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- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
Many managers know that even when their firm launches a change initiative with great fanfare, it is tough to make the changes last. More often than not, employees wearily dismiss the initiative as another management fad. Soon enough,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- December 2007
- Background Note
Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows"
By: James K. Sebenius and Stephen Friedman
Important transformation at Goldman Sachs, where one of the authors was Chairman, required analysis, political leadership, and management in order to fundamentally shift the strategy, people, and culture on a sustainable basis. After describing the actions needed to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Transition; Strategic Planning; Core Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity
Sebenius, James K., and Stephen Friedman. Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows". Harvard Business School Background Note 908-028, December 2007.
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using various proxies for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
equally interested and perhaps equally inexperienced in high technology, are carrying such enthusiasm even further. Rather than wait for Silicon Valley to come to the School, two student organizations - the CMC (Communications, Media &... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
talent in order to remain successful. The authors argue that the source of competitive advantage already exists within every organization and that how a firm creates and uses talent is far more important... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
patent pools need to be ex-post incentive compatible is not possible. Third, we show that allowing firms to sign ex-ante agreements regarding pool participation dominates (in terms of welfare) any other policy rule. This policy does not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - March 6, 2019 View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
problems. And even though the problems have gotten worse, few companies have stepped up to address them. We had studied a number of firms that had successfully developed profitable businesses that had mitigating effects. But far too few.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Global Climate Change - Course Catalog
Organization of the Course GCC meets in 25 sessions divided into five modules. These address 1) the causes of climate change, 2) national and firm mitigation strategies, 3) the green energy transition, 4)... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
Do you believe in miracles? Some say that's what it will take for the Olympic movement to recover from the scandal surrounding the awarding of the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City. Or maybe all that's needed, as the Salt Lake View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
found a direct link between creativity and unethical behavior. According to the findings, inducing creativity in employees also inadvertently induces unethical behavior—a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions out-of-the-box thinking. But her research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
full courses Acting in Time: Leadership and Management in the Face of Large-Scale Risks is a leadership capstone course designed for students who, over the course of their careers, will lead an organization that faces large-scale risks.... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
Recently featured on the cover of Forbes with Intel chairman Andrew Grove, Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen is the author of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. His research on "disruptive... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
and help firms and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations and structures – from fintech startups to private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
differences appear to be associated with different models of development—open, distributed organizations developing systems with smaller cores. We find that core components are often dispersed throughout a system, making their detection... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
firm, achieves that balance, in part, through a vehicle known as a “conservation easement.” The firm buys land and then sells the development rights to conservation groups. The sale of these rights generates an early, partial return to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Donor Spotlight
for women and veterans, have been established thanks to Goldman Sachs Gives. A donor-advised fund, the program has enabled partners Celeste Guth (MBA 1986), Tucker York (MBA 1986), and others to recommend the grants to HBS. The firm has... View Details
Keywords: veterans; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
How do executive search firms work? It’s well known that most senior management, CEO, and board positions are filled by these organizations, but given the confidential nature of their work, they often conduct their business with utmost... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
Twitter—establishing an account, getting people to follow the firm, and hoping that those people will respond in kind. Such strategies have allowed firms to engage in an activity that's very familiar to them: broadcasting content to... View Details