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- December 1980 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
University Health Services: Walk-In Clinic
The walk-in clinic for general outpatient care at a major university experiences complaints about excessive waiting times. The system is changed to provide for initial screening of arriving patients in order to route them to appropriate health care providers. The...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Service Delivery;
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Evaluation;
Health Industry
Maister, David H., Shauana Doyle, and Rocco Pigneri. "University Health Services: Walk-In Clinic." Harvard Business School Case 681-061, December 1980. (Revised June 2006.)
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Smartwatches: Wave of future or slave to past?
- 21 Jun 2011
- News
HBS's Lion of Entrepreneurship on Five Start-up Choices
- 20 Jul 2011
- News
The Most Innovative Companies Today—And Tomorrow
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
almost “external” focus: Like engineers of a massive machine, they look at an organization and spot weaknesses or strategic opportunities—a view one can only get from the outside. The role of the LTL depends on the organization and industry, but View Details
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by Hise Gibson
- Article
Making Exit Interviews Count
By: Everett Spain and Boris Groysberg
In the knowledge economy, skilled employees are the assets that drive organizational success. Thus companies must learn from them—why they stay, why they leave, and how the organization needs to change. A thoughtful exit interview—whether it be a face-to-face...
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Spain, Everett, and Boris Groysberg. "Making Exit Interviews Count." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 88–95.
- 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM EDT, 15 Sep 2020
- Virtual Programming
Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
How are companies today using artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to business challenges? During this session, professors Karim Lakhani and Macro Iansiti, coauthors of the book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the...
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- 15 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy
act of giving In many of the studies the researchers examined, participants gave money to a person or toward a cause. In one study, however, the researchers asked people to simply remember a time that they were generous to other people...
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by Michael Blanding
- December 2022
- Article
Shaping Nascent Industries: Innovation Strategy and Regulatory Uncertainty in Personal Genomics
By: Cheng Gao and Rory McDonald
In nascent industries—whose new technologies are often poorly understood
by regulators—contending with regulatory uncertainty can be crucial to organizational survival and growth. Prior research on nonmarket strategy has largely
focused on established firms in mature...
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Keywords:
Technological Change;
Innovation;
Qualitative Methods;
New Categories;
Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy
Gao, Cheng, and Rory McDonald. "Shaping Nascent Industries: Innovation Strategy and Regulatory Uncertainty in Personal Genomics." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 4 (December 2022): 915–967.
- 28 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA
of Business Administration (MBA) is one of the most flexible master’s degrees you can find. We invite you to join us for Peek, an annual virtual program in January for undergrads considering an MBA. Through Peek you can explore options for your future and learn how an...
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- Program
Building a Legacy
Summary Wealth management for high-net-worth families has grown increasingly complex. For some families, the responsibility of wealth management has shifted to younger generations who have less experience investing. For other families,...
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- Web
Curriculum - Case Method Project
decision; Abolitionists; rise of the Republican Party; Lincoln/Douglas Debates; tariffs; Election of 1860; Southern Secession; Fort Sumter Reconstruction A: The Crisis of 1877 This case provides a general overview of Reconstruction,...
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- 2014
- Chapter
Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
By: Diego A. Comin and Marti Mestieri
This chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the diffusion of technologies, and how have they changed over time; what are the key drivers of technology, and what...
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Comin, Diego A., and Marti Mestieri. "Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences." In Handbook of Economic Growth. Vol. 2, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf, 565–622. Elsevier, 2014.
- February 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Harvard Business School
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2008 the Boston-based Harvard Business School would turn 100. As the centennial year began, the HBS community and leadership were reflecting on how the School might fulfill its mission to "develop business leaders who make a difference in the world" in the next...
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Business Education;
Cases;
Leadership Development;
Management;
Management Skills;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Segmentation;
Education Industry
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Harvard Business School." Harvard Business School Case 308-012, February 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- April 2005 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
American Outsourcing
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Alexander Veytsman
Covers the phenomenon of outsourcing jobs from the United States. Reviews the evolution of Mexico's Maquiladoras, manufacturing special economic areas in China, and information technology and service-sourcing in India. Also reviews exports/imports, exchange rates,...
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Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Employment;
Emerging Markets;
Wages;
Trade;
United States;
Mexico;
China;
India
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Alexander Veytsman. "American Outsourcing." Harvard Business School Case 705-037, April 2005. (Revised February 2007.)
- August 2003 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
Royal Bank of Scotland, The: Masters of Integration
By: Nitin Nohria and James Weber
Describes the acquisition of Nat West by Royal Bank of Scotland. Describes the strategic rationale for the acquisition and the process by which the integration of the two banks was accomplished. The acquisition is remarkable for how successful it was, given the typical...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Integration;
Banks and Banking;
Success;
Banking Industry;
Scotland
Nohria, Nitin, and James Weber. "Royal Bank of Scotland, The: Masters of Integration." Harvard Business School Case 404-026, August 2003. (Revised June 2005.)
- 17 Apr 2015
- News