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    Cynthia A. Montgomery

    Professor Montgomery's research centers on strategy and corporate governance. Of particular interest are the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues... View Details

    • 16 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

    be a key facet of leadership. Leadership and Strategy Are Inseparable From The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs By Cynthia A. View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
    • 07 Jan 2013
    • News

    Articles by Professors Teresa Amabile and Cynthia Montgomery named top ten by McKinsey Quarterly

    • 22 Feb 2013
    • News

    The Thought Leader Interview: Cynthia Montgomery

    • 28 Apr 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

    people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Make directors accountable to... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
    • 29 Apr 2022
    • News

    Professor Cynthia Montgomery: Pivots

    • 25 Apr 2022
    • Video

    Professor Cynthia Montgomery: Pivots

    • 15 Dec 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The New Global Business Manager

    In a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review, HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and co-author Sumantra Ghoshal tackled the question, "What is a Global Manager?" Their answer then was that "there is no such thing as a... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 10 May 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

    more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one finding from work done View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 16 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Are You a Strategist?

    "What are the first three words that come to mind when you hear the word 'strategy'?" That's the free-association exercise Cynthia A. Montgomery gives to mid-career business... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 26 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

    "Better to be quiet and thought a fool than to talk and be known as one." The social virtues of silence are reinforced by our survival instincts. Many organizations send the message—verbally or nonverbally—that falling into line... View Details
    Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    company that resorted to inhumane means of reducing its workforce, according to a trio of case studies co-written by Cynthia Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • January 1991
    • Article

    Diversified Expansion by Large Established Firms

    By: C. A. Montgomery and S. Hariharan
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Expansion; Diversification
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    • 23 Aug 2006
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Wal-Mart Effect

    This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
    • 15 Jun 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    IKEA Navigates the Future While Staying True to its Culture

    Keywords: Re: Juan Alcacer & Cynthia A. Montgomery; Retail
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Doing It Your Way

    your own 'storefront' on the Internet." READ MORE Cynthia A. Fisher - Viacord, Inc. Shikhar Ghosh - Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C.... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
    • 04 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 4

    Montgomery County Public Schools Authors:Stacey M. Childress, Dennis Doyle, and David A. Thomas, with a foreword by David Gergen Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    10 Trends to Watch in 2024

    The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

      PublicationsThe Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs Author:Cynthia A. Montgomery Publication:New York: HarperCollins, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Risk, Trust and Escalation Behavior of Owner Managers

    By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
    Professor Montgomery and Professor Deepak Malhotra (HBS), together with scientists from Harvard's Program on Evolutionary Dynamics, are studying risk-related decision making of owner managers in newly-founded and established companies.  This experimental... View Details