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  • 06 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

transition are ones in which a single person at the place at the right time can have enormous impact. As David Ben-Gurion made Israel, and Abraham Lincoln remade the United States, Nelson Mandela reforged South Africa. He was not the only... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

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

Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2018 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a catering business, and various licensed products that run from cookware, to soup, to fast-casual restaurants. His businesses activities are divided among three separate... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Growth and Development; Management Systems; Business Processes; Leadership; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • September 2021
  • Case

Publicis Groupe 2021: Changing Nearly Everything

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
After succeeding long-time CEO Maurice Levy as top leader of the world’s third largest advertising, marketing, and communications company, headquartered in France, Arthur Sadoun accelerates digital transformation through a new platform drawing on talent from any of the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Transition; Transformation; Leadership; Digital Transformation; Advertising Industry; France; United States
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

garbage and too much traffic (McKinsey). Continued urbanization only exacerbates these shortages. Society needs collectively to address the basics of water, energy, waste, and transit so that we can all do more with the resources we have.... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

sector in which women ascended, either corporate or entrepreneurial, relate to the discursive strategies women employ in their legitimacy narratives. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53143 Between Home and Work: Commuting as an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

strategies. Hence, this transition necessitates a paradigm shift in strategic thinking. Flip the perspective: Your ecosystem, tech giants included Often, traditional businesses perceive themselves as mere participants in the ecosystems of... View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

both nature and humankind. We asked a group of Harvard Business School faculty members to offer their views on the many facets of "going green." Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor Of Leadership And Management The world's cities are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

in press More Than Managing: The Relentless Pursuit of Effective Jewish Leadership Nudging as a Tool for Leaders By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Jewish organizational life is inundated with publications on organizational change and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2024
  • Case

Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore
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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52469 2017 Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective Gapponshugi in Global Perspective: Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism By: Jones, G.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

leadership in mobilizing people and resources in highly dynamic situations.” Each winter, 900 HBS students dispatch around the world to see businesses up close, learn what they can about how they are run, and share their own knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail
  • November 12, 2020
  • Article

What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In the wake of the recent election, the United States faces a fraught, difficult transfer of power. What we know about hostile takeovers in business can provide help in finding a path forward. Leaders on the winning side of the more successful acquisitions emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Transition; Government and Politics; Mergers and Acquisitions
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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—The Chinese leadership under Xi Jinping has announced its intentions to transition the economy from one driven by investment and exports to one driven by domestic demand. The main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

suggest. Our results challenge the widely held view that appointments of independent directors necessarily add objectivity to the board of a firm. Purchase the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14232 The Ontological Foundations of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

competitors, competing in the area of IV solutions in the 1970s. Another reason is that they were located in similar geographic regions, making the transition of many of these people out of Baxter and Abbott and into east- and west-coast... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

universities, local governments, and civic groups and developed an array of outreach programs to help people understand and express themselves through music. Ma was confident that there could be no better time to hand over leadership. But the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

organizational culture, alignment, leadership style/fit, and change management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406111 The Board of Directors at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

leadership at the top. This requires a more complete understanding of the processes of the company from a strategic perspective. That understanding implies that systems cannot substitute for management in the resource allocation process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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