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- November 2020
- Case
The Roca Brothers: Innovation in Gastronomy
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Chef Joan Roca, sommelier Josep Roca and pastry chef Jordi Roca were three brothers based in Girona, Spain whose complementary skills, collective ability, and relentless drive for innovation had brought worldwide fame and awards to their restaurant, El Celler de Can...
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- November 2020
- Case
Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results
To explore determinants of new venture performance, the CEOs of 470 early-stage startups were surveyed regarding a broad range of factors related to their venture’s customer value proposition, product management, marketing, technology and operations, financial...
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Keywords:
Startups;
Survey Research;
Performance Analysis;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance;
Analysis;
Business Startups;
Failure;
Surveys
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-057, October 2020.
- October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
The Akamai Technical Academy
By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Barnett
By January 2020, Akamai Technologies had completed eight Akamai Technical Academy training programs in the U.S., Costa Rica, and Poland. Academy programs trained individuals without a traditional STEM degree for technically oriented jobs at Akamai. With aims to improve...
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Keywords:
Competency And skills;
Experience And Expertise;
Talent And Talent management;
Demographics;
Education;
Ethics;
Jobs And Positions;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Costa Rica;
Poland
Applegate, Lynda M., and James Barnett. "The Akamai Technical Academy." Harvard Business School Case 821-021, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- August 2020
- Article
Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Rajshree Agarwal
The use of machine learning (ML) for productivity in the knowledge economy requires considerations of important biases that may arise from ML predictions. We define a new source of bias related to incompleteness in real time inputs, which may result from strategic...
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Rajshree Agarwal. "Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation." Strategic Management Journal 41, no. 8 (August 2020): 1381–1411.
- July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko
For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,...
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Keywords:
Buildings And Facilities;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Construction;
Geographic Location;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms And management;
Housing;
Leadership Style;
management Succession;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Family Ownership;
Family And Family Relationships;
Urban Development;
Customization And Personalization;
Real Estate Industry;
Maharashtra;
India;
United States
Wing, Christina R., and John Masko. "Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 621-018, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- July 2020
- Background Note
Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders
Leaders use seven leadership skills in conceiving and managing change projects, whether innovations in established organizations, culture and process changes, or entrepreneurial ventures for industry or social change. The skills leaders need are different at various...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-019, July 2020.
- July 2020
- Article
Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education...
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Keywords:
management;
Hospitals;
Mortality;
Education;
Health Care And Treatment;
Performance Improvement;
Business Education;
management Practices And Processes
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen. "Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare." Review of Economics and Statistics 102, no. 3 (July 2020): 506–517.
- July–August 2020
- Article
Make the Most of Your Relocation
Although the COVID-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Geographic mobility can pay off...
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Keywords:
Relocation;
Mobility;
Personal Development And Career;
Geographic Location;
Work-life Balance
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Make the Most of Your Relocation." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 4 (July–August 2020): 104–113.
- June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Communication Intention And Meaning;
Communication Strategy;
Forms Of Communication;
Announcements;
Decision Making;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Judgments;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Governance Controls;
Human Resources;
Resignation And Termination;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
management;
Business Or Company management;
Crisis management;
management Practices And Processes;
management skills;
management Style;
management Systems;
Risk management;
Time management;
Markets;
Demand And Consumers;
Market Platforms;
Supply And Industry;
Duopoly And Oligopoly;
Industry Structures;
Operations;
Product Development;
Organizations;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome Or Result;
Failure;
Success;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Problems And Challenges;
Relationships;
Business And Community Relations;
Business And Government Relations;
Business And Stakeholder Relations;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Safety;
Strategy;
Transportation;
Air Transportation;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
Africa;
Ethiopia;
Asia;
Indonesia;
North And Central America;
United States;
Seattle;
Chicago
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?" Harvard Business School Case 320-104, June 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- June 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley and John Masko
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Race;
Gender;
Leadership Style;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Change;
Prejudice And Bias;
Decision Making;
Personal Development And Career;
Technology Industry;
California
Neeley, Tsedal, and John Masko. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-071, June 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- June 2020
- Supplement
Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has...
