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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved quality of life—and major... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
its stores and its supply chain, lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, safer products for customers and manufacturers, and better treatment of its workers. The company promoted the idea that its size gave it significant influence in the economy and that if it took... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Dallas, and Detroit.) When Lopez became the company's fourth CEO, succeeding Peter Brown in 2009, the company had seen some rough years. "In the early 2000s, the industry had a brush with death," Lopez recalls. "The result was a very strict financial View Details
- November 2022
- Supplement
Arcos Dorados’ Quest for the Digitalization of Last-Mile Delivery in Colombia (B)
By: Jorge Tamayo, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In 2020, Francisco Staton, president of Arcos Dorados’ Caribbean Division, and Héctor Orozco, Managing Director of Arcos Dorados Colombia, were looking into Arcos Dorados’ options to consolidate its food delivery service in Colombia. This time the matter at hand hinged... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Logistics; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; South America; Colombia
Tamayo, Jorge, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Mariana Cal. "Arcos Dorados’ Quest for the Digitalization of Last-Mile Delivery in Colombia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-396, November 2022.
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
succeed in that context. The "graduates" of this school would have finely honed operational skills in managing quality programs, process improvement teams, and cost-control efforts. Even the most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
facility’s performance. “There is a lot of pressure to deliver and deliver quickly,” Sadun says. “The rational response of an appointed NHS CEO is not necessarily to improve the long-term performance of the hospital, but instead to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
for a successful educational experience in later years. And second, there is a new “culture of completion” in higher education, in which institutions are focusing on improving graduation rates for all students. Smart business leaders... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
second-largest private employer in the United States. Will the current crisis drive improvements in pay and benefits? CC: In terms of numbers, it’s hard to see an environment where there will be meaningfully more people working in... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
Care: A Multi-Method Study of Quality Improvement Collaboratives Heather M. Caruso (PhD) 2008 What We Can Gain From Losses: How Framing Affects Willingness to Collaborate with Outgroup Members Renée Richardson Gosline (DBA) 2009 The Real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I... View Details
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology dependent, which makes for interesting View Details
- 26 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health
foundation, I wanted to pivot for the summer and gain hands-on operational experience at a startup. Main Street Health provided the perfect opportunity to do just that—working in a fast-paced, early-stage environment where I could see the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- Web
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting
into a Startup Before attending HBS, I worked in consulting, where I focused on health care payer/provider clients. While consulting gave me a strong analytical and industry foundation, I wanted to pivot for the summer and gain hands-on View Details
- Web
Mohammed Guerrab | MBA
to improve societal outcomes. I worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Google this summer on Maps where I experienced how leveraging innovative technologies along with strategic business models can lead to useful solutions being View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
coming out of labs over the next 10 years will surpass anything we’ve experienced in the past,” says HBS senior fellow Richard Hamermesh, who co-chairs the accelerator with Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985). “Looking ahead, we expect to have the ecosystem in place to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
of the e-intermediary's presence. Managerial Implications: Our results provide a balanced perspective on the value of e-intermediation, compared to the generally positive views advanced by case studies. For-profit e-intermediaries that also aim to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.
commitment to clinical excellence and improving patients' health and quality of life. DaVita focuses on setting worldwide standards for clinical, social, and operational practices in kidney care, with over... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond
Harvard University has engaged its entire community in an effort to improve sustainability. Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to Harvard's Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, which includes achieving a fossil fuel-free... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
strategy transformation practices with increased involvement in the company’s philanthropic initiatives around homelessness and improving educational outcomes. He also serves on several statewide boards that promote public education and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg