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- 22 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Master the One-on-One Meeting
who makes time for their team members—especially those who are also leaders—is less likely to suffer poor team performance because of ambiguity and mistrust. Each 1:1 is an...
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by Julia B. Austin
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Strategic Negotiations
provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior executives who face complex and challenging negotiations, such as CEOs, entrepreneurs, board members, general managers, business...
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- March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact
In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The...
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Venture Philanthropy;
Scaling;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Social Justice;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Venture Capital;
Business Model;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Values and Beliefs;
Decisions;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Investment Portfolio
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact." Harvard Business School Case 521-090, March 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
even more intentional with how they use their time. It also requires teams and organizations to think collectively about how people are using their time. It matters where people are, vis-a-via others on their team; there are benefits of...
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by Kristen Senz
- October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood
By: Susanna Gallani and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management system, which Dr. Sherif Abouel Naga, founder and CEO of the hospital, had championed. This was a critical juncture as...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Performance Management;
Performance Incentives;
Strategic Alignment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Alignment;
Performance Evaluation;
Mission and Purpose;
Change Management;
Health Industry;
Egypt;
Middle East
Gallani, Susanna, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood." Harvard Business School Case 122-041, October 2021. (Revised February 2022.)
- January 2008
- Article
Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time
By: G. Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin
Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life cycle. Be open to the best option at each juncture and wise enough to make the right call.
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Gavetti, G., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
Lee Fleming: The classroom discussions remind me of early classes in the first-year required curriculum. The MBAs make up about 40 percent of the class and are in their last term at HBS—obviously, they can run a case discussion. In...
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The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive Costs of Faking It
By: Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Although people buy counterfeit products to signal positive traits, we show that wearing counterfeit products makes individuals feel less authentic and increases their likelihood of both behaving dishonestly and judging others as unethical. In four experiments,...
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Gino, Francesca, Michael I. Norton, and Dan Ariely. "The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive Costs of Faking It." Psychological Science 21, no. 5 (May 2010): 712–720.
- February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
KangaTech
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused...
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Startup;
Technology Commercialization;
Prototype;
Business Startups;
Technological Innovation;
Sports;
Health;
Commercialization;
Research and Development;
Decision Making;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Industry;
Sports Industry;
Health Industry;
Australia
Lakhani, Karim R., Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. "KangaTech." Harvard Business School Case 619-049, February 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
- January 2011 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)
By: Joseph Badaracco, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III and William Wheeler
A Lieutenant leading a platoon in Iraq must make a complex ethical, military, and leadership decision: whether to risk his life and that of other soldiers to reenter a home rigged with an explosive and save three Iraqis.
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Moral Sensibility;
Leadership;
Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Iraq
Badaracco, Joseph, Richard Burgess Jr., Robert Carpio III, and William Wheeler. "Joe Gifford in Tal Afar, Iraq (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-085, January 2011. (Revised June 2012.)
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Managing Innovation
countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Vice presidents, directors, and other senior managers...
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- 27 Apr 2016
- News
Health Care Takes Center Stage at Finale of New Venture Competition
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Launching New Ventures
Pitch your business to potential investors and other stakeholders Evolve your leadership approach to manage ongoing innovation, radical change, and growth Address competitive challenges Make sound investment and resource allocation View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
data science makes this model obsolete. Behavioral scientists tell us that where there is human interaction, people will have biases that influence their decisions, typically in the wrong way. “Now decisions...
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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
interaction, coordination, communication, and decision making employees use to transform resources into products and services of greater worth. A company's processes determine its skills and strengths as...
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Transforming Customer Experiences
industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior executives in either B2C or B2B...
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- February 15, 2022
- Article
How Managers Can Build a Culture of Experimentation
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Neil Hoyne
Testing in business presents qualitatively different challenges than those in clinical trials and most scientific research. There are very few opportunities for randomized control experiments in a changing, competitive market. Yet, change and competition make testing a...
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Neil Hoyne. "How Managers Can Build a Culture of Experimentation." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 15, 2022).
- Research Summary
Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete
By: Michael Beer
Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:
- Capacity of the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
interdependent work is performed under conditions that make bounded stable teams infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
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by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen