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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

on middle management During the 1980s and 1990s, middle managers became prime targets of large-scale downsizing at the behest of shareholder activists—yet the ranks of middle managers never really declined. Zhang’s data helps explain why.... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • November 2009
  • Article

Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies

By: Erin Marie Reid and Michael W. Toffel
The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Shareholder Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Social Issues; Corporate Disclosure; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics
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  • 19 Nov 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Duane Varan, MediaScience and Murdoch University

  • February 2022
  • Case

Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica
This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Government; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Science; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Leadership; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Health; Innovation and Management; Governance; Change; Government Administration; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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    Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007

    The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details

    • 24 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World

    stories contain pearls of management wisdom for today’s executives looking to lead with excellence. “Without exception, all these people are opportunity seekers,” says Simons of the leaders profiled, which include former British Prime... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • April 2018
    • Case

    Happy UAE

    By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Brian J. Hall, Tiffany Y. Chang, Karim Sameh and Alpana Thapar
    This case centers on the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) national goal of raising the happiness of its residents and visitors through ambitious government initiatives. They combined this bold national goal with an accountability structure (incentive plan) built on Key... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Welfare; Governance; Motivation and Incentives; United Arab Emirates
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    • January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Japan: Betting on Inflation?

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market... View Details
    Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Debt Sustainability; International Relations; Borrowing and Debt
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    • 2011
    • Book

    Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy

    By: Sophus A. Reinert
    Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez-faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Government and Politics
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    • 20 Jun 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

    contains a cautionary tale, for by their very nature, stories can be unrepresentative of larger trends. Prime examples of this pitfall include climate change denial, anti-vaccine information, or the way Ronald Reagan used a story about a... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 25 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making

    Keywords: by Roy Y.J. Chua & Xi Zou; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 09 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 9

      PublicationsAuctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications Authors:Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sébastien Lahaie, and Boleslaw Szymanski Publication:Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011 Abstract This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 14

    Business School Case 417-002 Womenomics in Japan This case profiles Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's vigorous attempts to revive Japan's economy, specifically by advocating for a larger role for women in the economy—not as a matter of social... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2006
    • Module Note

    Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity

    By: Alan D. MacCormack
    Describes the fourth module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Perspective; Value Creation; Networks; Alignment
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    • 19 Dec 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Political Economy of Capitalism

    Keywords: by Bruce R. Scott
    • Web

    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    has been incubating since its founding in 2023—to advance both companies’ efforts toward patients. Cody is also an entrepreneur-in-residence at Atlas Venture, a board member at Cure Rare Disease, and an advisor at Accelerating Breakthroughs in EB. Previously, Cody held... View Details
    • 14 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

    An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson
    • 14 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    “Power from Sunshine”: A Business History of Solar Energy

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities
    • 17 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

    2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Book

    Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

    Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman