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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
design—to help clients no matter what their business happens to be. As a result, they have become highly skilled at explaining the finer points of contract theory and incentive design to executives who want to mint their own... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
numbers of stakeholders potentially influencing decisions, with teams and flatter organizations, and with command, control, hierarchy, and authority systems often unable to elicit crucial cooperation and commitment." In addition, he notes... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
attempting to raise awareness about gender inequality for early- and mid-career professionals as well as women at the senior executive level. Although significant progress has been made over the past 50 years, women still hold only a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Fabufestan Exposés-Book I by Ralph Hancox (PMD 26) (Fictive Press) The adventures of Gregor “Legs” Morowitz, on parole and virtually destitute, after he is offered his old job back at a Canadian boutique documentary and advertising company. The owners want him to head... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
organization culture, it prompted several executives and alumni to ask me if I had a comment on the subject. In typical business school fashion, I’m asking for yours. The article cites four case examples--Ecolab, Delta, Ford, and... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
from the firm’s Cranford headquarters, allowing its eight-person team to provide fast, personal service. The company also takes an “engineering approach” to services, investing in skilled technicians rather than relying on less costly... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
quite centrally and rapidly: The number of early-stage ventures that people were backing had exploded. Young, inexperienced teams were getting a chance to try their ideas in a way that hadn’t happened as much in the past. Why? Reading the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
the Haitian Ministry of Commerce and Trade. “We’ve given a team of 30 farmers a crash course in strategy based on the HBS case method, and we’ve accompanied them on trips to meet potential customers—from coffee dealers in Seattle to mango... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
fully answered in advance. "Executives from each side may have different assumptions about which strategy and management practices will be best for the new company," Beer says. "These issues are often hidden and not discussed during initial negotiations. After the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
unique. In the hybrid world, there is an expectation that those who are physically present have an advantage, and those who are remote will not feel as strong a connection. That has not been true for our students, and it is because of the particularly unique design... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
rights, and legal liability of companies and executives for violating human rights. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309097 DreamWorks SKG Inc.: To Distribute or Not to Distribute? Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
allowed by health authorities. Yet caries remained a significant threat to public health in many countries, both developing and developed. As Suzan Harrison, Colgate's president of Oral Care, prepared to launch CMCP+SAN in Brazil, the world's third largest oral care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707559 Vitreon Corp.: The Hyalite Project Harvard Business School Case 607-031 Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
vehicles far outstrips the currently available supply. On the federal front, President Biden has issued an executive order asking every agency to have zero emissions vehicles in their fleets. However, Erika warned that those agencies... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
content supplier into a disruptive platform? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/918413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-058 Investor Relations Practices at Edwards Lifesciences In January 2017, the senior leadership View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
problem here was the first a-ha, and then the next a-ha was that we came up with a really elegant solution to it. And then we were like, wow there’s a really interesting business model around this. We did a lot of upfront work. We crystallized that we wrote it down and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
That experience led him to assign several Bain teams to analyze the viability of setting up a nonprofit consultancy. The need quickly became evident. Bain research turned up “some 3,000 solo practitioners who offered consulting services... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
titled "Groupthink," "Debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them." These ladies will help you generate ideas to navigate both the best and the worst events in the arc of your career and life. Sue Schooner (MBA 1983), View Details