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- 06 Apr 2018
- News
3 Tips for Presenting in English When You’re Not a Native Speaker
- 2022
- Book
Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present
By: Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi
How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leaders are central challenges for any society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic...
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Keywords:
Merit;
Meritocracy;
Society;
Government and Politics;
History;
Power and Influence;
Leadership;
Competency and Skills;
China;
India
Khanna, Tarun, and Michael Szonyi, eds. Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Owner/President Management
capabilities Formulate optimal financing strategies Embrace digital transformation to drive breakthrough innovation Lead organizational change and drive profitable growth Identify and exploit opportunities locally and internationally...
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- Research Summary
Management of Succession
By: Joseph L. Bower
An outgrowth of the work on the corporate office has been a more focused study on the management of succession. This work identified the reasons why the management of CEO succession has proved so difficult for so many companies as well as the way the best companies are...
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- April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Exel PLC--Supply Chain Management at Haus Mart
By: Zeynep Ton and Steven C. Wheelwright
Exel plc is a global third-party logistics provider, serving clients such as Home Depot, Dell, Unilever, and Marks & Spencer. Describes the range of activities Exel performs for its clients and the capabilities the company has developed. Exel traditionally focused on...
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Ton, Zeynep, and Steven C. Wheelwright. "Exel PLC--Supply Chain Management at Haus Mart." Harvard Business School Case 605-080, April 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin Kohler
Launched as an eBay for services, eLance promises to leverage the capabilities of the Internet to not only change the way services are bought and sold, but change the fundamental dynamics of the global economy. Building on theories posited in the HBR article by Tim...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Job Search;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Web Sites;
Information Technology Industry;
Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kristin Kohler. "eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 801-224, October 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Michael Chu
Chu's research is focused on business and low income sectors, particularly in the use of commercial platforms to deliver what has traditionally been considered public responsibilities. In the last three decades, business models have emerged to meet the underserved...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Microfinance;
Base Of The Pyramid;
Role Of Profit And Social Impact;
Private Sector Development;
Emerging Markets;
Business Ventures;
Health Care and Treatment;
Management;
Social Enterprise;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
Health Industry;
Latin America;
North and Central America;
Asia;
Africa
- October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Paez
By: Jill Avery, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Laura Urdapilleta
Paez, an Argentine start-up fashion brand, sold traditional alpargatas, a sleepy shoe category that suddenly woke up when U.S. company TOMS borrowed the traditional alpargata design, covered it with fashionable colors and prints, and tied it to a social cause. Paez's...
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- December 2000
- Background Note
Networked Utility Providers
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown
Defines and describes ways to categorize networked utilities, software "applets" such as RealNetwork's RealPlayer, Macromedia's Shockwave, and AOL's ICQ that are downloaded via the Internet. Networked utilities extend basic Web browser capability to allow users to...
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Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alastair Brown. "Networked Utility Providers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-309, December 2000.
- April 2017
- Case
Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella
Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI) had a bold, some said crazy, vision: to mine asteroids. One might have assumed that developing the right technology would be the greatest challenge facing PRI. But even if the fledgling company could develop and deploy the sophisticated...
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Keywords:
Property;
Rights;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Aerospace Industry;
Mining Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Angela Acocella. "Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy." Harvard Business School Case 717-053, April 2017.
- 28 Feb 2019
- News
The Future of Leadership Development
- July 2020
- Case
Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within
When Kathy Fish, Procter & Gamble’s Chief Research, Development & Innovation Officer, and a 40-year company veteran, stepped into her role in 2014, she was concerned that the world’s leading consumer packaged goods company had lost its capability to produce a steady...
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Keywords:
Female Protagonist;
Organizational Change;
Organizational Behavior;
Culture Change;
Digital;
Innovation;
Lean Startup;
Experimentation;
Metrics;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Disruption;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Transformation
Truelove, Emily, Linda A. Hill, and Emily Tedards. "Kathy Fish at Procter & Gamble: Navigating Industry Disruption by Disrupting from Within." Harvard Business School Case 421-012, July 2020.
- December 2022
- Case
To Feed the Planet: Juan Luciano at ADM
By: Joshua D. Margolis, David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin, Stacy Straaberg and James Weber
In December 2022, Juan Luciano, Chairman and CEO of agribusiness and nutrition giant ADM, considered the next phase of the historic company’s future. Beginning in 2011 when he joined as COO and moving into his tenure as CEO in 2015, Luciano led a transformation of ADM...
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Keywords:
Agriculture;
Leadership;
Agribusiness;
Acquisition;
Business Units;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Capital;
Cash;
Cost of Capital;
Cost Management;
Profit;
Food;
Global Range;
Innovation Strategy;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Strategic Planning;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Value Creation;
Transformation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Energy Industry;
United States;
Chicago
Margolis, Joshua D., David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin, Stacy Straaberg, and James Weber. "To Feed the Planet: Juan Luciano at ADM." Harvard Business School Case 423-060, December 2022.
- February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.]....
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Keywords:
AI;
Artificial Intelligence;
Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Business Subsidiaries;
Brands and Branding;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth and Development Strategy;
AI and Machine Learning;
Technology Industry;
Africa
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Esel Çekin. "InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 822-104, February 2022. (Revised September 2022.)
- November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Zespri Grows
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Controlling about a third of global kiwifruit exports by volume and nearly half by value in 2018, Zespri was a grower-owned “corporatized cooperative” with the exclusive right to export New Zealand-grown kiwifruit (except to Australia). Zespri did not grow fruit but...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Kiwi;
Kiwifruit;
Agriculture;
Global Supply Chain;
Branding;
Produce;
Coordinated Industry Structure;
Industry Coordination;
Countercyclical Supply;
New Product Development;
Product Strategy;
Differentiation;
Food;
Quality;
Trade;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing;
Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Change Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Globalization;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Resource Allocation;
Product Development;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
New Zealand
Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Zespri Grows." Harvard Business School Case 519-047, November 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
- April 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
CredEx Fintech: Business Model Transformation During the Digital Era
By: Laura Huang, Raphael Amit and Xu Han
Founded in 2010, CredEx has been a fast and constant innovator in the microfinance industry in China. Tang Xia, CEO and co-founder of CredEx, has led the company through a number of profound business model innovations in response to external environment changes, which...
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Keywords:
Digitization;
Fintech;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Transformation;
Microfinance;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Huang, Laura, Raphael Amit, and Xu Han. "CredEx Fintech: Business Model Transformation During the Digital Era." Harvard Business School Case 420-080, April 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- 2013
- Chapter
Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: Task Decomposition, Knowledge Distribution and the Locus of Innovation
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Michael L. Tushman
This chapter contrasts traditional, organization-centered models of innovation with more recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation logics are associated with contrasting organizational boundaries and organizational...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Organizational Boundaries;
Institutional Logics;
Modular Innovation;
Open Innovation;
Knowledge Sharing;
Innovation Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Boundaries;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Lakhani, Karim R., Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Michael L. Tushman. "Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: Task Decomposition, Knowledge Distribution and the Locus of Innovation." Chap. 19 in Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organization Theory, edited by Anna Grandori, 355–382. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
- November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise
By: Robert S. Kaplan
New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Venture Capital;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Governance;
Performance Evaluation;
Financial Statements;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Service Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise." Harvard Business School Case 100-052, November 1999. (Revised July 2001.)
- 2012
- Book
Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy Shih
For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, American companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Production;
Competitive Advantage;
Transformation;
Innovation and Invention;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Pisano, Gary P., and Willy Shih. Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- Program
Succeeding as a Strategic CFO
and capabilities they need to succeed as a modern CFO. In the company of other senior financial leaders, you will discover how to build your skills in key areas, identify blind spots or competency gaps, and gain tools and insights...
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