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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Knowing Your Students Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your Students Planning a Class Session Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Poppy, which matched families that required occasional childcare with thoroughly vetted caregivers, was formulating plans for the Seattle-based seed-stage startup’s next phase of expansion. One option was to grow using the same View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

It was February of 2021. I had just joined the Zoom interview from the guest bedroom of our townhouse in Smyrna, Georgia, struggling to fight off the imposter syndrome that had lived rent-free in the back of my head since I had been invited to interview with Harvard... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

the paired founders discussed their business challenges and were told to provide advice about management and strategy to their partners. On the final day, the founders completed a list of changes they View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

A business plan predicated upon asking customers to adopt new priorities and behave differently from how they have in the past is an uphill death march through knee-deep mud. Instead of designing products... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • February 2023
  • Case

Enstitute

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar and Sarah Mehta
Shaila Ittycheria (MBA ’10) founded the nonprofit organization Enstitute, in 2012 in New York City. Determined to challenge the status quo within higher education, Shaila and her cofounder sought to expand opportunities for talented young people by placing them in... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Education Industry; Employment Industry; United States
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  • 30 May 2024
  • News

How to Have Effective Conversations

every single discussion is made up of different kinds of conversations. And in general, those conversations fall into one of three buckets. There's these Practical Conversations, where we're talking about plans or we're solving problems.... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

resources. But for other types of tasks, cultural heterogeneity had no effect on creative performance. The research is relevant to business practitioners because creating a multicultural workplace is often touted as a strategy to foster... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

players, poor customer service, and regional variations in quality of care. "By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry," says Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of Harvard Business School's recently formed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • October 1978 (Revised March 1987)
  • Background Note

Note on Market Definition and Segmentation

Outlines the problems involved in defining "markets" for purposes of 1) developing competitive strategies, 2) measuring market share, and 3) evaluating the extent of competition. The primary focus is on strategic planning--specifically, the questions of delimiting the... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Markets; Segmentation
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  • Career Coach

Carole Carlson

Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
  • April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition

E-Loan is an online mortgage lender that acquired an auto-lending arm in August of 1999. This case examines E-Loan's purchase of CarFinance.com and highlights E-Loan's strategy-setting process. In addition, the case explores business development as a strategic process... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • March 1986 (Revised November 1990)
  • Case

Valerie Morgan

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Presents interviews and conversations with a woman who recently started a publishing house. Primarily concerns her immediate future regarding harvesting options: IPO, sell out, step up to chairman, venture capital, etc. Also deals with the excitement and thrill of... View Details
Keywords: Interactive Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Cash; Initial Public Offering; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Publishing Industry
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  • 16 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

generics like ibuprofen. A middle-aged man needs heart medication to avoid another attack. He’s more likely to take his pills regularly if his plan doesn’t have a copay for the prescription. Yet, even with a copay, he’s arguably much... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail
  • Web

HBR Classics - Alumni

HBR CLASSICS Through the years, a number of Harvard Business Review articles written by Harvard Business School faculty and others have risen to “classics” status – articles that are so groundbreaking in... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies, complicating matters for View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

(or planned to rely) exclusively on noncommercial sources of funding (like charitable donations and foundational grants) to five for projects that relied exclusively on commercial revenue—retail sales, for example. For female founders,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

History, Business Law NJ Genny Allard Bergen County Technical School, Teterboro Teterboro, NJ Subjects: Introduction to Law and Justice, Constitutional Law NJ George Alvarez Bergenfield High School Bergenfield, NJ Subjects: US History I... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

It’s one thing to look at the entertainment business from an executive’s point of view. It’s quite another to see it through the eyes of a professional basketball player, supermodel, or actress. That mix of perspectives is exactly what... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education