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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
creating healthy lives, not just profits, from its medical products. Higher-ambition leaders craft a distinctive set of practices, outlined in our book, to enact the multiple stakeholder perspective." In addition to being the Cahners-Robb View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
not just in (what is now) the Czech Republic, but also in any country that lacks strong institutions and investor protections. As HBS professor Mihir A. Desai and the Monitor Group's Alberto Moel explain in the Review of Finance, in their... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
the Internet, to what extent they can capitalize on these transformations remains an open question. HBS professor David Yoffie moderated the session on "The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the Future," with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
beliefs that foam strikes incurred during the launch of the space shuttle Columbia posed no risk to its fuselage. This propensity to maintain silence, a flaw at once personal and organizational, is "widespread and problematic" in both the public and the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Fall 2020
- Article
Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa." Negotiation Journal 36, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 471–487.
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
Harvard Business School Professor and historian Nancy Koehn has studied Starbucks and its leader, Howard Schultz, for close to 20 years. For her, the company represents much more than a phenomenal success story. In a recently published... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
first outsider Chairman and CEO in Gillette history, Jim Kilts led a remarkable turnaround. But by late 2004 he had to make a difficult decision. To better position the 104-year-old, Boston-based company, he opted to sell it to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
the business but can't lead. That's why the best CEO should be both an insider and an outsider, says Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Bower in his new book, The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession... View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
What motivates entrepreneurs? Money? Control? In truth, some entrepreneurs are expecting to get rich. Others want to grow and control a new venture. But most would probably answer: "both." The problem, as Harvard Business School assistant View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the U.K., is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more, oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research by Todd Rogers (HBS Ph.D '08) and Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1538892 Exploration and Exploitation within and across Organizations Authors:Dovev Lavie, Michael Tushman, and Uriel Stettner Publication:The Academy of Management Annals (in press)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
health care. But the truth is that many of these efforts, despite best intentions, have not solved the issues they target, says Harvard Business School professor Jane Wei-Skillern. "Traditional approaches are still falling short,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
and the sport of rodeo kayaking quickly emerged from the rapids. Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin and her colleagues Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel were drawn to the sport as well, but not to get their feet wet.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
homegrown companies. But all that is changing as firms shape and adapt to global markets. Says HBS professor Mihir A. Desai, "The defining characteristics of what makes a firm belong to a country—where it is incorporated, where it is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Since the start of the 2000s, historians have renewed their interest in capitalism, two Harvard professors observe in their new book, American Capitalism: New Histories. One of the primary contributing factors for this, according to Sven... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing