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- November 2001 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
Evolution of Treatment, The: The Case of Diabetes
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Street and Laura Feldman
Scientific knowledge surrounding diabetes mellitus has grown over the last century to include its cause, treatment, and prevention strategies. However, the type and level of care that patients receive is suboptional. This case examines the forces in industry,...
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Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Management;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Jeffrey D. Street, and Laura Feldman. "Evolution of Treatment, The: The Case of Diabetes." Harvard Business School Case 302-023, November 2001. (Revised September 2004.)
- August 2004 (Revised March 2009)
- Exercise
Your Own Case Study
By: Joshua D. Margolis and Sarah Marie Kauss
Designed to aid in the transfer and application of knowledge gained from the executive program to the live situation that program participants face in their jobs. Teaching Purpose: To bring practical relevance to executive education programs, permitting focused...
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Margolis, Joshua D., and Sarah Marie Kauss. "Your Own Case Study." Harvard Business School Exercise 405-037, August 2004. (Revised March 2009.)
- Mar 25 2015
- Interview
What Every Executive Should Know About Finance
- 23 Jul 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Creative Consulting Company
Amy C. Edmondson
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of... View Details
Jacqueline Ng Lane
Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details
Magie Cheng
Mengjie (Magie) Cheng is a Ph.D. student in Marketing at Harvard Business School. She received her B.S. in Finance from Chu Kochen Honors College at Zhejiang University and M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Prior to joining the Ph.D....
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- 2007
- Book
A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know
By: David A. Moss
Now more than ever before, executives and managers need to understand their larger economic context. In The Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, David Moss leverages his many years of teaching experience at Harvard Business School to lay out important macroeconomic...
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Moss, David A. A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
- 23 May 2016
- Blog Post
Advice for Prospective Students from Africa
family in the U.S. at the time. After graduating from college I had a technical background, experience as a management consultant, and a keen passion to become an entrepreneur and a change-maker in Africa. But I didn’t have any business...
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Contextual Intelligence
By: Tarun Khanna
The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of...
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Khanna, Tarun. "Contextual Intelligence." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 9 (September 2014): 58–68.
- November 2000
- Background Note
Running and Growing the Small Company: Team Project Guidelines
Requires participation in a team research project. Each team should have three to four members. The goal of the project is to acquire first-hand knowledge of how a particular business process is managed at a small company.
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Spear, Steven J. "Running and Growing the Small Company: Team Project Guidelines." Harvard Business School Background Note 601-083, November 2000.
- October 1999 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Buckman Laboratories (A)
Explores the implementation of a cutting-edge knowledge management system in a midsize, specialty chemical company. The initiative, begun in the early 1990s, has received several awards for its efforts. In early 1999, the company is experiencing severe price pressures...
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Fulmer, William E. "Buckman Laboratories (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-160, October 1999. (Revised January 2003.)
- August 1979
- Case
Claire McCloud
Describes the situation faced by a young MBA with an economics background who is offered the opportunity to manage a high technology fiber optics business. Designed to facilitate exploring the skills and knowledge that the general manager of a technology-based firm...
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Maidique, Modesto A. "Claire McCloud." Harvard Business School Case 680-030, August 1979.
- 2007
- Chapter
Creativity in Product Development
Managing new product development is a key area of management, straddling strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship and macro-organizational behaviour. All of the contributors in the Handbook of New Product Developmet Management are well-known and leading exponents to...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Product Development;
Problems and Challenges;
Research;
Creativity
Fleming, Lee, and Santiago Mingo. "Creativity in Product Development." In Handbook of New Product Development Management, edited by Christoph Loch and Stylianos Kavadias. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
- 2007
- Book
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning
By: Joseph L. Bower
With rising CEO turnover, companies are increasingly looking outside for qualified candidates. Sure, externally recruited CEOs bring fresh perspectives and connections. But they lack the in-depth knowledge of the company's culture and history that they need to succeed....
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Bower, Joseph L. The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
- 2015
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Marketing Reading: Marketing Intelligence
By: Robert J. Dolan and Leslie K. John
This reading provides the basic knowledge a marketing manager needs in order to choose the right combination of research methods, as well as the best way to present research findings to stakeholders. Furthermore, this Reading shows how effective decision making hinges...
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Dolan, Robert J., and Leslie K. John. "Marketing Reading: Marketing Intelligence." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Harvard Business Publishing 8191, 2015.
- 18 Feb 2021
- Interview
Amy Edmondson: Are You Missing One of Your Most Important Jobs as a Manager?
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Chris Clearfield
During our conversation, we talked about:
• The renewed interest in the concept of psychological safety
• J.D. Thompson’s notion of “reciprocal coordination needs”
• How knowledge work does not produce objective or mechanical... View Details
• The renewed interest in the concept of psychological safety
• J.D. Thompson’s notion of “reciprocal coordination needs”
• How knowledge work does not produce objective or mechanical... View Details
"Amy Edmondson: Are You Missing One of Your Most Important Jobs as a Manager?" Episode 18. The Breakdown with Chris Clearfield (podcast), February 18, 2021.
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
know how to reap value from the KR, which ironically improves with increasing access to other sources of knowledge. Implications for both team effectiveness and knowledge management research are offered. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
knowledge emerge across the globe, companies must establish a presence at an increasing number of locations to access new knowledge and to absorb new research results from foreign universities and...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
applying knowledge in pursuit of innovation. “When you peel back the layers of these companies, you find that these six qualities are practiced, and often they have family edicts that are passed down from one generation to the next,” says...
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by Kristen Senz