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Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
thinking, rapid iteration, and learning from success and failure. You will focus on addressing one of your organization's innovation challenges—and return to work ready to foster the innovations that will drive your organization's competitive advantage and growth. This... View Details
- 21 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.
Reconstruing involves broadening the perceived scope of the situation, either by looking back at a longer history, forward at a longer time horizon, or by contextualizing it more broadly. For instance, this might involve looking at an... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
worked at Kenya Commercial Bank, one of the largest banks in the country, touring different divisions within the bank. There, I got to see and understand what corporate life was like and compare it with my previous experience working at... View Details
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Aligning Strategy and Sales
based on customer profitability Build and nurture the best sales talent and go-to-market approach for each product or segment Translate your corporate strategy into sales strategies, tasks, and processes Build a high-impact sales team and... View Details
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PLD Module 5
company build and sustain a competitive advantage. You will emerge with the leadership skills and confidence to make high-level decisions that support your organization's financial needs, legal requirements, ethical obligations, and View Details
- 21 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies
- May 2008 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Chi Mei Optoelectronics
By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Ho Howard Yu
Chi Mei is a Taiwanese industrial group that makes a major diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Supply Chain; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China; South Korea; Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Chintay Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang, and Ho Howard Yu. "Chi Mei Optoelectronics." Harvard Business School Case 608-123, May 2008. (Revised December 2010.)
Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty
Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:
1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details
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Leading Global Businesses
Global executives, such as CEOs, presidents, CFOs, and corporate staff officers leading global businesses Global marketing executives running global product or marketing groups Regional executives or country heads preparing for greater... View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Binder Amgen, 1988–2000 Stephen Birch Kennecott Copper, 1915–1933 Clarence Birdseye General Seafood's Company, 1924–1929 William Blackie Caterpillar Tractor Company, 1963–1977 Harold Blancke Celanese Corporation of America, 1946–1966... View Details
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Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
Summary As the focus on corporate governance and oversight has grown, so has the complexity of regulatory challenges facing audit committees. This corporate governance strategy program explores the best... View Details
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
to corporate success on a more strategic and senior level. Gain a new ability to think strategically, seize growth opportunities, and compete successfully both within the region and globally Foster the innovations that will improve your... View Details
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Compensation Committees
Corporate Director Certificate. Learn More Key Benefits This executive compensation training program will enable you and your committee to contribute more effectively to long-term performance, corporate... View Details
- March 2010
- Article
The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930
By: Tom Nicholas
Why did independent inventors account for over half of US patents by 1930 and more than three times the number granted to R&D firms? Using new data on patents and historical patent citations, I show that independents supplied high quality innovations to a... View Details
Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Urban Scope; Independent Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930." Journal of Economic History 70, no. 1 (March 2010): 57–82.
- Research Summary
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
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Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)
The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
increases with increased country heterogeneity. The net effect is that the size of corporate headquarters expands as MNC geographic scope increases. The notion of "administrative heritage" is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- February 2010 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
International Agribusiness in China: Charoen Pokphand Group
By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Tracy Manty and Yi Kwan Chu
The world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin Chearavanont is how CP can balance its... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; SWOT Analysis; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Rural Scope; Agribusiness; Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
Kirby, William C., Michael Shih-ta Chen, Tracy Manty, and Yi Kwan Chu. "International Agribusiness in China: Charoen Pokphand Group." Harvard Business School Case 910-418, February 2010. (Revised November 2011.)
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
that penniless immigrant taught himself to lead a major corporation through some of the toughest challenges in the history of business. This is an inspiring biography that will enthrall anyone who cares about technology or leadership.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne