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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
is editor-at-large for the Harvard Business School Publishing Company. Previously, he was the company's editorial director and the senior vice president in charge of its publishing division. From early 1997 until his appointment to his... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
spends approximately one-third of its net income on R&D and employs nearly 3,000 researchers. At Natura, an innovation cycle starts with a monthly meeting among the company's three presidents, its marketing director, and the R&D View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Case 319-046 The Weir Group: Reforming Executive Pay (A) In February 2018, the Remuneration Committee together with the full Board of Directors of the Scotland-based engineering company The Weir Group had to decide whether to seek a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
yourselves. About the Authors Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Gamze D. Yucaoglu is the assistant director of the School's Middle East and North Africa Research... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
translation of Ratan Tata's (chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, managing director of Tata Motors into the Nano Project. The case raises questions around breaking the price-quality barrier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
economicus, model of human behavior that treats managers as selfish maximizers of personal wealth and power. The Homo economicus model implies that a firm's board of directors can best further stockholders' interests by (a) selecting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
outside directors and separating the CEO from the President is actually the logic (if not quite the reality) behind the German two-tiered board. As before 1933, I think we have a lot to learn from one another. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28 percent of the company's stock altogether, withheld their votes for the 30 percent of directors that they could vote on as a sign of protest against the management of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
business models-a private practice and an academic faculty practice—within the confines of the orthopaedics department of a single medical center. Students assume the role of Neela Wilson, Executive Director of Rittenhouse Medical Center,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
example, those with a talented director or well-known actor) also receive more advertising. In this study, we use data on a movie's stock price as it trades on the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation, to study the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
serving as the School's Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Planning and Development, and Steve was Director of the MBA program. By the time we had a chance to think seriously about this project again, in the late '90s, we came to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
enough to cover costs of safety improvements. Sridevi Kalavakolanu, a Wal-Mart director of ethical sourcing, told attendees the company wouldn't share the cost, according to Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
broadly in one the world's richest nations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608065 Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads Harvard Business School Case 503-112 Three managing directors at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
http://hbr.org/product/building-a-high-performance-culture-at-idfc/an/114077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-076 Cycle for Survival (A) Katie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School. Morriss (HBS MBA '04), the cofounder and managing... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
As executive director of Florida's aquarium project in Tampa from 1987 to 1993, for example, James M. Stuart (MBA '69) used spiritual practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG—a Rs 8.9... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace