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- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: Free and open source...
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by Lane Lambert
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had...
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- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Khanna: There are many reasons why you can have the rug pulled out from under your feet in developing countries. You have capricious behavior on the parts of opportunistic people, if there are no checks and balances to prevent them from...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
friend, more workers are scaling back, stepping away, or choosing alternative professional opportunities that help them balance these demands. Companies that ignore this emerging crisis risk losing their hardest-to-find and highest-paid...
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- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
doctoral student Julia Adler-Milstein, Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara Singer, and HBS professor Michael W. Toffel examine this question in a hospital setting. Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard This article...
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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
now have to survive on ten percent less for a while. That’s a hardship. I think it’s more manageable than being suddenly out of a job, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder.” FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE For Honeywell, furloughs were the...
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- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
With a pandemic temporarily closing many businesses and stifling consumer demand, whole industries, especially those that recently leveraged their balance sheets to take advantage of near-zero interest rates, are seeing their profits...
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- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
critical thinkers Patterns of behavior strive to persuade othersdefend your positiondownplay weakness present balanced argumentsremain open to alternativesaccept constructive criticism Minority views discouraged or dismissed cultivated...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
executives about how to balance those requirements? A: You are absolutely right—there is a constant tradeoff between managing for the short and long run. I can't speak for Sir Alex, of course, but I think he would say that as a manager,...
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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
magical process. It is knowing that we do not know everything that might be important. It is that insight that leads to the wisdom to look away from the subject of focus and see what there is to be seen. Marvelous discoveries are made in that way." Is this what it...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
boss make a difference? Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have written about "how to manage around a weakness" not by changing people but by balancing "the strengths and weaknesses of each individual." What have been...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
human capital and the machine learning toolbox stand to improve decision-making and product development. But doing so requires careful consideration of the balance between personalization and privacy. At what point do curated online...
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by Kristen Senz
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
may be 20-40 percent lower than you had hoped, but you can still raise plenty of money to buttress your balance sheet and execute more vigorously on steps 1-5 of the “play offense” playbook outlined above. In talking to my best founders...
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by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
to do with the innate nature of the product itself, the features built into it. And if you start with a product that does well on these five factors, then life gets a lot easier. Stefan Thomke How can a company balance creativity and...
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- October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair
By: Francois Brochet
This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks...
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Risk Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Complexity;
Cost Management;
Balance and Stability;
Business Model;
Design;
Stocks;
Crisis Management;
Financial Markets;
Consulting Industry;
Europe
Brochet, Francois. "Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair." Harvard Business School Case 110-029, October 2009. (Revised April 2010.)
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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- July 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (A)
By: Nour Kteily, Deepak Malhotra and David Lane
As founders of the software company Basecamp, Jason Fried and David H. Hansson were used to being the subjects of social media attention. Both maintained active and dedicated Twitter followings for their unique perspectives on management and life. But on April 26,...
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Change;
Communication;
Policy;
Diversity;
Fairness;
Values and Beliefs;
Governance;
Employees;
Working Conditions;
Leading Change;
Leadership Style;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Work-Life Balance;
Labor and Management Relations;
Conflict and Resolution;
Identity;
Social Issues;
Equality and Inequality;
Digital Platforms;
Conflict Management;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Kteily, Nour, Deepak Malhotra, and David Lane. "Trouble at Basecamp: Managing Politics, Polarization, and Conflict in the Workplace (A)." Harvard Business School Case 922-003, July 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
of female managers, and much else. The B Corp movement of the United States—whose businesses set out to balance profits and social purpose—gained little traction in Japan. By September 2021, there were 4,026 certified B Corps in 77...
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- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
more balance While predominantly red and blue executive teams may be an unavoidable consequence of the current social and political climate, companies may be able to do something to bridge the divide. First, says Kempf, they need to be...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
choice." For people not wishing to manage their funds, they are automatically placed in a balanced fund of investments. In India, the public sector in 2004 was transformed "from a defined benefit to a defined contribution...
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by Jim Heskett