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- 28 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University
- September 2003 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
A Pain in the Hip
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Describes in detail the process of diagnosing the cause of a sore hip in a young girl. Referred to the emergency room by her pediatrician, the child is subjected to a set of diagnostic tests over a two-day period, each designed to reduce the uncertainty surrounding the...
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Keywords:
Production;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J. "A Pain in the Hip." Harvard Business School Case 604-012, September 2003. (Revised October 2010.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger
This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details
Keywords:
Curriculum and Courses;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership Development;
Goals and Objectives;
Research and Development;
Attitudes;
Perception;
Technology;
United States
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari Granger. "Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-124, October 2010.
- 08 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Elizabeth Lyons, UC San Diego School of Global Policy & Strategy
- Research Summary
The Transparency of Ethical Behavior
(with Max Bazerman, Karim Kassam, and Neeru Paharia)
This research analyzes how unethical behavior is viewed when performed... View Details
This research analyzes how unethical behavior is viewed when performed... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
16 New Business Books You Need to Read in 2020
- 18 Jul 2013
- News
The Two-Minute Game that Reveals How People Perceive You
- Web
Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms
Choose a subject area: Digital Transformation Marketing Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society Featured Courses AI Essentials for Business Professors...
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- May 2006 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Dan Heath
Jeremy Moon, CEO of Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding U.S. and European markets vs. broadening his attack to include China. If he enters China, should he continue his...
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Product Positioning;
Global Strategy;
Expansion;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Market Entry and Exit;
Marketing Strategy;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
China;
United States;
Europe
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Dan Heath. "Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision." Harvard Business School Case 806-195, May 2006. (Revised June 2006.)
- 04 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Understanding Conformity: An Experimental Investigation
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by B. Douglas Bernheim & Christine Exley
- September 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert...
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Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News
Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the...
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- December 2015
- Article
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor and Rory McDonald
For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"...
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Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald. "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" Harvard Business Review 93, no. 12 (December 2015): 44–53.
- Web
Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
Explore Subject 3 Courses Credential of Readiness (CORe) Designed to help you achieve fluency in the language of business, CORe is a business fundamentals program that combines Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial...
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Marco Iansiti
Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration,is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS.
Prof. Iansiti's research examines the digital transformation of companies and... View Details
- October 2010
- Case
Scollon Productions: Working with a Bunch of Characters
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr
As the sole female employee in an 11 person production shop, Lisa Ocheltree complained about being subjected to crass sexual "jokes" and antics; after being discharged, she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer, Scollon Productions, alleging...
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- 30 Jan 2022
- News
Rahul Bajaj: “To Provide Continuity, That Is What an Owner Does”
- 2018
- Working Paper
Conceptions of Ethics in the Cannabis Industry: The Case of Boston, MA
By: Kristin Sippl
Work in progress exploring the consumer demand for and conceptualizations of social, economic, and environmental ethics in the emerging cannabis industry, and the private sector’s and civil society’s response. Draws on interviews and fieldwork from Portland, OR,...
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Sippl, Kristin. "Conceptions of Ethics in the Cannabis Industry: The Case of Boston, MA." Working Paper, September 2018. (Work in Progress.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations
By: Jennifer Brown and Dylan Minor
We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a theory in which experts extract surplus based on the value of their firm's brand and their own skills. Using sales complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded...
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Brown, Jennifer, and Dylan Minor. "Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences across Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-022, August 2015.
- 05 May 2013
- News