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July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry

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Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman

This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Structure; Social Issues; Boundaries

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23 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

Credit ratings play an essential role in global finance by assessing whether borrowers can meet their debt obligations. Agency analysts study data from financial statements to make initial assessments about bond issuers, which include... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

society as a whole. This may mean, for example, increasing the average income per citizen; meeting the demand for donated organs; or improving the natural environment. We will present real-world examples in which we can increase two or... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk

25 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

propose a future rendezvous. “I could say let’s meet in one year, or I could say let’s meet in 365 days,” he says. “Now, if I say the latter one, it sounds pretty serious and precise. But if I say we’ll... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

22 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

your primary customer will allow you to devote all possible resources to meeting their needs and minimize resources devoted to everything else. This is the path to competitive success. It's easy to try to duck the tough choice implied by... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote collaboration to scheduling View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

restaurant or store; the winner's name was drawn at a meeting attended by all the employees. At the end of the sixth month, the plant manager held another drawing for a $100 gift card for all employees with perfect attendance records over... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

will you gain by resigning, and what will you give up? Are your skills in such strong demand that you are already being approached by recruiters? Meet with the boss. No one likes a surprise exit, so don’t walk into the boss’s office,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

12 Sep 2023
What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

ago. But you are also aware of a law being litigated in your company’s home state legislature, citing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, that would prohibit the practice of requiring employee attendance at meetings stressing DEI. The law... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

following provides guidance on how to format your HBS email signature to meet school guidelines. Event Guideline Policies HBS facilities are for use exclusively by current HBS affiliates (faculty, staff, MBA student groups) for events... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

art of the possible” with respect to remote work. But he adds that Bank of America can move only so far from the in-person experience. “We have a relationship culture and an apprenticeship culture,” he says. “You don’t get that from a Zoom View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

your computer screen and take a break from accomplishing task after task. Another suggestion involves simply slowing down physically in order to slow down mentally. One busy executive who managed 1,500 people said when she had meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

enabling the integration of the frameworks and functional skills learned in the first year into an understanding of the organization as a total enterprise. In order to design a tailored curriculum to meet their academic goals students may... View Details

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Loan Assistance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Program is a financial aid award for loan repayment assistance, and is given to alumni who meet certain eligibility requirements. The loan assistance award is not a formal support or endorsement of an organization, and should not be... View Details

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

skepticism others may feel about you is to surprise and delight them, Huang says. In a meeting with a buyer for Neiman Marcus, clothing designer Sara Blakely was talking up the benefits of her product, Spanx, but sensed she was losing the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Finance - Faculty & Research

States." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 6, no. 2 (February 2025). Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp. By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer January 2025 | Case | Faculty Research Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to... View Details

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

and even foolhardy. Some in tech suggest there’s more of a “move fast, break things” strategy to it than perhaps meets the eye. How does it look to you? Wu: We shouldn’t be surprised by the management style that Musk is taking to Twitter.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

01 Sep 2023
News

Action Plan: In Context

people being kind to other people?” How to: Prepare for a Meeting in Another Country Know what to expect. An executive accustomed to presenting to a question-asking American audience might be disheartened by a quiet room of Chinese... View Details

Keywords: April White; communication; manners; business; entrepreneurship; China; human behavior

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