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Keywords:
Race;
Gender;
Leadership Style;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Change;
Prejudice And Bias;
Decision Making;
Personal Development And Career;
Technology Industry;
California
Neeley, Tsedal, and Briana Richardson. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-073, June 2020.
- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work
By: Christopher Stanton, William R. Kerr, James Palano and Kendall Smith
This case touches on the topics of project-based work, agile methodology, and skill and talent management through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant’s journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new...
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- 2020
- Book
Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You
By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.
We offer a different worldview. We argue that... View Details
We offer a different worldview. We argue that... View Details
Keywords:
Leadership Skills;
Belonging;
Leadership;
management skills;
Trust;
Organizational Culture
Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- Article
Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?
By: R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al
We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern...
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Keywords:
Time-driven Activity-based Costing;
Health Care And Treatment;
Cost;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Efficiency;
India;
United States
Kaplan, R. S., F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry, and K. Brayton, et al. "Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?" American Heart Journal 224 (June 2020): 148–155.
- April 15, 2020
- Article
Designating Certain Post-Acute Care Facilities As COVID-19 Skilled Care Centers Can Increase Hospital Capacity And Keep Nursing Home Patients Safer
By: Leemore S. Dafny and Steven S. Lee
As the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide continues to grow, many hospitals will need to convert acute care beds into intensive care beds and discharge stable patients to post-acute care settings such as nursing homes. In addition, nursing homes unable to care for...
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Dafny, Leemore S., and Steven S. Lee. "Designating Certain Post-Acute Care Facilities As COVID-19 Skilled Care Centers Can Increase Hospital Capacity And Keep Nursing Home Patients Safer." Health Affairs Blog (April 15, 2020).
- 2020
- Working Paper
No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the...
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Keywords:
Assortative Matching;
Productivity;
Global Buyers;
Readymade Garments;
management;
Employees;
Performance Productivity
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-103, March 2020.
- February 2020
- Case
Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Dessain and Emer Moloney
Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L’Oréal. He is now responsible for the hiring, development, promotion, and retention of 83,000 employees worldwide. The highly successful...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Business Headquarters;
Business Divisions;
Business Organization;
Change;
Change management;
Transformation;
Competency And skills;
Experience And Expertise;
Talent And Talent management;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Gender;
Nationality;
Multinational Firms And management;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Recruitment;
Retention;
Selection And Staffing;
Innovation And management;
Jobs And Positions;
Employment;
Human Capital;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
management Practices And Processes;
Marketing;
Brands And Branding;
Product Marketing;
Organizations;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Personal Development And Career;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Problems And Challenges;
Networks;
Social Psychology;
Attitudes;
Power And Influence;
Social And Collaborative Networks;
Business Strategy;
Advertising Industry;
Beauty And Cosmetics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
France;
Paris
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Vincent Dessain, and Emer Moloney. "Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal." Harvard Business School Case 420-106, February 2020.
- February 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work
By: Christopher Stanton, William R. Kerr, James Palano and Kendall Smith
This case touches on the topics of project-based work, agile methodology, and skill and talent management through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant’s journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Technology;
Talent And Talent management;
Business Model;
Transformation
Stanton, Christopher, William R. Kerr, James Palano, and Kendall Smith. "Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 820-093, February 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Future of Executive Development: The CLO's Compass and The Executive Programs Designer's Guide
By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive education worldwide has entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and communication—while the demand for managerial skills is growing. The forces of disintermediation, disaggregation, and decoupling are creating...
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Keywords:
Digitalization;
Executive Education;
Disruption;
Leadership Development;
management skills;
Curriculum And Courses;
Online Technology;
Design
Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Das Narayandas. "The Future of Executive Development: The CLO's Compass and The Executive Programs Designer's Guide." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-060, November 2019.
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