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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
firms and reports on a survey of the structure and staffing of more than 600 headquarters in Europe, USA, Japan, and Chile. It explores the extent to which corporate headquarters are contingent on size of the company, corporate strategy...
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Martha Lagace
- September 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling
By: Ethan Bernstein, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats and Luke Hassall
With 24,000 staff and over 300 stores, Belk Inc. sought to replace its entirely manual labor scheduling system with an automated software solution from Reflexis. Belk hoped the upgrade would simplify scheduling, reduce time employees spent in non-customer-facing roles,...
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Retail;
Scheduling;
Local Autonomy;
Automation;
Metrics;
Organizational Change;
Human Resource Management;
Process Improvement;
Performance Measurement;
Transparency;
Southern United States;
Retailing;
Department Stores;
System Outsourced Services;
Employee Relationship Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Change Management;
Governance Controls;
Resource Allocation;
Service Operations;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Applications and Software;
Family Business;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Bernstein, Ethan, Saravanan Kesavan, Bradley Staats, and Luke Hassall. "Belk: Towards Exceptional Scheduling." Harvard Business School Case 415-023, September 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
facilitator training. Flora passionately advocates for the benefits of experiential learning. She has designed, directed, and staffed many experiential conferences, simulations, and retreats for executives on the dynamics of...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
executives in the core businesses, rather than ambitious young MBAs, should be assigned to growth initiatives; 3) Assembling the wrong team and staffing up prematurely. CEOs should focus on capabilities, not who's available, and staff up...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
teach a professional code of ethics similar to those promoted in law, education, science, and medicine, that the staffing of managerial positions be guided by considerations of moral character and ethical performance, and that a corporate...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case Reimagining the MBA Related Links...
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government approval of the first 100-percent American-owned medical manufacturing license since the American occupation and took over the joint venture. I learned from the experience to assure the loyalty of those working for me. I left Baxter, and acquired a US...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
potential choices, learning from small samples, using prototypes to test business models, tracking progress through nonfinancial measures, and knowing how and when to pull the plug on a new venture; 2) Find the best combination of old and new operational processes by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
not solved) by walk-in retail health-care organizations such as the MinuteClinic, staffed by nurse practitioners, inside CVS/pharmacy stores. “The clinics and nurse practitioners have specific protocols to follow for common, nonemergency...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
staffing the facility and then discusses the ongoing operational and financial challenges of operating a heart center in Africa. Can this model be sustained? Can Cameroon develop its own capability to deliver advanced cardiac services...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809091 Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff Harvard Business School Case 409-049 The case presents a biographical portrait of Yoshiko Shinohara who founded Tempstaff in 1973, one of the largest...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
year, because my goal was to teach 1,000,000 girls to code, and I was going to keep growing and keep growing. Now, I realized at some point that, now, running the largest summer camp in the country or the world is really hard in terms of, from a View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
been your approach to full-time versus part-time versus contract? And how does that staffing strategy link into the remote capabilities?Wallach: So in terms of strategy, our overall goal was always to provide an environment where...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Music, WEA (Warner), and UMVD (Universal). Each conglomerate owns, in part or in full, various "labels" - fully staffed companies that sign and groom artists, guide the album production process, and market the final product. Labels such...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
children’s mental health ser-vices. In 2004, Youth Villages sought Bridgespan’s help in developing a strategic growth plan that charted expansion into six states, called for building a business development unit, and introduced new approaches to local View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
workers. Moreover, multinational companies pursued faster market growth abroad, often staffing these growth markets with their best and brightest. These trends were the real dark clouds on the horizon, with the immigration system being a...
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- January 2018
- Case
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed...
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Child Care;
Childcare;
Day Care;
Daycare;
Early Childhood Education;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Selection and Staffing;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Education Industry;
United States;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- April 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Teaching Note
Netflix’s Culture: Binge or Cringe?
By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-096.
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Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Recruitment;
Resignation and Termination;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Management Style;
Media;
Business Processes;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Expectations;
Performance Productivity;
Creativity;
Business Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Video Game Industry;
North America;
California;
Canada;
Europe;
Middle East;
Africa;
Asia;
Latin America