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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal ENROLL NOW No application... View Details

Willy C. Shih

Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration. He is part of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programs. His expertise is in manufacturing, product... View Details

Keywords: aerospace; automotive; biotechnology; communications; computer; digital imaging; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; manufacturing; retailing; semiconductor

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and View Details

06 Mar 2018
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A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

diversity of professional experiences and personal stories created a great environment for learning and helped me expand my network.” Now a senior partner and the View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

Illustration by VectorStock As a doctoral student at HBS, Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury identified a little-studied phenomenon in innovation: Managers from emerging markets who migrated to the United States for jobs at multinational... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

while full integration into stock valuation and engagement are considered more beneficial, but they are all practiced with equal frequency. Current practices of different ESG... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

Professor James K. Sebenius, examines the change process through a negotiating lens. The dramatized negotiation involves interactions between a manager responsible for a critical project View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
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Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal

Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Netherlands

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11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Management Proceedings Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations By: Reiche, B.S., T.B. Neeley, and N. Overmeyer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2008
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From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago

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11 Mar 2014
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Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury; Technology

10 Aug 2020
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HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

Boston, initially stocked with 30 books each, and garner used and new book donations to promote a continual exchange of books. After establishing a process for exchanging books... View Details

17 Apr 2024
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New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

individual cow health and behavior, empowering farmers and providing peace of mind as they make better high-value livestock management decisions on breeding, disease, View Details

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

memory that the product was safe to drink. Q: What can any manager or business leader take away from reading Driven? A: All managers and business leaders need to get things... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

May 2013
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Bridgewater Associates

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heidi K. Gardner

Bridgewater Associates was the world's largest hedge fund with approximately $120 billion in assets under management in mid-2012, and its leaders attribute its record-beating performance to the firm's culture of "radical transparency." The founder, Ray Dalio, was... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance; Leadership Style; Investment; Financial Services Industry

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01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

fully answered in advance. "Executives from each side may have different assumptions about which strategy and management practices will be best for the new company," Beer says.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

10 Jun 2022
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New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business View Details

March 2003 (Revised July 2004)
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Sustainable Development at Shell (B)

The case describes the complex and challenging process by which social and environmental concerns are integrated into the existing strategy of a large, multinational firm. This case focuses on a specific business within Shell Chemicals, the Close Looped Cleaning... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry

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