Winsor, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman and Karim R. Lakhani
Purpose: This article offers insight on how to effectively help incumbent organizations prepare for global business shifts to open source and digital business models.
Design/methodology/approach: Discussion related to observation, experience and case studies... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Innovation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment... View Details
Keywords: Precision Medicine; Healthcare; Innovation; Cancer; Cancer Research; Health Care; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Utah; United States; North America
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  • July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Supplement

United Rentals (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a... View Details
Keywords: Boards Of Directors; Board Committees; Chairman; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Construction Industry; North America
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  • 2012
  • Report

Sweden's Position in the Global Economy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
In the spring of 2012, the Swedish economy is, as many of its peers, facing a difficult and uncertain economic environment. While these challenges are real, the Swedish economy looks much better prepared to deal with them than many of its peers. Following its own... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Policy; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
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  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Private Equity Group, and executive chairman of the firm’s private equity business in Asia. Melwani’s support for the School stems from the deep impact his two years in the MBA Program have had on his life as well as his belief in the School’s mission. “HBS was the... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

the daunting task of implementing new IT capabilities while ensuring they are also prepared for the next version or generation. The emerging IT environment is at a level of complexity such that efforts to build IT infrastructure and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
  • 09 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

had been on campus a month earlier than my MBA peers, I knew my cohort well, and had already completed an MS course so I felt better prepared to dive into the MBA cases. In the second (or EC) year, you are required to take several... View Details
  • Web

Our Curriculum - Business History

financial crises, government also looms large as an actor in many of the cases. Although the past is unlikely to repeat itself exactly, business managers who have a strong background in financial history are likely to be better prepared... View Details
  • Web

Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Entrepreneurship Essentials I am using some of the negotiation preparation techniques from the course in different aspects of my job. Overall, I feel more confident in situations that might have once felt intimidating. Sara Simon Pioger... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

and assessing performance. This is a period of continuous learning. The lessons may be unchosen and unwanted, but they can be leveraged to guide future actions. It is important not to let them go to waste. Firms should ideally emerge from this crisis sturdier, wiser,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

image of raw serenity it presented to the world; yet it took a concerted marketing effort that highlighted these elements in an attractive way to succeed. Prepare to invest money and time. Ten years ago, South Korea set out to remove the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

Samurai prior to its US introduction. I was cold-called to open the case, and I still remember how I started my response. I knew I’d nailed it. Professor Fareena Sultan was really tough, so I had to always be prepared to rise to her high... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
  • Case

NOWaccount

By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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    Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

    The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details
    • 22 Dec 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

    foster effective succession in the leadership ranks. In large part, the culture both prepares successors and eases the transition. Cultures can sour. Among the reasons for this are success itself, the loss of curiosity and interest in... View Details
    Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler
    • 11 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Risks of Short-Term Management

    line of inquiry is to gain an understanding of what the root causes of short-termism are. My hypothesis is that short-termism can be traced to some extent to individual traits of capital market agents. Identifying those traits can help business educators and recruiters... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services