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  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the firm's "culture" or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2020
  • Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Strategy; Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Demographics; Age; Gender; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Leadership Style; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Education Industry; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • August 2024 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Novo Nordisk Foundation

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
In 2024, Novo Nordisk A/S was one of the most profitable firms in the world, thanks largely to just two GLP-1-based drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Unusually, this incredibly profitable firm was controlled not by individual private shareholders, but by a non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Diabetes; Obesity; Foundation; Non-profit Management; Profit; Corporate Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Expansion; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Denmark; Europe
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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • March 2022
    • Case

    BTS & ARMY

    By: Doug J. Chung and Kay R. Koo
    The South Korean K-pop band, BTS, is shattering linguistic boundaries and reshaping the global music industry. BTS became the first band in Billboard history to simultaneously top the Billboard Artist 100, Billboard Hot 100, and Billboard 200; and the sixth act to have... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment; Music Entertainment; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Enterprise; Consumer Behavior; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • Web

    Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

    Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

    rated the productivity of workers on a seven-point scale from “unsatisfactory” to “excellent” in categories such as ability, cooperation, job knowledge, creativity, productivity, and quality of work. Hybrid is the right balance In all... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
    • Case

    The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

    By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko
    In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Curriculum and Courses; Executive Education; Social Entrepreneurship; National Security; Recruitment; Retention; Job Interviews; Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Retirement; Nonprofit Organizations; War; Education Industry; San Diego; Virginia
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    • November 2021
    • Case

    Steve Schwarzman on Dealmaking II: When They Hold All the Cards (A)

    By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
    Blackstone Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman, whom Forbes has called “Wall Street’s Greatest Dealmaker,” played a major role in the negotiations that transformed Blackstone from a fragile startup in 1985 with $400,000 in capital into a dominant... View Details
    Keywords: Dealmaking; Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Negotiation; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Conflict and Resolution; Problems and Challenges; Negotiation Tactics; Financial Services Industry
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    • 13 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 13, 2007

      Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors'... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 07 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

    recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting broader areas of the social science. Raiffa received the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Aug 2022
    • Book

    University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

    Today the United States is considered the world leader in higher education. Yet the country could risk losing that top spot, particularly with China opening some of the most innovative educational centers across the globe in recent years, says Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 23 Jan 2017
    • News

    Does Jazz Music Need Star Power?

    • Web

    HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

    Fuller , and HBS alumni practitioners like Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) Research-based and practical frameworks for scaling your venture successfully Opportunities to make connections with VCs and both founders... View Details
    • Web

    The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

    Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

      Christopher A. Bartlett

      Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). 

      As a practicing manager prior... View Details

      Keywords: consulting; health care; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; wine
      • May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
      • Case

      Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

      By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort
      Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States
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      Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

      “returnship” programs Search online, or tap your networking community, for more formal programs or coaching engagements that can reinforce your search with outside support and help. There are many reasons alumni seek flexible or project based work opportunities. You... View Details
      • 22 Feb 2018
      • Book

      The New History of American Capitalism

      questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. Its effort is to find new ways of exploring how institutions,... View Details
      Keywords: Manufacturing
      • September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
      • Case

      Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A)

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
      Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in Kenya. The organization's investment committee and its... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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