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- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
that this makes us inauthentic." As Marlis Krichewsky put it, "Playing with the mask when the situation allows it strengthens the team spirit." Dan Erwin commented, " rather than a single underlying, authentic and true...
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by Jim Heskett
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
had 50/50 experiences with startups, citing remote work, nebulous job descriptions, and lack of fulfillment as their gripes. This role promised solutions to all of those concerns. I reached out to...
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Nonprofit / Government
- Web
The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog
in which you will operate, and on your sense of personal purpose. Course Outline To serve the objectives outlined above, we are planning to organize our term into three principal modules, focused on three View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
development of new frameworks. Fierce argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks." An excerpt...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
into being. I write about in the book, my freshman year at Yale, the freshman football players. We staged a coup against the upperclassmen because the team really sucked, and the upperclassmen were just...
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- January 2014 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good?
By: Rebecca Henderson, Raffaella Sadun, Aldo Sesia and Russell Eisenstat
Henry Schein Inc., a distributor of supplies to dentist, physician, and veterinary practices, had sales approaching $9 billion and employed nearly 16,000 people. The company had experienced impressive growth under the leadership of Stanley Bergman and his executive... View Details
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Leadership Development;
Strategy Execution;
Performance Management;
Corporate Culture;
Social Responsibility;
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Joint Ventures;
Partnerships;
Health Care Industry;
Healthcare Logistics Industry;
Competitive Advantage;
Strategy;
Leadership;
Global Strategy;
Selection and Staffing;
Management Style;
Organizational Culture;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Health Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
China;
Europe;
United States
Henderson, Rebecca, Raffaella Sadun, Aldo Sesia, and Russell Eisenstat. "Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good?" Harvard Business School Case 714-450, January 2014. (Revised January 2014.)
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Kraus comes in. Kraus teaches the second-year MBA course Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL) and is currently helping to develop a similar Executive Education program called Crossroads. The...
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- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
provided guides on specific discussion topics such as defining personal success, developing an entrepreneurial mindset and business ethics, to cover over the course of the program. But we left it very...
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Margie Kelley
- March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer
Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel...
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Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Stuart, Toby, and David Kiron. "Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer." Harvard Business School Case 808-112, March 2008. (Revised June 2008.)
- 21 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
years instead of the traditional two years for an MBA or MPP alone. I also knew I wanted to start or join an early stage and socially focused venture after graduation that would likely not pay me as well as...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
in" to a set of ideas on a broad scale, why should we expect a leader to be able to address the downside of buy in, which some have come to regard as "groupthink," the creation View Details
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by James Heskett
- February 2017
- Supplement
The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the...
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Diamonds;
Go-to-market Strategy;
Secondary Market;
Willingness To Pay;
Pilot Program;
Strategy Development;
Strategy Execution;
Scope;
Marketing;
Advertising;
Branding;
Customer Value;
Pawn Shops;
Jewelry;
Supply And Demand;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Vertical Integration;
Advertising Campaigns;
Value Creation;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Advertising Industry;
Mining Industry;
United States;
United Kingdom;
Africa;
Botswana;
South Africa;
Namibia
- 2013
- Working Paper
Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs
By: Raffaella Sadun
The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differs across firms. We provide some answers by developing a new survey...
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Management Style;
Performance;
Outcome or Result;
Management Teams;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Sadun, Raffaella. "Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs." Working Paper, 2013.
- October 2012
- Case
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer (Abridged)
By: Toby Stuart and James Weber
Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Stuart, Toby, and James Weber. "Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 813-029, October 2012.
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS
with one of my best friends at HBS, Rebekah Foster (MBA 2022), was in many ways the capstone of my HBS experience. I had the opportunity to use many of the concepts covered...
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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
Amabile was on the faculty of Brandeis University) entailed a survey using a previously developed and tested questionnaire. In exchange for the company's willingness to open its doors to the project, Amabile...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
and Engineering (CSE). I deferred my EC year to attend the program at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The summer before my CSE master’s program started, I participated in the Rock Summer Fellowship, where I...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
accessible in other parts of the world can take on greater sensitivity at this stage of the Asia Pacific's economic restructuring. The challenge is to balance this sensitivity....
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- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
critical to enable brands to manage this risk.” Toffel’s second study, Monitoring Global Supply Chains with Short and Georgetown University McDonough School of Business Professor (and former HBS doctoral student) Andrea R. Hugill, looks...
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by Michael Blanding