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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
business skills, HBS solidified Naidoo’s sense that systemic and structural issues were the root cause of many of the problems she had witnessed in South Africa, and that partnering with business could bring about real change.... View Details
- April 2010 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Emerging Nokia?
By: Juan Alcacer, Tarun Khanna, Mary Furey and Rakeen Mabud
By late 2009, Nokia was grappling with the decision of whether to recover its leading position in the high-profit developed markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Finland
Alcacer, Juan, Tarun Khanna, Mary Furey, and Rakeen Mabud. "Emerging Nokia?" Harvard Business School Case 710-429, April 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog
cases explore concrete situations that highlight the challenges and tradeoffs of decision-makers. Issues explored include: education, urban development, illegal drugs, rent control, housing, drug pricing, racial references, corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take Leadership and View Details
- October 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
Sustainability at Millipore (TN)
Teaching Note for [610012]. View Details
- August 2008 (Revised June 2013)
- Background Note
Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework
By: Allen S. Grossman and Stacey Childress
This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other,... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy
Grossman, Allen S., and Stacey Childress. "Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-035, August 2008. (Revised June 2013.)
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
father taught us we should make a contribution in some way and that responsibility comes along with success." At The Partnership since 1991, Wiley leads an organization that helps minorities gain access to the city's corporate power View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
chairman and CEO of the Connecticut-based Life Re Corporation (purchased in 1998 by Swiss Re of Zurich, Switzerland), also emphasized the importance of service. "Most of the world's problems are talked about by politicians," he noted,... View Details
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Aaron Chadbourne
private and public leadership Interested in an education that combined business and law, Aaron applied to both HBS and HLS and received a one-year deferral.. That year, Aaron worked for the VIP Forum of the Corporate Executive Board in... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
support. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55515 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For? By: Greyser, Stephen A., and Mats Urde Abstract— While most firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
managers who, with little of their own money at risk, were spending corporate resources on ill-conceived diversification and empire-building campaigns." "Unfortunately," Jensen concludes, "too much of the current M&A; activity falls into... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop and give... View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
competitive structure of the global real estate services market mandating that providers become more customer-solutions oriented. The case is set shortly after the announcement of the restructuring which, for the first time, will place... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
legal battles had destroyed the relationship between the families of the two cousins. This case describes the complexities of corporate governance for a family owned organization. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
clear sense from the courts of exactly where the dividing line between platforms and employers might be." In some ways Uber doesn't look like a traditional company—but it does have a corporate headquarters, in San Francisco.... View Details
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Tiera Brown
Growing up, Tiera Brown wanted to become a doctor and have her own practice. She'd watched her father run his own legal practice. "I love the freedom and autonomy of running your own business, "Tiera says, "but I always... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles
decide where we should open stores, what the stores should look like, how we should structure test drives, and how we should communicate with customers.” Applying her HBS education at Rivian After only a year at HBS, Danziger has found... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Below are outtakes from the faculty roundtable discussion on the crisis in corporate America (“Bad Times for Business,” December 2002). For more information about the research and academic activities of the roundtable participants, or any... View Details