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- 2016
- Working Paper
The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development
By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the...
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Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Das Narayandas. "The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-019, September 2016.
- October 2017 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Namrata Arora
Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By...
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Keywords:
Retail;
Marketplace;
Inventory;
Ecommerce;
Funding;
Business Ecosystem;
Business Ecosystems;
Competition;
Business Model;
Globalization;
Emerging Markets;
Expansion;
Logistics;
Competitive Strategy;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
India;
Nigeria;
Africa
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Namrata Arora. "Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A)." Harvard Business School Case 718-401, October 2017. (Revised October 2022.)
- July 2019
- Case
Piramal Foundation: The Business of Philanthropy
By: Vikram Gandhi and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
The Piramal Foundation was launched by diversfied Indian conglomerate, the Piramal Group, to improve the healthcare services and quality of education of India’s economically and socially disadvantaged. The foundation operates under three verticals—‘Piramal Foundation...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Education;
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Improvement;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
Health Industry;
India
Gandhi, Vikram, and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Piramal Foundation: The Business of Philanthropy." Harvard Business School Case 520-011, July 2019.
- 2012
- Case
UFIDA (F)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia
As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F) using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and the...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Guo Jia. "UFIDA (F)." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.
- December 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Transforming Verizon: A Platform for Change
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
A new CEO steps into the shoes of his long-time predecessor who had created the U.S. telecommunications giant via a series of acquisitions and, before departing, had initiated the company's strategic repositioning. The new CEO reflected on Verizon's recent successes,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Telecommunications Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Matthew Bird. "Transforming Verizon: A Platform for Change." Harvard Business School Case 312-082, December 2011. (Revised April 2012.)
- November 2015
- Case
Rubicon Global
By: William A. Sahlman and Hunter Ashmore
The case describes Rubicon Global, a startup that aimed to disrupt the waste management industry. The company started with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management company providing low-cost, highly efficient, and environmentally friendly...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Rubicon;
Rubicon Global;
Waste Management;
Startups;
Disruptive Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Entrepreneurship;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business Startups;
Corporate Finance;
Service Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Hunter Ashmore. "Rubicon Global." Harvard Business School Case 816-015, November 2015.
- August 1993 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Southwest Airlines: 1993 (A)
By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell
Southwest Airlines, the only major U.S. airline to be profitable in 1992, makes a decision as to which of two new cities to open, or to add a new long-haul route. Provides windows into Southwest's strategy, operations, marketing, and culture.
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Cost Management;
Profit;
Marketing;
Service Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Heskett, James L., and Roger H. Hallowell. "Southwest Airlines: 1993 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 694-023, August 1993. (Revised April 1997.)
- December 2017 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016
By: Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Toyin J. Okanlawon
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) began as a stand-alone hospital in the heart of downtown Philadelphia in 1855. By 2016 the CHOP Care Network stretched across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Organizational Structure;
Networks;
Integration;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
Philadelphia
Porter, Michael E., Thomas W. Feeley, and Toyin J. Okanlawon. "The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016." Harvard Business School Case 718-420, December 2017. (Revised April 2018.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web
By: Marco Iansiti
Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Partners and Partnerships;
Competition;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web
Iansiti, Marco. "Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-142, June 2009.
- August 2016 (Revised June 2018)
- Teaching Note
VMD Medical Imaging Center
By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
VMD Medical Imaging Center addresses a number of issues related to the role of costing systems in organizations and the challenges impacting their design and maintenance as the organization grows and develops over time. This teaching note begins by offering detailed...
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- October 2001
- Exercise
Liability Problems
By: Robert S. Kaplan
This case provides three examples of the recognition and measurement of liabilities. The first focuses on recognizing when employees have rendered services for which future period benefits have been earned, that is, whether unused vacation, sick, and personal days at...
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Keywords:
Cash;
Annuities;
Interest Rates;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Wages;
Problems and Challenges;
Value
Kaplan, Robert S. "Liability Problems." Harvard Business School Exercise 102-035, October 2001.
- September 2011
- Case
Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts
USAP faces extraordinary opportunities to change the way that automobiles are serviced in the US by selling parts at fair prices though online channels.
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Disruptive Innovation;
Business Model;
Internet and the Web;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Machinery and Machining;
Cost Management;
Auto Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States
Tripsas, Mary, Amit Bhatia, and Anita M. McGahan. "Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts." Harvard Business School Case 812-032, September 2011.
- Research Summary
Managing Networked Businesses
Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective
By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Information;
Surveys;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Interviews;
Job Search;
Emerging Markets;
Digital Platforms;
Service Operations;
Internet and the Web
Coles, Peter A., John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried. "The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-096, May 2010.
- September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
- Case
VMware, Inc., 2008
By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Michael Slind
Paul Maritz took the helm of VMware in July 2008, just as the company confronted a radically new competitive environment. Since its founding in 1998, VMware had been the leading provider of virtualization software. Now it faced the kind of threat that every software...
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Keywords:
History;
Digital Platforms;
Competition;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Applications and Software;
Business Strategy
Yoffie, David B., Andrei Hagiu, and Michael Slind. "VMware, Inc., 2008." Harvard Business School Case 709-435, September 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
- October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
The Joslin Diabetes Center
By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg and Scott Wallace
The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health...
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Keywords:
Integration;
Service Delivery;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Outcome or Result;
Corporate Finance;
Health Industry;
Boston
Porter, Michael E., Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, and Scott Wallace. "The Joslin Diabetes Center." Harvard Business School Case 710-424, October 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Stanley S. Litow
The need for a fresh approach to U.S. communities is more urgent than ever because of the biggest global economic crisis since the Great Depression. Through examination of the barriers to solving urban problems (and the ways they reinforce each other), this paper...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Investment;
Urban Scope;
Leadership;
Safety;
Civil Society or Community;
Technology Networks;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Stanley S. Litow. "Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-141, June 2009.
- October 2014
- Case
Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference
By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond...
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Keywords:
Diversity Management;
Corporate Values;
Competitiveness;
Demographics;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Literacy;
Nationality;
Race;
Residency;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Culture;
Economic Growth;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Immigration;
Employee Relationship Management;
Civil Society or Community;
Manufacturing Industry;
Construction Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
Germany;
Russia;
Turkey
Rose, Clayton, Jerome Lenhardt, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference." Harvard Business School Case 315-016, October 2014.
- March 2002
- Article
The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries
What is the efficient cost of providing telecommunications services to a certain area or type of customer? As developing countries build up their capacity to regulate infrastructure monopolies, cost models are likely to prove increasingly important in answering...
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Keywords:
Information;
Cost;
Mathematical Methods;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Telecommunications Industry
Ruzzier, Christian Alejandro, D. Benitez, A. Estache, and D. M. Kennet. "The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries." Information Economics and Policy 14, no. 1 (March 2002): 21–38.