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04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

What's happening in another part of the world that you could adopt and adapt in your environment? These disruptive innovations are not just novel inventions. Successful innovators take ideas and turn them into opportunities by adding a... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

minimum viable product, bootstrapping, and staged investment are critical to startups in these emerging ecosystems, one needs to adapt the lessons from mature markets like Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston that receive the majority of... View Details

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The Experience | Information Technology

possible The HBS Live Online Classroom team is a highly consultative and collaborative partner. We’ll help adapt your program to take full advantage of the virtual space—maximizing the participants’ engagement and the instructor’s... View Details

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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

We tackle “problem-finding” and “solution-finding”. We touch on customer discovery to understand needs of citizens and public workers. We meet entrepreneurs who used the tools of design thinking and explore how they can be adapted for... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

Role-playing is not just for the psychiatrist's couch or the acting student, according to new research by HBS professor Herminia M. Ibarra. In studying how junior professionals learn the skills required to move into senior roles, Ibarra found that "people View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Countdown To Remote Learning

led the group. The student experience was their top priority. “We needed to thoughtfully adapt our in-person teaching approach to provide an interactive and engaging experience online and incorporate the case method,” adds Datar, who is... View Details

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Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

to embrace change and prepare for the future. Read Featured Article Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think Joseph B. Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman & Alice de Chalendar MAY-JUN 2019 | Harvard Business Review Many... View Details

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Impact & Testimonials | Information Technology

any on-campus classroom, but with participants joining from around the world. Joshua D. Margolis ; James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Organizational Behavior Chair, Program for Leadership Development Are HBS Live Online... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad

to Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals firm, where he is general manager of the Performance Products Business Group. He believes his Taiwan experience demonstrated his ability to adapt quickly in new situations, making his new... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; international; relocation; employment

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Managing Service Operations - Course Catalog

distinctive and sustainable service strategies, How to execute service models that enable customers, employees, and owners to simultaneously thrive, and; How to adapt to evolving customer needs and changing competitive landscapes. A... View Details

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the most common culprits: Major leadership transitions, according... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

2019
Book

The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi

High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate—because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed to make sure that their interests are aligned with those... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge; Wise Leadership; Leaders; Innovation; Knowledge Management; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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June 2015 (Revised November 2016)
Case

2012 Obama Campaign: Learning in the Field

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Jason Gray

The development and utilization of an intentional Field learning strategy developed for the Obama for President campaign in 2012 following an after action Review calling for it after the 2008 elections View Details

Keywords: Training; Political Campaigns; Learning Organizations; Learning; Political Elections; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States

September 2002
Case

Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (A): The Freedom Agenda

Describes efforts in Seattle Public Schools, under the leadership of Superintendent Joseph Olchefske, to replace the district's centralized budgeting process with school-level budgets. Olchefske's decentralization effort, referred to locally as the Freedom Agenda,... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Education; Education Industry; Seattle

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May 2002
Case

Aspen Financial

By: Arthur I Segel and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam

Jack and Bruce Aspen must decide how they want to grow their commercial real estate finance company during a time of tremendous change in the industry. View Details

Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Growth and Development; Real Estate Industry

01 Oct 2003
Conference Presentation

Flexibility in New Product Development: Evidence, Insights and Obstacles from the Field

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges

August 1993
Case

Nestle S.A.: International Marketing (B)

By: John A. Quelch

Describes organization changes announced by Nestle's chariman in 1991 and updates the description of Nestle's marketing organization. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland

January 1995
Case

3M: Profile of an Innovating Company

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Afroze A Mohammed

Traces the birth and development of 3M Corp., focusing in particular on the origins of its entrepreneurially-based ability to innovate. In particular, it highlights the role of CEO William L. McKnight in creating a unique set of values, policies, and structures to... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture

11 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All

easily adapt to a different culture in a professional context? I landed in Berlin two weeks ago, directly from New Delhi, were I did my last course of the year. Without much time to settle down in the city, I started working as a member... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Mar 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

one year he’s grown revenues by 44 percent and increased his customer base by 32 percent. No matter what kind of businesses we create or what kind of infrastructure is built, it can all be destroyed in the space of a few hours by a Category Five storm. We need more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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