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- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the...
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by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
depth, and accessibility—it has become clear it is key to helping companies develop sustainable competitive advantage. “The new attention being given to data today is because suddenly, everywhere, it’s become much cheaper to measure,” says John A. Deighton, the View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are more necessary than ever. Rangan says that when carefully planned...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
scientist who can’t wait to get to the classroom to share the experiment. If you adopt this mindset, students will remain intellectually and spiritually in the classroom with you.” The Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice in...
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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers struggle to match supply with demand. Many e-retailers are urging consumers to “buy early” this holiday season, citing concerns about postal services and shipping. Given capacity constraints placed upon retail stores by many...
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- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
other party and how that party viewed them. Wolfe is a research associate at Princeton, while McGinn is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In her office at Baker Library, McGinn discussed the...
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by Mallory Stark
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
strategy can be powerful. Brian Baker described it this way: "I firmly believe that if I change one measure on my scorecard, change will happen." Baker is saying that View Details
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America's economy, shaped the country's development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The...
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- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
potential use of power, and motives. As Matthew Tuttle suggested, "Many of the traits are ... difficult to see in an interview." One answer to the challenge was suggested by Kirk Richardson: "There is only one true way to...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose...
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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Ross is a...
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- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi’s How to Be An Anti-Racist. I’ve been keen to re-read The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
Community training helps fight Ebola A new case study about Last Mile Health by HBS Senior Lecturer Brian L. Trelstad and V. Kasturi Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, outlines how CEO Raj...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
over the next decade or so, where more and more things that are considered creative breakthroughs will be made by people whose names are never going to be known as famous individuals,” says Amabile, a Baker...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
to make sure these farmers don’t take our jobs.’” Oklahoma dust bowl refugees, San Fernando, California, 1935. (The Farm Security Administration Photograph Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Photo View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
discussion from one point to the next—are remembered often by the legions of MBA students, doctoral candidates, and faculty members Christensen taught during an HBS career that spanned half a century, from the 1940s until his death in...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
more efficient at slow thinking by improving processes for deliberation and making decisions. Do you agree with what Kahneman implies here? Does bureaucracy have its advantages? Is this one of them? What do you think? To Read More: View Details
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by James Heskett