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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
efforts to reorganize health care delivery and engage in meaningful policy reform. The multiplier effects of the curriculum are already evident in our experiences over the past five years. Curriculum on Value-Based Health Care Delivery:... View Details
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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care
Student Activities Competitions & Challenges Business plan challenges and case competitions offer an engaging way to collaborate with students from within HBS and from other schools to develop presentation/pitch skills, work with faculty,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
expand their knowledge or capabilities? A: If you know the exact specific behaviors you want, stretch goals may be just fine. But, if you want employees to engage in other pro-social behaviors (e.g., helping others in the organization)... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2023
Ask Me Anything Chat with a 2+2 Alum
Join current Harvard Business School MBA students for an Ask Me Anything about the 2+2 program. This session will give you the opportunity to engage with students who have already been where you are and benefitted from all the 2+2 program... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
all sectors have a range of opportunities for involvement in social enterprise at HBS, through academics, careers, community, and the New Venture Competition. Faculty members engage in social enterprise research, teaching, case... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
lawyer and to be able to engage with their lawyers in deciding how to proceed. Q: Just as managers have to become more learned about the law, you say that lawyers must become more business savvy. What is the lawyer's role in all this? A:... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
exacerbate challenges of institutional voids in emerging and developing economies. Global Initiative The Global Initiative builds on a legacy of global engagement by supporting faculty, students, and alumni in their work, and encouraging... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees
business. The program has also given us access to a wide range of biotech entrepreneurs, providing us with a comprehensive understanding of the industry and its opportunities. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? The highlight of my time at HBS... View Details
- 17 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day
geographical locations in the pursuit of academic excellence. Professor Fubini led the discussion with the same level of rigor and high expectations that he maintains in any Harvard Business School class. Described by parents as "inquisitive, inclusive, and... View Details
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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online
determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll engage in a new activity every three to five minutes and apply your knowledge through polls, quizzes, and problem-solving exercises... View Details
- 12 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
- July–August 2013
- Article
Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement
By: Michel Anteby
Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details
Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry
Anteby, Michel. "Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement." Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 1277–1290.
- January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Lean Forward Media
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Lean Forward Media." Harvard Business School Case 805-063, January 2005. (Revised August 2006.)
- April 2001 (Revised July 2002)
- Case
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (A)
By: Susan M. Fournier, Kerry Herman, Laura Winig and Andrea Carol Wojnicki
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), a branded and integrated content and media company dedicated to "elevating the role of the homemaker," went public on October 19, 1999, creating a company with a market value of $1.73 billion, and a stake for Stewart worth $1.2... View Details
Keywords: Management; Media; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Brands and Branding; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Fournier, Susan M., Kerry Herman, Laura Winig, and Andrea Carol Wojnicki. "Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (A)." Harvard Business School Case 501-080, April 2001. (Revised July 2002.)
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
- 2022
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Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022.
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
employed change strategies that focused on both commitment and performance. As ASDA's CEO, Archie Norman, tells it, the new leader has to set a general direction, but must listen and engage people to identify and solve problems. Top-down... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
Although Carol was a scientist by background, along with many of the leaders she hired, it had not been her vision that started the unit. She focused intensely on the mission and vision for the venture, engaging organizational consultants... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
would be more than happy to engage in mutual give-and-take during his negotiations, he often has trouble doing so with his contractors and customers. Some are clearly untrustworthy or entirely self-interested. Such negotiators are likely... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
win over suspicious receivers. Van Swol dubbed this "the Pinocchio effect." "Just like Pinocchio's nose, the number of words grew along with the lie," she says. Allocators who engaged in deception by omission, on the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel