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- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
post-COVID collaboration in organizational cultures reshaped by remote work. Research by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at HBS, and colleagues sheds light on the interactions that were lost during the...
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by Kristen Senz
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
Disagreements don’t have to end discussions. In fact, as researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School discussed at a recent event, engaging with those who hold opposing views can be constructive and lead to new...
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by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
programmatic. Table I-1 summarizes the E and O approaches to organizational change. In the remainder of this chapter we will present Theories E and O in more detail and discuss their benefits and costs. These theories are archetypes....
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
solo founder. This is a highly subjective situation dependent on many factors; some of which I’ll discuss below. Do you need a cofounder? I’ve worked both for and with hundreds of entrepreneurs in the last few decades and on the topic of...
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by Julia Austin
- 02 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women
leadership roles, but also create a lose-lose situation for all women in the workplace, as neither assertiveness nor conforming to stereotypes leads to success. To address these issues, companies will need to reimagine the negotiation...
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by Kristen Senz
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/picking_green_techs_winners_and_losers/ The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership Author:G. Gavetti Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2011) Abstract In this article, it...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
in the 1920s, GM president Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said, "Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the subject here." Heads nodded around the table. "Then," continued Sloan, "I propose we postpone further View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
observes Rosabeth Moss Kanter in a new Harvard Business Review article, "Innovation: The Classic Traps." Kanter, who holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
affect innovation? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Trillion Dollar Coach: Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell (HarperCollins,...
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by James Heskett
- January 2018
- Case
Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
The case describes Blue Harbour Group's investment in Babcock & Wilcox and its transformation into BWX Technologies. In 2004, activist hedge fund Blue Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment...
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Corporate Governance;
Investment Activism;
Leading Change;
Energy Industry;
Construction Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Quinn Pitcher. "Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox." Harvard Business School Case 118-045, January 2018.
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic plan. A third challenge is that most management meetings get...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
increasing diversity and inclusion, encouraging everyone to bring their individuality and unvarnished opinions with them is a good start. Gino, who studies innovative leadership and wrote a 2018 book on successful rulebreakers, Rebel...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- March 24, 2015
- Article
Starbucks' 'Race Together' Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism
By: Aaron Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing trend of "CEO activism." Despite the criticism of that particular initiative, CEO activism—from Shultz to Chick-Fil-A's...
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Leadership;
Social Issues;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Communication Strategy;
Race
Chatterji, Aaron, and Michael W. Toffel. "Starbucks' 'Race Together' Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 24, 2015).
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
experienced non-aligned external members can help to change the dynamics of board discussions to be more objective and constructive. Smaller boards, not dominated by family members, tend to work better. And all board members should be...
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- March 2002 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
September 11th Fund, The: The Creation
By: Jane Wei-Skillern
Describes the entrepreneurial process through which the September 11th Fund was created, developed, and operated, focusing primarily on the furst seven weeks of the fund. This case details the genesis of the fund as a partnership between the United Way of New York City...
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Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Wei-Skillern, Jane. "September 11th Fund, The: The Creation." Harvard Business School Case 302-083, March 2002. (Revised August 2006.)
- January 2016 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM acquired its digital assets. This case discusses major decisions taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to...
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Weather Company;
IBM;
Digital;
Technology;
David Kenny;
Television;
Weather Channel;
Legacy Business;
Mainstream;
Newstream;
Reorganization;
Acquisitions;
Transformation;
Information Technology;
Television Entertainment;
Acquisition;
Consolidation;
Change;
Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016." Harvard Business School Case 316-143, January 2016. (Revised March 2016.)
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
governments create dysfunctional systems that can be predicted to lead to bad behaviors, I see the problem starting with the dysfunctional system. And I see the creating of optimal systems as a key leadership function. Q: Specifically,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
Esty. To that end, readings and classroom discussions in GMP are very different from the Harvard MBA program, and from other HBS leadership programs. Where the MBA program develops functional skills, GMP...
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by Martha Lagace
- 2011
- Book
Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business
The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful...
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Business And Society;
Economic Systems;
Economic Growth;
Leading Change;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business Strategy
Bower, Joseph L., Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. (Published in Chinese as "Qi ye zai jing ji zhong de jue se," Beijing: China Machine Press, 2012. Published in Japanese as ハーバードが教える 10年後に生き残る会社、消える会社, Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013.)
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
leadership to get out of the controversy, to conduct discussions internally to learn from the experience, and to move forward with a clear view of the nature of the issues in which Disney should be involved....
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