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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Programs & Events Live from Klarman Hall The plenary sessions of the Leading with AI conference were recorded and will be available on this page and on the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard's YouTube page. Leading with AI:...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
designing and managing an operations organization. The best way to do something depends critically on the characteristics and capabilities of your organization and the competitive context in which it finds...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
private sector that, in highly turbulent environments, overly centralized organizations get overwhelmed by the informational burdens placed on them. So while it makes good political theater to give responsibility to a strongman or...
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- March 2006
- Module Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World
Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course...
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
this post, Misan Rewane (MBA 2013, NVC 2013 Winner) shares her insights on founding and leading a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth...
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Econometrics Economic Theory Economics of Organization Entrepreneurship Finance Industrial Organization International Economics Labor Economics Macroeconomics Program Requirements Profiles Fanele...
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- November 1980 (Revised August 1986)
- Case
Progressive Corp.'s Divisionalization Decision (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Describes a company that is considering whether to establish an experimental division as a relatively independent profit center under a general manager. Data relevant to this decision include the company's strategy, markets, products, current structure, size, and the...
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Business Divisions;
Decision Making;
Data and Data Sets;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Design;
Situation or Environment
Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "Progressive Corp.'s Divisionalization Decision (A)." Harvard Business School Case 481-067, November 1980. (Revised August 1986.)
- January 2020
- Teaching Plan
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group: Acquisition of Volvo Cars and Volvo Cars: Acquisition by Geely
By: Willy Shih
This teachning plan is for the two cases 619-041 which describes Geely's acquisition of Volvo Cars, and 619-042 which describes Volvo Cars' acqusition by Geely. The case is designed to illustrate the different sides of an M&A transaction and the organizational culture...
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- 2008
- Article
Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator's Dilemma
By: Charles O'Reilly and Michael Tushman
How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying this question is a rich debate about whether organizations can adapt—and if so, how. One perspective, organizational ecology, presents evidence suggesting that most organizations are largely inert and...
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Change Management;
Competency and Skills;
Innovation and Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Performance Efficiency;
Competitive Advantage
O'Reilly, Charles, and Michael Tushman. "Ambidexterity as a Dynamic Capability: Resolving the Innovator's Dilemma." Research in Organizational Behavior 28 (2008): 185–206.
- May 2001 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Submarino.com (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Meredith Collura and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Enables a thorough analysis of Submarino.com, a B2C e-commerce company with a presence in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and Portugal. Examines the company's global operations as well as its organizational design and operating and management capabilities. Considers...
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Business Model;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Operations;
Organizational Design;
Strategy;
Internet;
Retail Industry;
Portugal;
Spain;
Mexico;
Argentina;
Brazil
Applegate, Lynda M., Meredith Collura, and Luiz Felipe Monteiro. "Submarino.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 801-350, May 2001. (Revised January 2010.)
- Teaching Interest
Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)
Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details
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Behavioral Economics—Virtual
think—and how altering the decision-making context can make an impact on their choices. In this virtual program, you will learn how to design and rigorously test a "choice architecture" that can help your managers make better decisions,...
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
initiatives Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and control Design measurement systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and...
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- 30 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience
- 11 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Business and Environment Initiative
The Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS launched back in 2010. It was founded in order to educate business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting businesses today and to help them design...
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- 30 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University
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Real Estate Management Program
succeed in a complex market by taking a holistic approach to real estate projects and addressing challenges from a cross-disciplinary perspective. As you examine sustainability goals, design considerations, financing strategies, industry...
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- October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Intermountain Health Care
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making...
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Ethnicity;
Innovation Strategy;
Cost Management;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Technology Adoption;
Performance Improvement;
Problems and Challenges;
Adoption;
Change Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Utah
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Laura Feldman. "Intermountain Health Care." Harvard Business School Case 603-066, October 2002. (Revised March 2013.)
- November 1988 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor
By: Linda A. Hill
At a time of great changes in the corporate environment, Larry Yoshino, a design lab manager at Parsons Controls Corp., faces a delay in a costly defense project due to the inability of one of his subordinates to gain the cooperation of engineers at Parsons'...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Conflict Management;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Employees;
Competitive Strategy;
Projects
Hill, Linda A. "Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor." Harvard Business School Case 489-084, November 1988. (Revised July 1997.)