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L'autodiscipline en guise de régulation. La stratégie patronale à l'heure de la surchauffe économique en Suisse autour de 1960
By: Sabine Pitteloud
Die Strategie der Unternehmensverbände zur Bekämpfung der konjunkturellen «Überhitzung» um 1960 Sabine Pitteloud interessiert sich für den Versuch, privatwirtschaftliche Antworten auf die Teuerung der 1960er-Jahre zu finden. Arbeitgeber und Gewerkschaften waren sich... View Details
Keywords: Inflation; Regulation; Business & Government Relations; Inflation and Deflation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Labor Unions; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "L'autodiscipline en guise de régulation. La stratégie patronale à l'heure de la surchauffe économique en Suisse autour de 1960." Traverse: Zeitschrift für Geschichte = Revue d'histoire 24, no. 3 (2017).
- April 2021
- Case
Codecademy: Where to Next?
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman
In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Business Model; Change Management; Venture Capital; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Teams; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Max Mailman, and Sarah Ascherman. "Codecademy: Where to Next?" Harvard Business School Case 821-093, April 2021.
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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
listing in the Career Hub for a Leadership Fellow opportunity at Boston Medical Center. Alastair Bell, MD (HBS MBA 2006), Executive VP of Strategy and COO for BMC Health System, notes, “From our standpoint, Leadership Fellows is a way of... View Details
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Archival Collections - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- Other Presentation
Introduction to Value Based Health Care Delivery
This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Introduction to Value Based Health Care Delivery." Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, October 11, 2012.
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Final Project We talk to people to achieve success in every aspect of View Details
- October 2017
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Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition
By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
Pisano, Gary P. "Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition." Industrial and Corporate Change 26, no. 5 (October 2017): 747–762.
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
of the role will be dedicated to special projects assigned by the CEO or the VP of Strategy and Programming around investment strategy for the foundation, plus some organizational/operational development for... View Details
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Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board , Tierney has placed himself squarely in the midst of this moment. With a deep understanding of the School’s efforts to apply innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s
By: Grace Ballor
Many products—from consumer electronics to machinery to children’s toys—bear the CE Mark, the symbol of conformity to the ‘essential requirements’ of European standards governed by the process of CE Marking. This working paper traces the development of the system of... View Details
Keywords: Business And Government; Market Liberalization; Standards; Markets; Trade; Integration; Business History; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Europe; European Union
Ballor, Grace. "The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-142, June 2021.
- 2005
- Book
Fit In Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor, The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life
By: Blythe J. McGarvie
While studying and practicing business effectiveness, leadership expert Blythe McGarvie uncovered a vital lesson: successful leaders are systems thinkers. Two forces power business systems: integration (Fit In) and transformation (Stand Out). By mastering the FISO... View Details
- 2007
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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
Khurana, Rakesh. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. (Winner of Association of American Publishers Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management. Winner of Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship for the book which makes an outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work presented by American Sociological Association.)
- April 2018 (Revised February 2019)
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Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
When digital distribution becomes an option for an analog industry, the effects on incumbents can be devastating. Is podcasting the beginning of the end of radio? Can it do what streaming video did to television and websites did to print? Two former public radio... View Details
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup." Harvard Business School Case 918-413, April 2018. (Revised February 2019.)
- October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
- Teaching Note
Intel: Strategic Decisions in Locating a New Assembly and Test Plant (A) and (B)
By: Juan Alcácer
The case is used in Harvard Business School's (HBS) elective course "Competing Globally" as the first case in the third module (see "Competing Globally: Course Note for Instructors," HBS No. 713-422). As the first case in the module, it introduces the framework to... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework
By: Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how historical models of change can contribute to theory and research on the competitive advantage of firms during periods of rapid innovation. Focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Dynamic Capabilities; Innovation; Temporality; Context; Microfoundations; Business History; Competitive Advantage; Change; Innovation and Invention
Jones, Geoffrey, and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-052, December 2016.
- March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Supplement
Equitas Microfinance (C): Advent of Regulation
By: V.G. Narayanan, V. Kasturi Rangan and Vidhya Muthuram
Keywords: Business Model; For-profit Firms; Micro Finance; Growth And Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Social Enterprise; India
Narayanan, V.G., V. Kasturi Rangan, and Vidhya Muthuram. "Equitas Microfinance (C): Advent of Regulation." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-006, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and giving them resources to make the less-structured career search less intimidating. Third, bringing the message that businesses can be a force for social good to the broader student body at HBS, even those who don't consider themselves... View Details
- June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Driving Towards a Disruption?
By: Willy Shih and William Noble
As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston
Shih, Willy, and William Noble. "Driving Towards a Disruption?" Harvard Business School Case 612-101, June 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
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Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses
By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
The article discusses skills microentrepreneurs need to manage and expand their businesses. After interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Microfinance; Cost Management; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Accounting; Opportunities
Datar, Srikant M., Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas. "Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses." Strategic Finance 91, no. 5 (November 2009).
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?
By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau
At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details
Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden
Spar, Debora L., Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao, and Julia Comeau. "H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?" Harvard Business School Case 324-101, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)