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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
larger organization. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-upside-to-large-competitors/ December 2014 Small Group Research Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information-Processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Launch Codes
Viewing failure as an existential crisis: “It’s the teams that look at failure as a learning opportunity and not as an endgame that succeed.” #4 Not knowing when to pivot: “If... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a... View Details
- March 2023
- Teaching Plan
Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-014. View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations” The leadership View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
behavior by entrepreneurs? Noam Wasserman: Splitting equity with your cofounders is a prime example. My data, drawn mostly from high-tech and life-science startups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture's first... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 07 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Class of 2015
to impact the broader team or organization. Warmth first, then competence. You must stay vigilant and listen to others this will keep you alert to when the problem is you. History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.... View Details
- July 2018
- Teaching Note
Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail
By: Ryan Raffaelli
In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
- May 2013 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney
By: Das Narayandas, Kerry Herman and Lisa Mazzanti
In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry; United States
Narayandas, Das, Kerry Herman, and Lisa Mazzanti. "Ron Johnson: Retail at Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney." Harvard Business School Case 513-103, May 2013. (Revised April 2015.)
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
field organizations was growing. The senior team was slow to make decisions, and no one took responsibility for the performance of the developing businesses. A lack of openness lies behind many failures to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
and welcoming organizations. It is widely recognized that diversity in teams has a positive impact on an organization’s output. Therefore, attracting and hiring employees from different backgrounds (including, but not limited to, race,... View Details
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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects Reimbursement grants are awarded on a case-by-case, funds-available basis. For a team with one HBS student: maximum grants will be $1,000 for eligible expenses, based on student... View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
Launching into “career discovery” mode
since my first blog, I can say I’m actually much further down the “career discovery” road than I thought I’d be. For me, Career Teams and conversations with EC’s have been the most pivotal tools in my search thus far. Career View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
could restore the data in a couple of hours. That solution didn’t satisfy the client, whose sales team would be idle until the system was fixed. That was the moment things shifted for Medina. Outreach had moved beyond the fledgling... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Mel Martin
Captain Michael Davidson of the container ship SS El Faro was determined to make his planned shipping trip on time—but a hurricane was approaching his intended path. To succeed, Davidson and his fellow officers must plot a course to avoid the storm in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Power Dynamics; Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Failure; Groups and Teams; Rank and Position; Decision Choices and Conditions; Shipping Industry; United States
Fuller, Joseph B., and Mel Martin. "Into the Raging Sea: Final Voyage of the SS El Faro." Harvard Business School Case 321-014, January 2021. (Revised March 2022.)
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Care transition patients to reduce frequency of readmission Primary and psychiatric care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities Behavioral health for post-traumatic... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business Review You Need an Innovation Strategy By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
fighter-pilot tests. But if finding the right stuff is a good way to identify top talent, why is it so common to see executives with a successful track record in one company coming into another company with great fanfare, only to be quickly dubbed a View Details
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
and team creativity, entrepreneurship, organizations, and society. To develop a research agenda that identifies new questions and approaches relevant to both academics and practitioners. The underlying assumption of the colloquia was that... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
tasks. This course will emphasize learning from failure. A running theme throughout the course is overcoming adversity and learning from personal failure. Students are challenged to grapple with their own prior failures while analyzing... View Details