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- February 2021
- Case
Brainlab: Imaging A MedTech Future
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Gregory P. Licholai and Federica Gabrieli
Can Brainlab, a privately held firm, compete with giants like Medtronic and Amazon in delivering the Digital Operating Room of the future? The CEO is pondering solutions for secure exchange of medical information, pricing a new robotic imaging device, and reorganizing...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Surgery;
Robotics;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Health;
Health Care;
Health Care And Treatment;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation And Management;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Private Healthcare;
Software;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Technology Platform;
europe;
Germany;
Acquisition;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Growth And Development;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Health Care And Treatment;
Health;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation And Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Software;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Health Industry;
europe;
Germany;
Munich
- 2020
- Working Paper
From Online Content to Offline Results: Effects of a Best Practices Initiative on an Enterprise Social Network
By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
We examine the effects of a best practices initiative on an enterprise social network (ESN) with a natural field experiment in a large grocery store chain. Our results do not show an immediate improvement in sales, but do show 3.67-percent higher sales for the...
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- February 2021
- Case
Lidya: Bringing Nigerian FinTech Innovation to Global Small and Medium Enterprises
By: Lauren Cohen and Spencer C.N. Hagist
Lidya CEO Tunde Kehinde must size up options for the expansion of his novel lending practices that drastically reduce the credit cycle in his developing Nigeria, and determine if expansion into Eastern Europe will prove successful or disasterous.
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- February 2021
- Article
Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems
By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman
Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
- 2021
- Article
The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe
By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable...
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- January 2021
- Case
Ocado Group: Ready for the Future
By: Jose B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred
Keywords:
Growth And Development;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation And Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation Leadership;
Strategy;
Disruption;
Disruptive Innovation;
Online Technology;
Consumer Behavior;
Crisis Management;
Customer Value And Value Chain;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry;
Technology Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States;
europe
- January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
TCS: From Physical Offices to Borderless Work
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Malini Sen
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, is a subsidiary of one of India’s most reputed conglomerates, the Tata Group. In 2020, TCS was valued at $144.7 billion, the highest for any company in the IT sector,...
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- January 2021
- Case
Aptiv PLC Board of Directors (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Aptiv’s board must decide whether a joint venture with an auto maker is the right next step in the company’s efforts to develop and commercialize a production-ready autonomous driving system. While many commentators believed that Aptiv’s self-driving technologies had...
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Keywords:
Automotive Industry;
Bankruptcy Reorganization;
Board Of Directors;
Board Committees;
Board Decisions;
Board Dynamics;
Corporate Boards;
Innovation And Strategy;
Legal Aspects Of Business;
Spin Off;
Strategic Alliances;
Strategic Change;
Strategic Evolution;
Supplier Relationships;
Technological Change;
Corporate Governance;
Governing And Advisory Boards;
Innovation Strategy;
Going Public;
Joint Ventures;
Leadership;
Restructuring;
Technological Innovation;
Transformation;
Auto Industry;
europe;
United States
- 2021
- Chapter
International Business History and the Strategy of Multinational Enterprises: How History Matters
By: Geoffrey Jones and Teresa da Silva Lopes
This chapter provides an overview of the evolution of international business over the long-run as well as the strategies of MNEs. It highlights how strategies became more complex over time with MNEs moving from being coordinators of resources and managers of...
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- December 2020
- Teaching Plan
George Soros: The Stateless Statesman
By: Geoffrey Jones and Grace Ballor
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Streamlining a Turnaround
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Nancy Boghossian Staples
Facing a significant decline in revenues in 2016, David Gwilliam, Head of Transformation at PepsiCo UK introduced a new way of working (“Responsive Working”), which encompasses a set of work practices and some new team structures. The work practices comprise a set of...
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- December 2020
- Case
France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring
These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devasting impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."
This case series follows the evolution of France Telecom... View Details
This case series follows the evolution of France Telecom... View Details
Keywords:
Health ＆ Wellness;
Human Resource Management;
Strategic Change;
Leadership & Corporate Accountability;
Leadership And Change Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Change;
Restructuring;
Crime And Corruption;
Ethics;
Health;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Labor;
Labor And Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
Law;
Social Psychology;
Strategy;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Organizations;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Culture;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
europe;
European Union
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (B): A Wave of Staff Suicides
In the B case we learn that at least 19 France Telecom employees took their own lives between 2006 and 2009, 12 others attempted suicide, and eight suffered from serious depression for reasons reportedly related to work. Some of these deaths occurred in public places,...
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Keywords:
Change;
Crime And Corruption;
Ethics;
Health;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Labor And Management Relations;
Labor Unions;
Law;
Social Psychology;
Strategy;
Leadership Style;
Organizations;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Crisis Management;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
europe;
European Union
- December 2020
- Supplement
France Télécom (C): An Unprecedented Trial
In the C case we learn that former CEO Didier Lombard, Deputy Chief Executive Louis-Pierre Wenes, Human Resources Head Olivier Barberot and France Telecom itself were charged for institutional harassment by French authorities, a first for a CAC 40 company. In December...
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Keywords:
Human Behavior;
Human Dignity;
Human Resource Practices;
Corporate Change And Sustainability;
Corporate Culture;
Strategic Corporate Decisions;
Strategic Change;
Strategic Decision Making;
Emotion;
Management Challenges;
Management Practices And Processes;
Corporate Accountability;
Organizational Culture;
Human Resources;
Crisis Management;
Law;
Courts And Trials;
Labor;
Labor And Management Relations;
Employees;
Well-being;
Telecommunications Industry;
europe;
European Union
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104.
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- 2020
- Chapter
Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism
By: G. Jones
This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of...
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- 2020
- Book
China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia
By: Marijk C. van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai Liu and Simon Marginson
The global order, based on international governance and multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on...
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- 2020
- Chapter
Introduction: China’s Rise and the New Silk Road in Global Context
By: William C. Kirby, Marijk C. van der Wende, Nian Cai Liu and Simon Marginson
The introduction prefaces how an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Europe, China, the USA, Russia, and Australia investigate how academic mobility and cooperation is taking shape along the New Silk Road and what difference it will make, if any,...
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Keywords:
Higher Education;
Global Range;
China;
europe;
Higher Education;
Global Range;
Education Industry;
China;
europe