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- 13 Apr 2015
- News
How Bill Gates' singular focus both helped and hurt Microsoft
- February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech
InfoVision illustrates university technology transfer through the choices of a graduating doctoral student. Also explores the challenges of working across the scientific, business, and legal disciplines in the Georgia Tech transfer program.
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Problems and Challenges;
Transformation;
Higher Education;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Research and Development;
Education Industry;
Georgia (state, US)
Fleming, Lee, Marie Thursby, and James Quinn. "InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech." Harvard Business School Case 605-064, February 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 31 May 2023
- Video
Why Climate Is Central to Every Business
- 11 Apr 2012
- News
How To Handle an Activist Investor
- 05 Apr 2024
- News
Classroom Culture and Norms Working Group Q+A
- 21 Jul 2006
- News
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
- August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Gillette Company (B): Leadership for Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and James Weber
Describes the actions and behavior of a new CEO in his first days and weeks as he sets expectations for his top management team and introduces processes and disciplines to begin the turnaround of a global consumer products company.
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Policy;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Motivation and Incentives;
Strategic Planning;
Retail Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and James Weber. "Gillette Company (B): Leadership for Change." Harvard Business School Case 303-033, August 2002. (Revised February 2005.)
- 10 Dec 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
A Journal-Based Replication of 'Being Chosen to Lead'
- August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Background Note
Governance of the Family Business Owners
By: John A. Davis
Reviews the principal ways in which the owners of a family business achieve their governance objectives of a suitable identity and sensible direction and the discipline to achieve these. Covers the responsibilities and rights of owners, plus governance procedures,...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Goals and Objectives;
Family Ownership
Davis, John A. "Governance of the Family Business Owners." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-021, August 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
- 2014
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Strategy Reading: Introduction to Strategy
"Introduction to Strategy" provides a comprehensive overview of the strategy discipline and introduces the building blocks of strategy by providing overviews of fundamental conceptual frameworks. Students will learn how firms decide where to compete by exploring the...
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "Strategy Reading: Introduction to Strategy." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8097, 2014.
- 2020
- Book
Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
By: Stefan Thomke
Don’t fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition,...
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Keywords:
Experimentation;
Experiments;
Market Research;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Customers;
Research
Thomke, Stefan. Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Lessons for Private Equity Learned From the Last Merger Frenzy
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
deeply enough about their customers or consumers. And they fail to think deeply enough partly because they lack deep insights to think about. Fortunately, recent advances in various disciplines are providing concepts and techniques...
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- March 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
The Home Depot, Inc.
For its first 20 years, Home Depot was known for its entrepreneurial spirit and focus on customer service. Merchandising, purchasing, and store operations were all decentralized. When the company hit $45 billion in sales, many believed that a more disciplined approach...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Profit;
Leading Change;
Six Sigma;
Service Operations;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Retail Industry
Ton, Zeynep, and Catherine Ross. "The Home Depot, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 608-093, March 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
- 2013
- Book
Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization
By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
By offering specific action steps, Beyond the Idea extends the elegant conceptual insights from How Stella Saved the Farm, Govindarajan and Trimble's parable. Beyond the Idea shows exactly how to:
- Build a team with a very particular structure, one...
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Govindarajan, Vijay, and Chris Trimble. Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2013.
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The Integration of Psychological and Network Perspectives in Organizational Scholarship
By: Tiziana Casciaro, Sigal G. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, Cristina B. Gibson, David Krackhardt and Giuseppe Labianca
Although multiple disciplines have been applied to the study of organizations, organizational research is rarely interdisciplinary in the sense of two or more disciplines being linked in the joint analysis of organizational phenomena. The articles in this special issue...
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Casciaro, Tiziana, Sigal G. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, Cristina B. Gibson, David Krackhardt, and Giuseppe Labianca. "The Integration of Psychological and Network Perspectives in Organizational Scholarship." Special Issue on the Psychology of Organizational Networks. Organization Science 26, no. 4 (July–August 2015): 1162–1176.
- 17 Sep 2008
- News
Harvard Business School Names New Life Sciences Fellows
- 2012
- Book
The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being
By: Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
The last 25 years have witnessed an explosion in the field of leadership education. This volume brings together leading international scholars across disciplines to chronicle the current state of leadership education and establish a solid foundation on which to grow...
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Keywords:
Change;
Business Education;
Leadership;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Style;
Organizational Structure;
Perspective;
Diversification;
Technology
Snook, Scott, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, eds. The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2012.
- 30 May 2013
- News