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- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Partnerships;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Change;
Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept." Harvard Business School Case 314-049, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- April 2013
- Article
Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World
By: Nava Ashraf
Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in...
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Ashraf, Nava. "Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 4 (April 2013): 119–125.
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
Research Methods Courses (4 courses) Students must take four research methods courses. Design of Field Research Methods (HBS 4070) Students must take three additional research methods courses from either behavioral sciences research...
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Rosabeth M. Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details
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accounting industry;
advertising;
airline;
apparel;
arts;
automobiles;
banking;
beauty products;
beverage;
biotechnology;
broadcasting;
chemical;
clothing;
communications;
computer;
consulting;
consumer products;
e-commerce industry;
education industry;
electrical equipment;
electronics;
entertainment;
fashion;
fast food;
federal government;
financial services;
food;
food processing;
grocery;
health care;
high technology;
hotels & motels;
industrial goods;
information;
information technology industry;
insurance industry;
internet;
legal services;
management consulting;
manufacturing;
medical supplies;
nonprofit industry;
oil & gas;
petroleum;
pharmaceuticals;
professional services;
publishing industry;
real estate;
recreation;
restaurant;
retail financial services;
retailing;
semiconductor;
soft drink;
software;
sports;
state government;
telecommunications;
textiles;
tourism;
toy;
transportation;
travel;
utilities;
wine
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Research Community - Doctoral
may lead. Students study business in motion, with all the variables operating at once and, like the companies they study, are not limited by traditional academic boundaries. Students acquire knowledge and research skills leading to mastery of a field of study and learn...
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- January 2024
- Case
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Decisions;
Business Earnings;
Profit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Values and Beliefs;
Mission and Purpose;
Competition;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
E-commerce;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Fashion Industry;
Spain;
Germany;
Italy;
Europe;
United States
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz, and María José Satrústegui. "ECOALF: Fashion for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 524-057, January 2024.
- October 2013 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Myomo: Getting Sales in Motion
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Shikhar Ghosh and Matthew Preble
In late 2012, the management team of Myomo, a startup which had designed a unique myoelectric arm brace for patients with dysfunctional arms, was deciding which of the three sales models the company had tested to pursue as its sales strategy going forward. Each model...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Marketing Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Startups;
Sales;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Health Industry
Cespedes, Frank V., Shikhar Ghosh, and Matthew Preble. "Myomo: Getting Sales in Motion." Harvard Business School Case 814-034, October 2013. (Revised April 2015.)
- February 2013
- Case
YouTube Channels
By: Sunil Gupta and Dharmishta Rood
In December 2011 YouTube launched a website redesign that made Channels the central focus of the site. This redesign was the company's first foray into a strategy designed to foster long-form user engagement. YouTube invested $100 million in 100 Channels, often created...
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Money is No Object: Testing The Endowment Effect in Exchange Goods
By: Dan Svirsky
We present a new experimental design to test whether the endowment effect exists for exchange goods, like money. We compare three groups to a baseline: one endowed with money, one endowed with chocolate coins, and one endowed with chocolate coins described as "tokens."...
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Svirsky, Dan. "Money is No Object: Testing The Endowment Effect in Exchange Goods." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (October 2014): 227–234.
- July 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Pacific Bell: Centrex Reengineering
Describes the redesign and rollout of the new order-fulfillment process for a flagship product at Pacific Bell. Pacific Bell is one of the Regional Bell Operating Companies comprised of seven regional business units. Rather than implement the new process, roles, and...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Information Technology;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Telecommunications Industry
Stoddard, Donna B., and Sirkka Jarvenpaa. "Pacific Bell: Centrex Reengineering." Harvard Business School Case 195-098, July 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail
By: Mukti Khaire
Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the collections shown in Fashion Weeks all over the world. Moda Operandi conveys the preorders to...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Channels;
Internet and the Web;
Design;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry
Khaire, Mukti. "Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail." Harvard Business School Case 812-040, October 2011. (Revised September 2014.)
- 22 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
- 2013
- Working Paper
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and Stephan Aier
We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover...
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Complexity;
Applications and Software;
Product Design;
Telecommunications Industry
Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and Stephan Aier. "Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-103, June 2013.
- September 28, 2021
- Article
12 Questions About Hybrid Work, Answered
By: Tsedal Neeley
As we move into the next phase of the pandemic, companies are grappling with whether and how to bring their employees back into the office after working from home extensively. According to multiple surveys, most people want a mix of in-person and remote work, and some...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Remote Work;
Transition;
Employees;
Job Design and Levels;
Organizational Structure
Neeley, Tsedal. "12 Questions About Hybrid Work, Answered." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 28, 2021).
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Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Teaching Questions for Class Discussions Teaching Quantitative Material Strategies and Tactics for Sensitive Topics Curriculum Innovation The case method has evolved so students may act as decision-makers in new engaging formats: Game Simulations Wintel Multimedia...
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- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of medical care and management...
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- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional...
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Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.
As Dean, building on... View Details
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accounting industry;
arts;
biotechnology;
emerging market private equity;
energy;
executive search;
financial services;
green technology;
health care;
high technology;
industrial goods;
information technology industry;
infrastructure industry;
investment banking industry;
legal services;
management consulting;
manufacturing;
oil & gas;
petroleum;
pharmaceuticals;
professional services
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Adi Sunderam & Eric Zwick OCT 2021 The authors develop models that speak to the goals and design of the government-introduced business lending and corporate bond purchase programs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to the...
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Summer Fellowships - MBA
expertise of the Social Enterprise Initiative. HBS General Summer Fellows Funds students joining both large and small organizations in a wide range of for-profit industries. Related Links How do scholarships work? Answers to your top questions about financial aid. “HBS...
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