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- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
now served and begin to scale back from those areas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-035 Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices Zurich Insurance was undergoing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
be implemented to foster the desired culture. Some key things to consider when selecting the initial practice are that: It should be a concrete, actionable practice that team members can start doing immediately, rather than a high-level... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bank after a distinguished career as a Wall Street investment banker. "I wanted a program that would stimulate their thinking and make them aware of different approaches to problem solving and implementation of alternative courses of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
programs at 12 centers across the country, creating more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and 12,000 jobs. “Our goal has been to leverage the program through government organizations, given their vast resources and existing infrastructure to support our program,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
changes. As an illustration, when color television was invented, nobody would buy color TVs because no network was broadcasting in color. And networks would not broadcast in color because nobody owned color televisions. It took David Sarnoff, whose company RCA acquired... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- Web
Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
implement the public sector reforms that were being proposed by Tony Blair’s Labor government. The challenge is trying to explain to people why they should do things differently in a deeply institutionalized system—a lot like today’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities
“Running a city is one of the most complex jobs on the planet. A mayor is responsible for overseeing unwieldy bureaucracies, managing budgets, making policy, implementing programs, bringing legislators together, harnessing technology,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Another First
of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the Air Force Academy, she said she plans to build on programs implemented by her predecessor to deal with sexual harassment and allegations of religious intolerance. View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we generate helps managers make the best... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability
After nearly two years of review and deliberation about the structure and content of the MBA required curriculum, in February Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program Chair W. Carl Kester announced several changes that will be implemented... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Just Rewards
Michael Darrington (PMD 27, 1974) believes in putting people first. As CEO of Greggs, which he led for 24 years to become the United Kingdom’s baking industry leader and in previous positions where he oversaw strategic turnarounds. He has consistently View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education leaders, a report was issued that highlighted three kinds of actions where business "champions," working alongside educators, could most add value: advocating policies that enable education innovation; scaling up innovations with positive, proven results; and... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Organization to implement the strategy in Boston. She and her colleagues faced a number of challenges in transferring the strategy, with some questioning whether the strategy was appropriate for the Boston marketplace. The project was at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
Photo credit: Tesla Photo credit: Tesla Four years into his tenure as Tesla’s CFO, Zachary Kirkhorn (MBA 2013) continues to draw notice for his quiet, effective ability to implement CEO Elon Musk’s vision to scale Tesla into the world’s largest carmaker. As reported in... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Decades in investment banking and a lifelong love of the outdoors set Pat Coady (MBA 1966) on the path toward conservation financing. What was a small sector in the early 1990s, when he led the US delegation for the creation and View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
traditional governance system and the U.S.-inspired committee system. Believing that Sumida's future was limited if it followed the status quo, Yawata presses ahead with his decision to adopt the U.S. model. The case details the behind-the-scenes dynamics of View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
complex and multiple contingencies to reflect the factors that caused a particular transaction to be either fast or time-consuming to process. Q: What is the relationship between TDABC and enterprise resource planning? A: We probably could not have View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 28 Sep 2016
- Webinars: Career
5 Happiness Hacks That Drive Productivity, Sales, and Creativity
According to Harvard Business Review, happy people are 37% more productive, have 31% higher sales, and are three times more creative than their peers. In this webinar, Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) provides models to create lasting happiness including building diverse... View Details
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Leading in the Classroom - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class The extensive preparation carried out by case method instructors prior to a class session culminates in the real-time discussion of the case. Implementing the teaching plan involves challenges... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
wasn't the issue—the division still had the superior technology overall. Nor was talent a problem—Becton Dickinson continued to retain the skilled engineers that had made it the leader in its field. The organization's design didn't seem to be the problem, either—the... View Details