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04 Dec 2018
Video

What Inspires You in Your Work?

Jan 07 2013
Testimonial

GMP: Applying New Skills

Jan 09 2013
Testimonial

GMP: Lasting Impressions

Feb 18 2016
Short Film

A Transformative Experience

November 2011
Case

WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan

By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Rachel Shelton

A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details

Keywords: Empowerment; Middle Management; Human Resource Management; Compensation; Incentives; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Entrepreneurship; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; California

13 Mar 2025
Blog Post

Launching Leaders: HBS's New Initiative Fuels First-Generation and Low-Income Student Success

to recognize what we’ve done and try to erase any barriers that we may still have. We are a more diverse community than people think, in the traditional ways of race and gender but also diverse in ideologies and backgrounds. This type of View Details

26 Apr 2023
Video

Harvard MS/MBA Information Session and Virtual Q&A

2019
Interviews

Interview with Maureen Scully on "Mobilizing Privileged Allies"

September 2019 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Dove and Real Beauty: Building a Brand with Purpose

By: Mark R. Kramer, Myriam Sidibe and Gunjan Veda

Unilever subsidiary Dove soap became a "brand with a purpose" and created shared value when the company decided to launch a Campaign for Real Beauty to combat the artificial media-driven stereotype of female beauty that causes appearance anxiety in women and girls... View Details

Keywords: Stereotype; Body Image; Female; Self-Esteem; Brands and Branding; Mission and Purpose; Advertising Campaigns; Gender; Resource Allocation

21 Jan 2009
Working Paper Summaries

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln

March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon

Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Mission and Purpose; Performance Efficiency; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Research; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Kenya

9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018

HBX Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018 View Details

January 2018
Case

Flying into the Future: HondaJet

By: Gary P. Pisano and Jesse Shulman

This cases examine Honda’s diversification into the light jet market. In 1985, Honda initiated a secret program to develop a small jet. Over the years, the program had many ups and downs (it was almost canceled several times). Then, a breakthrough in the configuration... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Air Transportation Industry

2011
Case

Wrapitup

By: W. Earl Sasser

A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Governance Controls; Revenue; Employee Relationship Management; Planning; Customer Satisfaction; Problems and Challenges; Profit; Change Management; Compensation and Benefits; Leadership Style; Service Industry; California

Channing Spencer is a Doctoral Candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard. She is also an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS).

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March 1980 (Revised September 1982)
Case

Parker Brothers (B)

Describes the recall program designed by Parker Brothers following the death of two children, which may have been related to a new product. View Details

Keywords: Safety; Risk Management; Product; Consumer Products Industry