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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
the Top: How Director Conversations Shape Culture by Melinda Muth (MBA 1981) and Bob Selden Australian Institute of Company Directors The authors examine how director conversations shape organizational...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
is substantially lessened. Thomke and Reinertsen, while studying several hundred development projects in the fast-paced integrated circuit (IC) design industry, focused on the efficacy of two production technologies. One View Details
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- February 2014 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams
By: Tatiana Sandino
Indian cell phone retailer Go Mobile had implemented high-powered incentives to motivate its store employees to behave as owners and provide exceptional service. As the company scaled up, it faced multiple challenges in building a layer of district managers that were...
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Employee Relationship Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Growth Management;
Organizational Design;
Salesforce Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Telecommunications Industry;
India
Sandino, Tatiana. "Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams." Harvard Business School Case 114-034, February 2014. (Revised January 2024.)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
multifirm study of the grocery industry to trace consumer response and the evolution and use of information technology in organizational change....
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 29 Nov 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
- Web
Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
numerous other books and articles. He is a strategic advisor to U.S. and international corporations and a director of Parametric Technology...
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- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
Date: December 7-8, 2007 Faculty Chairs: Teresa Amabile, Mukti Khaire Faculty Summary Report: What were the overall goals of the event? To elucidate the antecedents, facilitators, and consequences of creativity in the View Details
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by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 2023
- Working Paper
Digital Lending and Financial Well-Being: Through the Lens of Mobile Phone Data
By: AJ Chen, Omri Even-Tov, Jung Koo Kang and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
To mitigate information asymmetry about borrowers in developing economies, digital lenders utilize machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of...
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Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
AI and Machine Learning;
Welfare;
Well-being;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Equality and Inequality
Chen, AJ, Omri Even-Tov, Jung Koo Kang, and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman. "Digital Lending and Financial Well-Being: Through the Lens of Mobile Phone Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-076, April 2023. (Revised November 2023. SSRN Working Paper Series, November 2023)
- January 2013
- Case
Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)
By: Frances X. Frei and Robin J. Ely
On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies....
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Customer Relationship Management;
Internet and the Web;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Organizational Culture;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Robin J. Ely. "Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 612-701, January 2013.
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
first volume, Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia. Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore, edited by Teo and published in 2013. Volume II presents papers read at the inaugural...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
are the best-positioned market sectors and stocks as well as those to avoid. Hot Stocks provides a roadmap detailing how to invest in this new reality, and evaluates the many ways global warming will affect...
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- 11 Dec 2019
- News
How AI shifts enterprise decision-making into self-driving mode
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Life by Rob and Steve Shallenberger (OPM 6, 1982) (Eagle Systems International) After four years of intensive research into 50 different organizations, the authors found...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions)....
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- October 2017 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Data Science at Target
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
Paritosh Desai joined Target.com in 2013 as VP of Business Intelligence, Analytics & Testing to explore how the retailer could use its relatively small but thriving e-commerce arm to drive sales and win customers. The case explores the technological and organizational...
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Data Science;
Analytics and Data Science;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Innovation Leadership
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Data Science at Target." Harvard Business School Case 118-016, October 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
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Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS - MBA
our little ones to sleep in their own beds at night. And we also rally around each other in times of sadness or hardship, whether it be the loss of a loved one, a setback in our plans, a difficult stage of potty training, or a health...
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- October 2020
- Supplement
OpenIDEO (B)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe...
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Keywords:
Innovation Competitions;
IDEO;
Contests;
Contest Design;
Platforms And Ecosystems;
Open Innovation;
Open And User Innovation Strategy;
Diversity;
Design;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Global Range;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Health Pandemics;
Health;
Information;
Business and Community Relations;
Digital Platforms
Lakhani, Karim R., Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis, and Jin Hyun Paik. "OpenIDEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-058, October 2020.
- March 2020
- Supplement
People Analytics at Teach For America (B)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. In this supplement, situated one year after the A case, Managing Director Michael Metzger must decide how to apply his team's predictive models generated from the previous year’s data.
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Analytics;
Human Resource Management;
Data;
Workforce;
Hiring;
Talent Management;
Forecasting;
Predictive Analytics;
Organizational Behavior;
Recruiting;
Analytics and Data Science;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Talent and Talent Management
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Julia Kelley. "People Analytics at Teach For America (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-086, March 2020.
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
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Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance View Details
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Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
systems and capabilities that are needed for going to and operating at scale that would take the social icon years to build. So structured correctly, an acquisition strategy...
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