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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
along with Frank Batten's (MBA '52) Landmark Communications (owner today of the Weather and Travel Channels) and David R. Graham's (MBA '64) Cablecasting Ltd. in Canada. In later years, W. Don Cornwell's (MBA '71) Granite Broadcasting...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
alumni commitment is really cool,” says Shin, adding that the Lockdown experience creates a tightly knit networking community of alumni interested in the startup sector. To create the 2017 team, “Adam and I started reaching out to people...
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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608054-PDF-ENG Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework F. Asís Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 109-079 Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Israel's Cellular Market (A) The case addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of Minister of Communications Moshe Kahlon in 2009–2010. The case highlights the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
$1 billion valuation for the company. Three key dilemmas confronted LinkedIn, however. First, at a time when the "walled garden" model of online community building was under siege, it had to decide how far it should open its...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
the semester. How you begin will set expectations. The tone, the use of the boards, and the spatial distance between you and the students communicate your intentions. How loud you speak matters. It all matters. It matters because the...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
collaboration between HBS and SEAS, Needleman cited inevitable culture clashes between hard-science researchers and market-minded MBA grads. “One thing that I found interesting was that communication can be challenging, both in terms of...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. This new biography of two of America's most influential black leaders is a brilliant analysis of their two different leadership styles and is particularly timely with our...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
in 1949 following a successful postwar experiment with seven secretaries, changed all that. The lively, conversational style of "Pioneer Class Secretary" Robert R.C. Miller's (MBA 6/'48) first submissions sets the stage for years to come:...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,” he tells the class. “It allows...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
case-method style of teaching explain much of the subsequent entrepreneurial success enjoyed by HBS alumni; certainly the real-world record of achievement compiled by HBS graduates would seem to bear that out. From the breakthrough...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
turned on the power in a village in Sierra Leone in 2019, there was communal joy. Poindexter: The chief of the village, he had a stereo, he had a TV, he had a ceiling fan, but he ran all of these things off of a really expensive old...
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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Case 407-050 Gianna Angelopoulous-Daskalaki led the bidding organization that secured the 2004 Olympics for Athens and then later the preparations for those Games. Tracks her leadership style and how she and her team won the bid. After...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
“collective genius” to describe the kind of leadership she saw at Pixar and assembled her own collective to research it. The team included her then–research associate Emily Truelove and Pixar executive Brandeau, who contributed his own understanding of what it was like...
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- March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
DaVita Responds to COVID
By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
Change Management;
Communication;
Talent and Talent Management;
Fairness;
Values and Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Human Resources;
Employee Relationship Management;
Retention;
Wages;
Working Conditions;
Leadership Style;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Culture;
Health Industry;
United States
Gallani, Susanna, and David Lane. "DaVita Responds to COVID." Harvard Business School Case 122-007, March 2022. (Revised March 2024.)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
almost resigned as CEO of GE. READ MORE Dan Morrell: I want to talk about an episode in 2009. This is in the wake of the financial crisis and you guys had just made a dramatic cut to the dividend. You were in a cab with your View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency. We show that brand positioning statements...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Elberse had the unique opportunity to observe Ferguson's management style in a series of visits and in-depth interviews. In this collaborative explication, she details eight parts of Ferguson's "formula" as she observed them and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
for the two years preceding Charron's arrival. By then, founder Claiborne had moved on to other activities, and the company was encumbered by a highly centralized management style and a sense of complacency. When Charron, a marketing...
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Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
style and communication that employees have come to expect. And so, calling an 800 line, talking to somebody who works in a call center, and getting an output of some resources and recommendations just...
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