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- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
convince more people to get vaccinated. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/4llCHjEqY1XunMkYbjrB][/div] Three steps to speed vaccine adoption Governments are prioritizing certain groups to receive the vaccine, with medical professionals...
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- 05 Jul 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
system to speed delivery of targeted therapies to the marketplace. “Early on, people would ask us why the (Harvard) business school, and not the medical school, was the recipient of this gift,” says accelerator co-chair and HBS senior...
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Believe in Vaccine Bets Like Bill Gates's
Commitment of public or private funds upfront speeds development, production, and distribution.
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Keywords:
Coronavirus;
Vaccine;
Financing;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Development;
Production;
Distribution
Kominers, Scott Duke. "Believe in Vaccine Bets Like Bill Gates's." Bloomberg Opinion (April 28, 2020).
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military engagement. Readers familiar with...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
speed from launch to maturity is faster than ever before. Marketers can do three things to delay the inevitable forces of commoditization. Innovate. A new product that better meets consumer needs, even an upgrade of an existing product,...
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by John Quelch
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less time checking boxes." To get there, most firms must be willing to engage in radical change and...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/jubaphoto) How many times have we discussed the contributions of employee engagement and the loyalty it produces to an organization’s performance? Trust is, as it is for many things in society, the bedrock for employee engagement. A culture...
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by James Heskett
- April 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr, Emilie Billaud and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In February 2020, Nick Dalton, executive vice president HR business transformation at Unilever, reflected on the changing nature of work marked by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Human Capital;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Structure;
Transformation;
Human Resources;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe
Kerr, William R., Emilie Billaud, and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej. "Unilever's Response to the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 820-104, April 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 15 Oct 2012
- News
Why Business IT Innovation is So Difficult
- May 2000
- Case
Intel 64 Fund
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Laila Partridge of Intel's Corporate Business Development group has been charged to create a special investment fund to speed the adoption of a new chip architecture. The last architecture upgrade, from 16 to 32 bits, had needed almost a decade to become fully adopted....
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Venture Capital;
Investment;
Technology Adoption;
Innovation and Management;
Computer Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Intel 64 Fund." Harvard Business School Case 800-351, May 2000.
- February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Pet Doctors: 1999
By: Paul A. Gompers and David James Alexander Grant
Describes the decisions confronting David Hodges and Garret Turley about whether to grow their chain of veterinary clinics in the United Kingdom. Turley and Hodges must decide whether to attempt to speed up their acquisition pace and raise venture capital.
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Gompers, Paul A., and David James Alexander Grant. "Pet Doctors: 1999." Harvard Business School Case 200-016, February 2000. (Revised March 2000.)
- 18 Apr 2016
- News
Embracing Agile
- May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known...
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Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga." Harvard Business School Case 205-122, May 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- 08 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Delay as Agenda Setting
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by James J. Anton & Dennis A. Yao
- 01 Nov 2019
- News
Trump to pick Texas cancer doctor to head FDA
- Jun 2015
- Report
America’s Unconventional Energy Opportunity: A Win-Win Plan for the Economy, the Environment, and a Lower-Carbon, Cleaner-Energy Future
America's unconventional gas and oil resources are perhaps the single largest opportunity to improve the trajectory of the nation’s economy, at a time when the prospects for the average American are weaker than experienced in generations. The benefits can be achieved...
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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Tribes still matter
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
How migration makes the world brainier
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to penetrate the market share of some...
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by Martha Lagace