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- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
the Swedish telecom infrastructure company Ericsson hires a new CEO to bring the former Swedish flagship company back on track. Puts students in the shoes of Carl-Henric Svanberg, an industry outsider and CEO of locks group Assy Abloy, who does not hesitate a moment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
of research and 30 new case studies, The Imperfectionists posits a dynamic approach to developing organizational direction under uncertainty based on harnessing six reinforcing strategic mindsets, which McLean and Conn call curiosity,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that was formed in 1993 - issued a final report that calls for a new regulatory framework to give businesses more flexibility in preventing pollution, long-range steps to stabilize the U.S. population, and American leadership in heading... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
questions correspond to what I call the four basic spans of a job: control, accountability, influence, and support. Each span can be adjusted so that it is narrow or wide or somewhere in between. I think of the adjustments as being made... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Cases & Course MaterialsEmotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count Elie Ofek, Jason Riis, and Paul HamiltonHarvard Business School Case 510-050 Emotiv is getting ready to launch its innovative brain-computer interfacing (BCI) technology. The company has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
provide that type of information and connection. Social tools do. But we have found that companies that try to “go social,” as many of them call it, often fall into four traps. In this article, we look at those traps and share... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
and become the clear technology leader or move ahead with its current offering and focus on getting new customers to penetrate the market as quickly as possible before competition intensified. Some in the company called for devoting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
he disappears for five days. Well, first of all, I've taught a lot. I wrote a book called Seven Lessons for Leading a Crisis. If you're a leader and you're in crisis, you go out right away. Instantly. Howard Schultz did this along with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving that they call “radical... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
unwilling, to invest directly in Turkey because of political risk and government restrictions. The case ends in 1988 when the founder received a report from the management consultancy Bain calling for the firm to reduce the range of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
1986) (Brick Tower Press) This book offers tested solutions to a variety of problems from a multitude of expert sources. The problems discussed are ones most frequently asked about by readers of the Small Business Digest (SBD) during the past 15-plus years. Topics... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
top management must seize hold of the substantive content of the new strategy as well as its operational implementation—a top-down intervention we call deep dive—in order to overcome barriers to change that are manifest in a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
greater competence. August 2013 Business History Review Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
set of analytic and practical challenges arises, which this article explores via three cases: 1) a cross-border, large-dollar complex sales effort requiring interlocking financial, political, and organizational negotiations among dozens... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system.” Nonetheless, the panel’s two Republicans call for reforms, including taking Fannie... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450 million in View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
value-added tax. We're the only developed economy that doesn't do it. We have state and local sales taxes, but we don't have any broad-based value-added tax. I think most tax economists have long thought it's a strange arrow to have kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this essay, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how systems can be modularized. I then explain why mirroring is likely to be a commonly observed organizational pattern and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel