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- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
which Bezos spends time patenting or not patenting reflects his interests. More important, this analysis provides more depth to our earlier analysis, which suggested that the effectiveness of twenty-first century CEOs could be predicted... View Details
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
experienced burnout differently. Organizations currently comprise multiple generations of employees simultaneously and must understand how each group may view any incentives companies provide to encourage people to stay at an organization. In June, Business Insider... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
division's operations. The division was struggling in 2004 when newly-appointed CEO Philippe Guillemot and his team improved performance substantially by focusing on four levers- industrial footprint realignment, competitive sourcing,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2024 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Shell’s Balancing Act: Resource Allocation and the Green Transition (Abridged)
By: David Collis and Haisley Wert
In mid-2023, amid pressure from climate change activists, shareholder activists, and confronting enormous uncertainty about the future demand for and price of fossil fuels, new Shell CEO Wael Sawan (Harvard MBA 2003) announced a change in strategy for the U.K. oil... View Details
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
We often expect corporate executives to conform to certain extroverted CEO stereotypes: C for charismatic, E for effusive, and O for outgoing. To wit: Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson, who very publicly flew around the world in a hot... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Three Components of Family Governance
children should attend these meetings. One family says that children should attend when they are able to feed themselves; most families start bringing the younger generation into meetings at around age 16. For the young children, families should still consider... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice as hard for a quarter of the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that competition leads firms to flatten their hierarchies: firms reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
business systems worldwide, including how leadership affects performance. As an example of very capable leadership of a high performing family enterprise, I introduced Nelson Sirotsky, Chairman of RBS, who two years ago successfully passed the baton after leading his... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
Summing Up How Do We Encourage CEOs to Manage for Sustainability? Important forces encourage short-term perspectives among managers as well as investors today. These include governance biases, tax policies, faster turnover among leaders,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 506-054 Takashimaya, the largest department store in Japan, was suffering from declining sales. CEO Koji Suzuki had succeeded in instituting changes to cut costs. However, Suzuki needed to come up with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
practice in the ranks. Wells Fargo announced in September 2016 that some 5,300 employees were fired. The action was taken by leaders who claimed they were unaware of the practice; nevertheless, the board replaced CEO John Stumpf and... View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
of the simplest words and gestures often gets lost when CEOs and managers are in perpetual crisis management mode, struggling with layoffs, remote work technology, market woes, and a range of other frustrating disruptions. While... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
disappointedly low. Their ability, and motivation, to locate value-added activities in the most attractive locations means that they strengthen clustering rather than encourage dispersion of knowledge. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
For a better shot at landing the top job at today’s companies, aspiring CEOs should set aside their slide presentations and work on their listening skills instead, new research suggests. Companies are increasingly seeking socially adept... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
During a 2017 Amgen earnings call, CEO Robert Bradway began answering an analyst’s question, then turned to colleague Sean Harper and said, “Sean, I'll let you talk about the specifics.” Bradway’s simple act of calling on Harper to add... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
digital activities that impact physical realities. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53823 Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, and Joel Goh Abstract—Assortment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne