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- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
early weeks (the man does not let up!), the students come to appreciate the intensity and rapid-fire humor of their teacher. Clearly, he cares. A lot. And by the end of the semester, something transformative has happened: They are better...
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- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
backlash from other organizational members. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/mcqxpioCi4O4ZaScUhLN][/div] In response to the broader perspective offered by his team’s devil’s advocate, one CEO shared that he took proposed...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
working with HBS professor Michael Chu on a microfinance case involving the largest concrete manufacturer in Mexico, CEMEX, and its self-construct housing program for families whose incomes average $3,780 per year. CEMEX has over 80,000...
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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who don't compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do exist. Their insights can help other organizations weather the current crisis, says HBS professor emeritus...
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- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
fiscal deficits and, most of all, in cumulative current account deficits (and debt). We need to deal with these issues now if we're going to maintain our competitive advantage. Q: Thinking back to Michael Porter's The Competitive...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)...
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- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
International Air Transport Association Vision 2050
IATA asked 35 strategic thinkers to develop this vision for the next 40 years for the airline industry. The group benefited greatly by the inspirational and strategic leadership and wisdom of Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew. And Harvard University Professor...
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Porter, Michael E. "International Air Transport Association Vision 2050."
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. By Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and View Details
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation...
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- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
however, as interesting as the phenomenon described by Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano in their book, Platform Leadership. They include: Did platform leaders set out to create vehicles View Details
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by James Heskett
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. This...
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- 24 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Brexit is a Big Deal
The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic. Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine of...
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by John Quelch
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
reporting of financial and nonfinancial performance in order to improve sustainable strategy. HBS senior lecturer Robert G. Eccles and coauthor Michael P. Krzus explain the benefits and value of the One Report method. Plus: book excerpt....
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- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and...
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by Danielle Kost
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Business; and Monica Higgins, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders across an Industry; and Michael Porter coauthored Redefining Health Care. By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry. —Richard...
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- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
Power of Conversational Leadership Published: July 23, 2012 Communication is always a challenge, especially in multinational corporations. Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind discuss why it makes sense to adopt the principles of...
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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30...
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
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- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Healthcare Michael Porter is considered by many to be the world's foremost authority on competition and strategy. He discusses the need for fundamental reform in the way the United States delivers...
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by Sean Silverthorne