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- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
Source: rawpixel Many jobs involve completing a series of sequential, independent, prearranged tasks. Physicians see patients; teachers grade papers; insurance agents process stacks of claims. In the interest of productivity, some View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
It all started with a cold LinkedIn mail to Aaron Gailmor, the founder of Brass Roots, an early-stage startup that I happened upon while tracking Expo West 2019 (World's largest natural, organic and healthy products event) with a... View Details
- November 2007
- Case
Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Translating innovative ideas form the clinician to the patient remains a major problem in the field of medicine. Dr. John Parrish and colleagues created an organization (CIMIT) that brings the technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Resource Allocation; Alliances; Research and Development; Health Industry; Health Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)." Harvard Business School Case 608-036, November 2007.
- 05 Nov 2020
- News
Don’t Get Blindsided by Your Blind Spots
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
company that resorted to inhumane means of reducing its workforce, according to a trio of case studies co-written by Cynthia Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Ashley Whillans, assistant professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
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HBS - The year in Review
teaching methodology, but also for the creation of Harvard Business Publishing’s flagship publication, Harvard Business Review (HBR). For the past century, HBR has been required reading in executive suites around the world and a... View Details
- Summer 2021
- Article
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016
By: Muhammad H. Zaman and Tarun Khanna
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla towards producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in Cipla’s corporate archives, the Creating Emerging Markets database, and... View Details
Keywords: Cipla; Pharmaceuticals; Drug Quality; Generics; Quality; Standards; Information Technology; Cost; Organizational Culture; Business History; Pharmaceutical Industry; India
Zaman, Muhammad H., and Tarun Khanna. "The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016." Business History Review 95, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 249–274.
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
give greater emphasis to values in the company’s credo supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Evidence cited in support of the changes included: Eighty-one percent of employees would consider leaving their current organization... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms
and strategic acumen to compete in the digital world through a combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a diverse global network, and a capstone project that applies the program’s learnings. 6 months, 5-6... View Details
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A Multi-country Test of Brief Reappraisal Interventions on Emotions During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg, Charles Dorison, Jeremy Miller, Jennifer Lerner and James Gross
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing negative emotions and decreasing positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes may have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we will examine the impact of... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Emotion Regulation; Reappraisal; Interventions; Health Pandemics; Emotions; Global Range
Wang, Ke, Amit Goldenberg, Charles Dorison, Jeremy Miller, Jennifer Lerner, and James Gross. "A Multi-country Test of Brief Reappraisal Interventions on Emotions During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Nature Human Behaviour 5, no. 8 (August 2021): 1089–1110.
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by March 12th $15,000 (four installments of $3,750) Credential New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and strategic acumen to compete in the digital View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct investment is defined by ownership and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
the United States. What has driven its success? How can it be sustained? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706417 John Mackey and Whole Foods Market Harvard Business School Case 807-111 Traces the history of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
Sean Silverthorne: What organizations are included in "social enterprise," and why do you define it in the way that you do? Herman "Dutch" Leonard: We include as a "social enterprise" any View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
for cadavers in medical training, in medical research, and for the development of new medical devices. Given the sometimes uneasy feelings around the topic, it's easy to understand how such entrepreneurial organizations (both for-profit... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
Sweden has long seemed like a social-welfare capitalist dream come true, where companies and labor unions collaborate in harmony with government support. Swedish citizens are among the wealthiest in the world, and they enjoy publicly provided View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
turning over essential but non-core activities like cloud storage to organizations with whom they compete in other domains. The pandemic has reminded all of us of our interdependencies across sectors. Without basic infrastructure—public... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Recruiting
Employment Data Entrepreneurship Employment Data Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Class of 2024 Career Data Internship Data Joining a Start-up A start-up is defined here as an organization that is still private and 10 years of age or... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
describes its co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an industry in the midst of dramatic structural change; and asks whether a16z's success to date has been due to its novel organization structure. a16z's 22... View Details