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- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we suggest that the differences in prior findings may be due to the failure to separate the processes of knowledge acquisition...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
did not achieve its launch targets.1 They realized that a reason for the initial failure was that the company had used an existing channel. This channel was well suited to take another product—the Rohm and Haas 886 liquid biocide—to a...
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
recipient even though amounts are paid to the loan holder. Upon receiving an award, recipients will be required to complete tax forms for submission to the School. Failure to supply these forms within 30 days from notification of award...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win by Chris Kuenne (MBA 1989) and John Danner (HBR Press) Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, but the most important factor is the...
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- April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Unleashing Human Magic at Best Buy
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Sunil Gupta and Amram Migdal
The case examines the transformation of Best Buy under CEO Hubert Joly's leadership from 2012. Facing significant business challenges, including competition from online and physical retailers, Joly implemented the "Renew Blue" turnaround strategy, which focused on...
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Change Management;
Transformation;
Transition;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Communication Strategy;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment;
Digital Transformation;
Digital Strategy;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Labor;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Style;
Business or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Failure;
Success;
Personal Development and Career;
Strategic Planning;
Adaptation;
Competition;
Alignment;
Business Strategy;
Retail Industry;
Minneapolis;
Minnesota;
United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Sunil Gupta, and Amram Migdal. "Unleashing Human Magic at Best Buy." Harvard Business School Case 524-072, April 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
half the offer that Microsoft had made in its acquisition offer in 2008. The depth of the challenge is underscored by the frequent CEO changes the company has had, culminating in the recent firing of the latest CEO, Carol Bartz. The case examines the successes and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-047.pdf Financing Risk and Innovation Authors:Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Technological revolutions and waves of creative destruction are associated with new ventures and the destruction of mature firms, but also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win by Chris Kuenne (MBA 1989) and John Danner (HBR Press) The most important factor shaping the success or failure of a new business is the personality of the builder―the founder or leader’s...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
recommend Ron Chernow’s Grant, a biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Other than as the answer to the 1950s Groucho Marx question, “Who was buried in Grant’s tomb?”, I had not known much about this fascinating person. He was a terrible judge of people, had no business...
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
“combined leadership explained a remarkably high proportion of the success or failure of each team.” Just four leadership variables–quarterback, coach, general manager, and owner–explained 68.2 percent of variance in team performance...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
leadership team create an action plan that makes sense for the company's strategy? This case is designed to be used with the "Balanced Scorecard Simulation Game." Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112048-PDF-ENG Social View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
negatively associated with FLSI. These findings suggest that rather than relying on hiring motivated individuals, managers need to support employees' efforts to improve their work systems by (1) creating a work environment where it is safe to talk about operational...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
businesses are shut out of the Paycheck Protection Program. How long do you expect people to tolerate such consistent failure to uphold a semblance of equity? The movements also represent a refusal to continue accepting a fallacious and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
on to the next new idea or product or opportunity within the organization. I was at back-to-school night for my first grader a little while ago. The teacher said that they’re trying to encourage the kids not to fear failure by having a...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
can help MBAs no matter what they end up doing. “You’ve got to make sure that you understand the likelihood of failure — no matter how smart or how good the plan is,” says Stig Leschly. “It takes a certain type of person to put up with...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
or prejudice? These are collective failures where we all bear a responsibility. Fixing them is going to take a long time, but we should have the objective clear in mind. Katy DeCelles, James M. Collins Visiting Associate Professor of...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
environment, the entrepreneurs were often unable to capture sufficient profits to sustain businesses. Recycled-goods markets were volatile. There was also a tension between the constant waste stream on the collection side and a seasonal/cyclical demand for recycled...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider official flows as the main driver of uphill flows and global imbalances is an important shortcoming of the recent...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
new information technology and summarized the "root causes" of unsuccessful implementation. "The good news," Tobkin stated, "is that the problems are not in the technology. Most of the causes of failure have to do with management."...
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Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
Actually, I need to help them have experiences where they fail. Because only if they experience failure can they experience success. And I think a lot of us in my generation think that, oh, well, I just have to be sure that they always...
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