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  • Research Summary

Reinvention and “Frame Flexibility”

By: Ryan L. Raffaelli

Adopting a radical innovation creates pressure for leaders to reframe their mental models while they also sustain their organization's existing capabilities and product category variants. Yet at key junctures in a product class and during technological change, a... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diffusion Processes; Technology Adoption; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Emotions
  • June 2021
  • Supplement

Linda Oubré at Whittier College (B)

By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown
The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County, California,... View Details
Keywords: Women And Leadership; Racial Disparity; Higher Education; Education; Diversity; Race; Change Management; Gender; Los Angeles; California; United States
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  • 10 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

underlying theoretical concept to every case (whether that’s in finance, accounting, operations management or leadership), the focus of the class discussion is on the application View Details
  • 20 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

our classes seemed to be participating less," says Cuddy, who teaches the MBA elective Power and Influence. "Some of the women exhibited body language associated with low power, so we wondered if... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • TeachingInterests

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Effective Strategic Philanthropy

By: Brian L. Trelstad
Non-profit organizations and social enterprises play an important role in every country in the world: as laboratories for social innovation, as the delivery system for critical goods and services at scale, as the stewards of our cultural heritage, and as advocates for... View Details
  • August 2016
  • Case

VMD Medical Imaging Center

By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
VMD Medical Imaging Center, a local independent provider of medical imaging services, is facing some important challenges. Despite efficiency improvements and cost cutting initiatives carried out over the past few years, their profitability is shrinking; their prices... View Details
Keywords: Costing; Death Spiral; Transfer Pricing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Competitive Strategy; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment

By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Foreign Direct Investment; Geographic Location; Supply and Industry; Vertical Integration
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Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Case Method in Practice Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Play Video Chris Christensen described case method teaching as "the art View Details
  • October 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rock Health

By: Robert F. Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
Rock Health was a San Francisco–based nonprofit organization offering accelerator services to spur innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The company was the creation of Halle Tecco (HBS '11) and her HBS classmate Nate Gross (HBS '11), who met... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Incubation; Healthcare Technology; Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Startups; Health Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
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Student Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Student Performance Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment & Feedback Judging Success Student Performance Instructor Performance Sample Class Student performance in a case method... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

Dominika has experience teaching graduate-level courses, e.g., HBS MBA course Driving Profitable Growth with Prof. Gary Pisano, as well as undergraduate-level courses, e.g., Harvard College course Men, Women, and Work with Prof. Mary Brinton. Dominika also oversaw and... View Details
  • 22 May 2019
  • Blog Post

What is FIELD Global Immersion?

meet in person with their GP and local consumers. To maximize the experience, students are asked to travel to a city and country in which they have no significant prior work, travel or life experience. See members of the View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Organizational Behavior

Each of us maintains a set of beliefs and general assumptions about humans and their behavior, and those assumptions form the foundation for our beliefs about what motivates individuals; about how individuals make decisions; and about the ways in which the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Motivation And Incentives; Decision-making; Culture
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

He didn’t hire acolytes. I first met him in 1981, after he visited the class of the late HBS professor Richard Vancil, not long after he had become CEO. As we left class, he was in deep discussion with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Feature Importance Disparities for Data Bias Investigations

By: Peter W. Chang, Leor Fishman and Seth Neel
It is widely held that one cause of downstream bias in classifiers is bias present in the training data. Rectifying such biases may involve context-dependent interventions such as training separate models on subgroups, removing features with bias in the collection... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Fine Harvest Restaurant Group

By: Clara X. Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
Keywords: Incentive Systems; Relative Performance Evaluation; Restaurant Industry; Accounting; Economics; Human Resources; Measurement and Metrics; Labor; Performance; Salesforce Management; Retail Industry; North and Central America
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FAQs - Alumni

confirmation email or contact alumni@hbs.edu . When registration is open, the cancellation policy will be listed in the confirmation email and on your class page at reunions.hbs.edu . Please note: cancellation and refund requests will not... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • May 2009
  • Case

Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education

By: Allen S. Grossman and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Montgomery County Business Roundtable for Education (MCBRE) was a business-public education partnership with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) that promoted cross-sector knowledge sharing and academic excellence. Its suite of core student programs, such as “720,”... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; United States
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Program Requirements - Doctoral

standing, doctoral students are expected to maintain a B grade point average. Teaching Requirement Students are required to complete a teaching engagement of one full academic term that includes at least 8 hours, or 3 View Details