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Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual
Summary Today's organizations need men and women who can lead with courage and conviction through challenging times and toward worthy, positive change. Each session of this live online program will explore the tools, behaviors, insights,...
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- 22 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy
- 1 PM – 2:15 PM EDT, 27 Oct 2020
- Virtual Programming
The Role of American Business Leaders in a Challenging Election Season
Amidst a pandemic, economic challenges, and social, racial, and political turmoil, the upcoming US presidential election has the potential to calm fears and help restore order at home and around the world--or to ignite a new wave of discord and dissent. In this...
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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses—certain to be a driver of this century's new economy—demand new management paradigms. For a core group of HBS...
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- Teaching
Overview
Through the Tuck School's MBA and executive education programs, VG offers cutting-edge ideas for people who are leading organizations and those who are preparing to do so. VG's stimulating, thought-provoking style has helped to make Tuck one of the top business schools...
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- July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud
By: Dylan Minor and David Yoffie
Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign its business model. While the firm has been growing rapidly since the merger of Odesk and eLance, the newly combined firm continues to face problems of...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Platform;
Platform Businesses;
Technology;
Business Model;
Digital Platforms;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Labor
Minor, Dylan, and David Yoffie. "Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud." Harvard Business School Case 718-402, July 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Supplement
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2009, Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco's fortunes had been reversed. His fiscal policy that had come under attack just a year ago had been used to finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-020, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- June 1996
- Case
Armscor: Life After Apartheid?
After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms company, which has been a pillar of the apartheid regime. Complicating matters is the fact that the arms industry was...
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Values and Beliefs;
Competitive Advantage;
State Ownership;
Government Administration;
Business and Government Relations;
Public Administration Industry;
South Africa
Enright, Michael J., Stephan Boden, and Benjamin Smith. "Armscor: Life After Apartheid?" Harvard Business School Case 796-186, June 1996.
- 07 Nov 2021
- News
Kominers’s Conundrums: Looping Letters in a Narrative Arc
- 28 Jun 2021
- News
Earning Your Team’s Trust
- 08 Jan 2013
- News
Richest Universities Are Too Quiet on Sustainable Investing
- 05 Sep 2016
- News
3 Reasons Why Trump Needs to Start an Advertising Blitz
- 23 Feb 2016
- News
We Asked Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Teaching Interest
Overview
I served as a Teaching Fellow for the Applied Business Analytics second-year MBA course. This course sought to teach MBA students how businesses can improve their strategic decisions using statistics and machine learning techniques. (e.g., regression models, random...
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Mind Your Money
Morgan Housel and Doug Boneparth discuss how yelling "fire" in a crowded Twitter thread can lead to a crisis, why individuals always feel gloomy about their personal finances, and what the layoff wave in tech means for the industry's... View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
any kind of change. "Are Nadella and Microsoft the exception to the rule?" Exhibit A is CEO Satya Nadella, who is credited with leading the reshaping of Microsoft’s culture. In 2014, he found an organization that, among other things, had...
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by James Heskett
- Teaching Interest
Marketing Strategies for Profitable Growth—China
By: John A. Deighton
Maintaining quality standards and sustaining profitable growth in China's rapidly evolving marketplace requires powerful marketing strategies that enable organizations to build and nurture long-term customer relationships. To help...
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- December 26, 2018
- Article
Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict
By: Josh Baron
Many families avoid conflict because it makes them uncomfortable. For families that own and manage businesses, this is a problem. Conflict avoidance leads people to avoid difficult–but necessary–conversations and decisions. Instead of avoiding conflict, the people who...
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Baron, Josh. "Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 26, 2018).
- January 25, 2021
- Blog Post
Lower Income Translates to Fewer Happy Experiences—Here Is How We Can Fix It
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Adam Eric Greenberg
Can money actually buy happiness? Research shows that having more money makes people evaluate their lives more favorably (what researchers call “life satisfaction”). Surprising as it may seem, whether money leads to greater life satisfaction because it makes people...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Adam Eric Greenberg. "Lower Income Translates to Fewer Happy Experiences—Here Is How We Can Fix It." Character & Context (January 25, 2021). https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/jachimowicz-greenberg-wealth-happiness-inequalities.