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- January 2002 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Describes a specific approach for measuring the efficiency of the groups of computers inside an organization and suggests ways this tool may be used to reduce the company's computing investment while maintaining service. It is a software-enabled industrial engineering...
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Cost Management;
Investment;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Style;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Nancy Bartlett. "Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations." Harvard Business School Case 302-061, January 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
- May 2022
- Case
Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash...
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Fintech;
Inflation;
Deflation;
Rural;
Urban;
Emerging Market;
Mobile Technology;
Finance;
Money;
Inflation and Deflation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Demographics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Behavioral Finance;
Currency;
Banks and Banking;
Commercial Banking;
Financial Strategy;
Rural Scope;
Urban Scope;
Innovation Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Network Effects;
Consumer Behavior;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?" Harvard Business School Case 222-084, May 2022.
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
projects to foster social learning and community-building. The courses that include team and partner-based activities are: Business Strategy Design Thinking and Innovation Disruptive Strategy Negotiation Mastery Organizational Leadership Sustainable Business Strategy...
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- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
by Willis Towers Watson found that 40 percent of employees desire family-related assistance, with preference for expanded family leave, bereavement leave or assistance, and additional maternity leave. Companies can attract and retain talent by View Details
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by Kara Baskin
- 22 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics
- 29 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network
- June 2003 (Revised September 2004)
- Exercise
The Pacific Sentinel: Role for Chris Coleman
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Dina R. Pradel
A new publishing company has just purchased the Pacific Sentinel, a fictional West Coast newspaper. The new publisher is willing to invest $1 million in the future success of the paper and has asked the executive editor and advertising manager to develop a joint plan...
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McGinn, Kathleen L., and Dina R. Pradel. "The Pacific Sentinel: Role for Chris Coleman." Harvard Business School Exercise 903-133, June 2003. (Revised September 2004.)
- December 1999 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
CNBC (A): NBC and Its Startup Friends
NBC expands further on to the Internet with CNBC.com. NBC's Internet strategy, supported by corporate parent General Electric, involves numerous investments as well as new ventures like CNBC.com. Soon after CNBC.com is launched in 1999, NBC brings in a new CEO, Pamela...
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Business Startups;
Change Management;
Management Teams;
Corporate Strategy;
Leadership Development;
Internet and the Web;
Expansion;
Media;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "CNBC (A): NBC and Its Startup Friends." Harvard Business School Case 300-090, December 1999. (Revised May 2002.)
- 17 Aug 2010
- News
Wooing the best workers, and paying dearly for it
- 07 Oct 2019
- News
Weighting accounts for impact
- 11 Mar 2016
- News
Bob Evans’ Activist Shareholder Battles with Board He Helped Pick
- 27 Mar 2020
- Video
Leading a Financial Institution in the Era of Climate Change
- Web
Programs & Events - Alumni
Executive Education HBS Campus Disruptive Innovation Drive innovation to lead breakthrough change, capture and defend market opportunities, and sustain competitive advantage. Jun23 23–26 JUN 2024 Executive Education HBS Campus Investment...
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- March 2021
- Case
P.F. Chang's
By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross
Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the...
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Restaurants;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Scenario Planning;
Scenarios;
Health Pandemics;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy
Nanda, Ashish, Nitin Nohria, and Margaret Cross. "P.F. Chang's." Harvard Business School Case 721-380, March 2021.
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
earthquake damage. They can take action now to ensure that America invests in growing our domestic stock of world-class suppliers. A national campaign to enhance supply-chain partnerships could also accelerate job creation. America needs...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Jul 2015
- News
The problem lies not in our shareholders, but our executives
- 04 Mar 2014
- News
Former SBA Chief Karen Mills on How to Jump Start the Economy Now
- 18 Mar 2011
- News
Better Retail Performance Predictions
- 26 Jul 2020
- News
DOL’S ESG proposal would hurt retirement accounts
- 07 May 2014
- Video