Publications

19 Sep 2021
News

‘A Watershed Moment’: With Public Debuts of Toast and Ginkgo, Boston Is Remaking Its Startup Scene

Web

B2B Sales and Distribution - Course Catalog

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianneledingham/ Ed Boyajian HBS ’90 – Executive Fellow https://www.linkedin.com/in/edboyajian/ Overview: B2B Sales and Distribution will focus on the primary components of managing a large company sales View Details

06 Mar 2017
News

Leading in the Community and the Boardroom

for you,” says Wiley, who served for 15 years as president and CEO of the Partnership, a nonprofit talent management organization for minority professionals in greater Boston. “I want to grow View Details

July 1996
Background Note

The GM's Organizational Challenge: Embedding and Leveraging Capability

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda

Describes how general managers can build organizational capability in their firms. View Details

Keywords: Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy

01 Dec 2019
News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

percent of the class would have known what he was talking about. “Today, it’s more than 50 percent. Students understand that those are important considerations that are going to affect their organizations View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

August 2016 (Revised June 2017)
Supplement

InsideSales.com (B)

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Business Organization; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Design; Salesforce Management; Talent; Talent Management; Sales; Growth and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry; United States

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

with employee preferences. This plan may not be one-size-fits-all across departments or regions, and it should build in some flexibility, given the changing conditions. Clear communication View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new... View Details

June 2017
Article

The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana

This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details

Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation

1974
Book

Organizational Change: An Exploratory Study and Case History

By: Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Cases

July–August 2021
Article

Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?

By: David J. Collis

THE PROBLEM: Seemingly successful new companies struggle to turn a healthy profit. Established firms get disrupted by upstarts. Companies that excel at serving their markets can’t adapt when customers’ tastes shift. THE ROOT CAUSE: All too often, business leaders focus... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Business Model; Value; Value Creation; Opportunities

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the... View Details

October 2022
Article

How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald

How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland

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01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

grateful that I did decide to put myself out there a bit, because my SVMP week truly did change my trajectory. It was impossible to know then, but by submitting the SVMP application and then attending the... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

beads instead of money, enjoy all manner of sports and recreation, bond with staff and fellow guests from around the globe, and forget the pressures of the outside world. But,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

04 Sep 2013
What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

Summing Up How Can Strategic Planning be Adapted to Changing Needs? Strategic planning concepts and the notion of long-range planning will continue to be integral parts of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
Supplement

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

October 2003 (Revised April 2005)
Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Presents an historical overview of Enron's rise and fall and summarizes what is currently known about (1) the evolution of Enron's business model, (2) the organizational processes Enron officials relied on to drive and monitor the business, (3) emergent behavior... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Behavior; Governing and Advisory Boards; Success; Transformation; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States