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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
situation facing Fahey at National Geographic compare with the challenges at Time Life? Is he taking the right steps to destroy silos and integrate the organization? But the case actually hangs around another question. Fahey created a position of senior vice president,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
daughters regarding the use of lipstick in America.21 By the end of the 1920s, three thousand different face powders and several hundred rouges alone were being sold on the American market.22 Hollywood was also playing a pivotal role.... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
data. Flexibility is important. Revisit your conclusions and pivot as needed. Utilizing short-term KPIs (30-day, or so) is one way of monitoring decisions and assessing performance. This is a period of continuous learning. The lessons may... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
the NTSB later flagged for omitting pivotal facts, Boeing said that its customers “have our assurance that the 737 MAX is as safe as any airplane that has ever flown the skies.” Just five months later, another 737 MAX—Ethiopian Airlines... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
Entrepreneurs have to have a clear sense of the opportunity and how to build the business. But the best ones are willing to reexamine their assumptions and are willing to veer left or right or pivot all the way around when the data... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
The EBOs generated revenues that far exceeded the corporation’s acquisitions portfolio in the same period. Carol Kovac led the most successful EBO, IBM Life Sciences. The innovation for this team was to create solutions relevant to a fast-emerging market. Kovac had her... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
contributors, salespeople aim their attention at their customers and products, worried mostly about how to do their own job well. In becoming managers, they must pivot toward clarifying to their staff what the job requires, helping them... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- January 15, 2019
- Article
Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?
By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
Baron, Josh. "Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?" Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2019).
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
we're learning in the course is that pivoting is really hard." Of course, in carving a path to the PMF, startups may find that they have to shift the company in a completely new direction. In lean startup lingo, it's a process known... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
that, but the effects are huge. And this is striking Brown and Black communities at a staggering, alarming rate. Frazier: Absolutely. Neeley: Unmasking is the right word. I want to pivot and ask you about George Floyd's devastating death.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
rather than a market-entry strategy for first-time restaurateurs. Kitchen United has pivoted away from new food entrepreneurs toward providing cloud kitchens for regional and national chains. Zuul Kitchens has flourished serving... View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
One chapter in Brand New relays the innovations of beauty-business pioneer Estée Lauder, and while examining Lauder's rise, Koehn became intrigued by a pivotal figure earlier in the 20th century whose signature product was the boldly... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
ever seen before that challenges conventional wisdom and poses new approaches to big social or environmental issues. Leaders must continuously make adjustments, review premises, bring the flexibility to pivot if necessary, and find the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
Many of the countries newly admitted in the swap line are pivotal in the global supply chain, either for Advanced Manufacturing and Services (South Korea, Brazil, Mexico) or for Innovative Manufacturing Activities, according to data from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
think about an alternative approach where there's more room for newcomers' self-expression, Gino says. "This is a pivotal stage of the employee/employer relationship, and there are ways to emphasize people's individuality so they can... View Details
- 2010
- Book
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
-Nancy F. Koehn What happened next was both pivotal in shaping the auto industry for much of the 20th century, and in the face of GM's bankruptcy announced recently, terribly ironic. Beginning in the mid 1920s, GM staged an astounding... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now:... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson