Transition - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 1998
Case

CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)

By: Myra M. Hart and Jennifer Starr

Silverman and her co-founder, Don Larson, own the largest privately held injury-management and cost-containment services firm in the United States. When their $80+ million company attracts substantial interest of investment bankers and venture capitalists, the two must... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Leadership Development; Venture Capital; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment; Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; United States

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31 Oct 2006
HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

goal of listing the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was realized in 1998. Changes to the company's retirement policy encouraged a more performance-oriented culture, and in 2000, Yawata made English the company's official language, paying for employee language... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk about companies transitioning... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

undergraduate degree. I spent my first couple of years at the company in the San Francisco Bay area and London in roles across the Marketing organization, including working on brand, reputation, and social responsibility initiatives. In my last several years at Google,... View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

repairs Tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies Observations room patients after ED care Chronic & Primary Care End-stage kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Audiology Dementia Degenerative neurological diseases Care transition... View Details

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Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting

SELP—India, I returned to Legrand with a fresh perspective. The program’s flexible format had allowed me to balance my professional responsibilities with learning, and the transition back to work felt seamless yet profound. Armed with the... View Details

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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

during, and after your course. Ask questions, collaborate, give feedback, and share experiences and expertise across industries to grow or transition your career. You’ll build lasting connections that support you wherever life takes you... View Details

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Kendall Brinker

the perfect transition to the case method, "which really recruited me to HBS," she says. "I originally thought I would learn a lot of models, but instead, HBS emphasizes the thought skills you need as a manager. Through the... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis

perspective, Y Combinator is about one word: focus. We strip a company down to its core. What service or product are you providing? How are you getting those customers? And are there enough of those customers? When I was in Chicago and making a View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Launches Alumni Survey

marking a reunion year, plus alumni who are two years out — a critical time of transition for many grads. The initial survey will be sent to the 2003 MBA reunion classes. It is designed to take about twenty minutes to complete, and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

hope is that my perspective will nonetheless provide some guidance for people working in this evolving field to understand the true complexity of corporate boards. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52400 Explaining the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Tedde Tsang

Fillmore. Geary. Stockton. Mission. Polk. Van Ness. The names of San Francisco's bus lines still come easily to my mind more than half a decade after working at the city's transit agency. In my time there, I religiously rode all 66 bus... View Details

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

digitally enabled open platforms. I go on to argue that the competitive success of open platforms against closed platforms gave rise to the "vertical-to-horizontal" transition in the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

years, the founder/owner has scaled down his involvement in the day-to-day operations, leading to a number of operational and financial issues, including variable food quality and deficient wait staff service. The restaurant is about to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Role as a Nonprofit Board Member, and Transitions and Transformations. This spring, a fourth was launched: Charting Your Course, which focused on women reentering the workforce after raising a family. The committee urges the School to... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

situations. You are marching toward a clear goal but with no real clear path,” he adds. “I think that skill set has transitioned well to the world of entrepreneurship.” Tseng says the company is on track for continued rapid growth in... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

entities across sectors to refine them and arrive at meaningful and useful standards. Besides holding companies accountable, we also have to help them as they transition to pursuing social objectives alongside financial ones. Too few... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

January 2018
Case

Scaling Swagbucks (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In early 2014, Chuck Davis (HBS '86) has joined Swagbucks as its first professional CEO to scale a successful and profitable brand promotion and consumer research business. Davis came into the job while serving as a venture partner at TCV, a growth stage VC firm,... View Details

Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry

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July 2019 (Revised October 2022)
Case

Jai Vakeel Foundation: Addressing Disability

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Kairavi Dey

Jai Vakeel, a nonprofit organization in India, serves individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID), those with an IQ below 70. The organization was founded by the parents of a child with Down Syndrome, and they (and their next generation) steadily built the... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Health Care and Treatment; India

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