Publications

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

kata to make our lives a little better every day,” Takeuchi says. 2. Ask the right questions When navigating uncertain waters, an ingrained sense of purpose serves as a rudder. To maintain the necessary balance between agility and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Harshini Chengareddty

and in the summer, there’d be a different music or art festival happening every weekend, so I remember very fondly the time I spent laying on picnic blankets in the sunshine. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? There isn’t one View Details

21 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

weeks, and only then does the merchandise begin to move. So for six weeks, not much happens. You're wasting your real estate and capital. Johnson comes in and says we're not going to play this game. Why not sell at $50 right away?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

low-income countries, instead of zealously guarding it, cutting it off from patients and profits. The licensees then work with local governments and markets while paying the pharmaceutical company for the right to sell generic versions of... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

There’s a time and a place for it,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jon M. Jachimowicz. “It can even be dangerous if you’re not careful about when, how, and to whom you express passion.” Passion can be intoxicating When an employee expresses passion... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

the premise that organizational errors merit study in their own right as an organizational-level phenomenon of growing theoretical and managerial significance. We delineate organizational errors as a construct that is distinct from but... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

down. And the results from our employee-satisfaction survey were high. In all the areas we could control, we moved the needle in the right direction. We actually had a pretty good quarter. Keep up the good work. The audience was stunned.... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

example, instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community deals with the impact of sea level rise and related concerns, highlighting costs, benefits, property rights and the complexity of... View Details

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Contemporary Art | About

Wind Sculpture (SG) V , 2019, stainless steel armature with hand painted glass reinforced polyester cast. 275 1/2 × 100 × 78 5/8 in., C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection, Harvard Business School © Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. All Rights... View Details

07 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

disclosing compensation. Despite these concerns, more research is needed to determine the overall value of crypto influencers’ investment advice on social media, they write. Some top influencers in the space, such as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Alex Gladstein of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

28 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

multiplicative,” says Stanton. “If you have a better boss on a team, you get more out of each individual worker.” “These results suggest the most important peer is your supervisor” As a consequence, it may be tempting to assign more subordinates to better bosses. But... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

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

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

countries. Developing a reputation for playing it straight sends a signal that can dissuade corrupt officials from knocking on a company’s door. It is also a beacon to other businesses that want to do the right thing. “I think there are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 2022
Case

Abu Issa Holding: Navigating the Qatar Blockade

By: Mark Egan and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case follows Ashraf Abu Issa, CEO and chairman of Abu Issa Holding (AIH), as he contemplated the fate of his company’s regional expansion. AIH was a Qatari diversified holding company, whose primary business was luxury retailing and distribution. Abu Issa had set... View Details

Keywords: Luxury Retail; Expansion; Equity; Business Divisions; Growth and Development; Market Entry and Exit; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates

October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Relevent and LaLiga: Bringing Spanish Soccer to America

By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente

“Barcelona backs out of proposed LaLiga match in Miami.” It is December 2018, and Daniel Sillman, chief executive officer of sports and entertainment company Relevent, is tasked with finding a way forward after a significant setback. Relevent had found success by... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Football; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; General Management; Marketing; Entertainment; Sports; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Strategy; Sports Industry

August 2019
Case

Bark Gift Shop Ltd.

By: Susanna Gallani, Jan Bouwens and Peter Kroos

This case describes a setting in which the CFO of Bark Gift Shop Ltd., a gift items retailer, discovers an undesired pattern in the performance data suggesting that her shop managers that perform well during the first part of the year, purposely reduce their effort in... View Details

Keywords: Data Analytics; Employees; Behavior; Performance; Management; Goals and Objectives; Motivation and Incentives; Analysis

August 2017
Case

Hacking Heroin

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta

"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details

Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati

September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat

In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details

Keywords: Liquidity; Venture Creation/development; Hospice; Venture Capital; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States

July 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Case

Affinity Labs, Inc.

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind

In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology