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- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
inaccurate and increasingly troublesome. Management is a set of well-known processes that help organizations produce reliable, efficient, and predictable results. Really good management helps us do well what... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
status and manage tricky processes under pressure. For example, how to get a timely board resolution to temporarily tap into personal funds to make payroll during the SVB situation could translate into how to fast-track a decision on how... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
new entirely. Chasing after the success of your competition can put you in a position of constantly copying instead of innovating. To make your company or your offering distinct, you need to be more... View Details
- Article
Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members
By: Suraj Srinivasan
I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange... View Details
Keywords: Outcome or Result; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Lawsuits and Litigation; Labor; Markets; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Cost; Reputation
Srinivasan, Suraj. "Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members." Journal of Accounting Research 43, no. 2 (May 2005): 291–334.
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the... View Details
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
he observes. But there may be the practical issue of money. “Although startups don’t often offer as competitive a salary as established companies,” Rahil notes, “HBS has a Summer Fellows Program that provides funding to students founding View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
loss—which is how companies often gauge success. As such, they tend to view themselves as overhead, and they paradoxically try to justify their existence by falling into adversarial policing roles in an attempt to cut costs for the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
ultimately set the new standard of leadership in this era, never wavering from their purpose and values. They became role models for the business community by serving society through their organizations, strengthening their View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
business faster and cheaper. I say may, because there is surprisingly little hard evidence to support these assumptions. Trust may facilitate the implementation of strategy. Doesn't it stand to reason that if levels of trust between... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Transparency, the concept if not the reality, is all the rage in business circles. If you knew why a company charged a certain price for a product, would you be more willing to pay it? If your boss confessed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, money and finance, risk... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
I am now on the halfway point of my internship and I would like to use this post to share three of the most relevant experiences I have had in the last few weeks at Zalando. 1. Management Board speaks about Diversity As I mentioned on my... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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The Role of Leaders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics The Role of Leaders The Role of Leaders You can’t outsource strategy. A key role of View Details
- January 1993 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (Consolidated)
The setting is a food manufacturing company that has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum, the president has used information technology as one element in his program of transition. The case focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (Consolidated)." Harvard Business School Case 193-040, January 1993. (Revised July 1993.)
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
where sustainability is at the core; others are interested in an organization where sustainability might be a newer initiative. A common question from MBAs is how to decide what type of company to pursue- whether an early stage start up,... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
business publications as one of the companies that helped to make the Internet what it is today. After leaving Open Market Shikhar has been the founder, CEO or Chairman of... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
through. The central dilemma is this: Should the co-founders pull the plug on the company or invest more time and money to try to turn it around? When and according to which criteria should Portz make such a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
at Schneider Electric, which is based in France, but does a third of its business in Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Unfortunately, it's hard to persuade people to institute those energy-saving measures. "Human beings don't like to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- September 2015
- Supplement
Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)
By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
This (B) case takes up the story of the Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Afghanistan
Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-070, September 2015.
- 25 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
Get the Scoop on Date Release at HBS
27th for first-year students, but given busy travel schedules in the fall, many companies like to make their plans early. How does the process work? Companies participating in... View Details