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Agility Hacks
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ranjay Gulati
In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the...
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Keywords:
Agile Practices;
Agile Project Management;
Projects;
Management Practices and Processes;
Groups and Teams;
Innovation Strategy
Edmondson, Amy C., and Ranjay Gulati. "Agility Hacks." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021).
- July 2003 (Revised January 2013)
- Background Note
Note on Organized Labor in U.S. Public Education
Surveys the history, structure, and activities of the two dominant U.S. teachers unions—the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The NEA and AFT represent approximately 90% of U.S. public school teachers and have grown...
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Leschly, Stig. "Note on Organized Labor in U.S. Public Education." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-018, July 2003. (Revised January 2013.)
- 06 Jul 2020
- News
Minor League Baseball as we know it may be gone
- Forthcoming
- Article
On the Origins of Restricting Women's Promiscuity
By: Anke Becker
This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a particular form of preindustrial...
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- 21 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
How I Used the HBS Community to Hone My Professional Goals
development rotational program. My time at Cardinal Health exposed me to the health care world and gave me the chance to work functionally in Corporate Finance and Corporate Strategy. The rotational program was a great fit, as I moved...
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Curriculum - MBA
insights and decisions; exposure to R statistical programming language to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data; knowledge of how modern data science strategies and analytics are used across finance, marketing, operations, and other business View Details
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Required Curriculum - MBA
finance, marketing, operations, and other business functions to create value and solve problems. Ability to set up and manage data science teams, governance policies, and analytics infrastructure. Expertise to prioritize and sequence data...
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Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?
By: Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin and George Serafeim
We explore how an organization’s financial misconduct may affect pay for former employees not implicated in wrongdoing. Drawing on stigma theory we hypothesize that although such alumni did not participate in the financial misconduct, and they had left the organization...
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Financial Misconduct;
Stigma;
Finance;
Crime and Corruption;
Executive Compensation;
Employees;
Compensation and Benefits
Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim. "Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (December 6, 2017).
- March 2017
- Teaching Note
Showpad
By: Frank Cespedes
Showpad is a startup that provides a sales enablement platform and tools. The venture has grown 100% annually since its founding four years ago, and the founders are evaluating growth options and decisions in three areas: adding product features, possible pricing...
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- April 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
RTY Telecom: Network Expansion
Requires real option analysis to analyze a capital expenditure decision by a large regional telecommunications firm. The firm needs to add network capacity for its broadband offering and is trying to decide on how to do this. One approach is simply to purchase this...
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Keywords:
Expansion;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Wireless Technology;
Telecommunications Industry
Chacko, George C., Vincent Dessain, Christopher Smith, and Anders Sjoman. "RTY Telecom: Network Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 205-102, April 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- April 1990 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
Frost, Inc. (A)
In many ways Frost is an archetypal, small, dying manufacturing firm. With profits gone in a no-growth business and unable to diversify, Charles Frost bets the company on computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment to replace the existing 1940s era screw machines....
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Chew, W. Bruce, and Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy. "Frost, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 690-084, April 1990. (Revised November 1991.)
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Best Business Books 2019: Strategy
Fit In, Stand Out: Mastering the FISO FACTOR - The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life
In Fit In, Stand Out, McGarvie presents her breakthrough program that will help you become a more effective leader. She reveals how integration and transformation function as the yin and yang of business, working together and balancing each other to form... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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pymetrics: International Expansion
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including...
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Keywords:
BrainTech;
Psychodynamics;
Psychology;
Hiring Of Employees;
Hiring;
Strategic Evolution;
Strategy And Execution;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Entrepreneur;
Bias;
Rapid Growth Stage;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Employment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 720-376, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
confidence in yourself as both a leader and a decision-maker Develop enduring bonds with accomplished peers who span functions, industries, and countries Take advantage of resources for lifelong learning as a member of the global HBS alumni community Who Should Attend...
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- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
potentially controversial business activities—outsourcing, for example—understate their earnings if it might boost a candidate's chances of election. The research by HBS professor Karthik Ramanna and a colleague from MIT, Professor Sugata Roychowdhury, suggests that...
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by Martha Lagace
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Oracle Efficient Private Non-Convex Optimization
By: Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, Giuseppe Vietri and Zhiwei Steven Wu
One of the most effective algorithms for differentially private learning and optimization is objective perturbation. This technique augments a given optimization problem (e.g. deriving from an ERM problem) with a random linear term, and then exactly solves it....
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Neel, Seth, Aaron Leon Roth, Giuseppe Vietri, and Zhiwei Steven Wu. "Oracle Efficient Private Non-Convex Optimization." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 37th (2020).
- September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
Mod IV Product Development Team
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell's Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the...
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Management Teams;
Product Development;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Strategy
Donnellon, Anne, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Mod IV Product Development Team." Harvard Business School Case 491-030, September 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
- TeachingInterests
United States in the World 39 - History of American Democracy
By: David A. Moss
For Harvard College undergraduates and MBA students
Today we often hear that American democracy is broken - but what does a healthy democracy look like? How has American democratic governance functioned in the past, and how has it changed... View Details
- November 2015
- Case
Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work
Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online...
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Keywords:
Platforms;
Employment;
Digital Platforms;
Market Transactions;
Business Processes;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Job Search
Zhu, Feng, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti, and Aaron Smith. "Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 616-027, November 2015.