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  • 27 Jul 2017
  • News

The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data

  • 31 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Strategist? Published: July 16, 2012 Corporate strategy has become the bailiwick of consultants and business analysts, so much so that it is no longer a top-of-mind responsibility for many senior executives. Professor Cynthia A.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • 04 May 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

    recognition. But unless its users are willing to cede some control over their brands, it can create dilemmas. A story by Dina Gerdeman that appeared on this site last year featured advice by Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising
    • 03 Aug 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

    sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author of the study along with Andrew... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting
    • 02 Oct 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

    Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 10 Mar 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

    what extent does the job make the person rather than vice-versa? Can it be predicted? If so, what does this mean for management recruiting and development in the future? What do you think? References: Joshua M. Ackerman, Christopher C. Nocera, and View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 02 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 2

    Electrically Powered Vehicles in the U.S. Elie Ofek and Polly Ross RibattHarvard Business School Case 510-076 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510076-PDF-ENG Google in China (B) View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 May 2020
    • In Practice

    Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

    world for the better over the next two years, and will prepare us for the inevitable pandemics that follow. William A. Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 13 Oct 2011
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Building a Business in the Context of a Life

    practitioners who are midway through their careers can benefit from developing a road map for the rest of their lives. Kraus is working with a team of professors, led by faculty chair John View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
    • 02 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Stories 2007

    more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

    Union will be far-reaching. John A. Quelch shares his thoughts on the ramifications of Brexit. Skills and Behaviors That Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research by Lynda... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
    • Case

    RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams

    By: David A. Garvin and Elizabeth Collins
    Key topics include team design, team management, job design, employee empowerment, implementing change, and high performance workforces. In 2004, John Amasi, the director of production for a manufacturer of plastic pipe, introduced the concept of self-directed teams... View Details
    Keywords: Work Force Management; Employee Empowerment; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Leading Change; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Texas
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    • 04 Mar 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

    Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
    • May 1994 (Revised July 1995)
    • Case

    Taco Bell--1994

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991). To realize such growth, Martin embraces a philosophy of continual change. The implications for Taco Bell are dramatic... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Food; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Goals and Objectives; Change Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 15 May 2006
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Women Find New Path to Work

    What's happened in the world of marketing in the past five years? What new tools are out there? What avenues are people using to reach customers in new and different ways? How are they even thinking about the customers? [HBS marketing professor] View Details
    Keywords: by Mallory Stark
    • 02 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

    April 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Companies Like United Need to Cultivate Good Judgment, and Free Their Employees to Use It By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—United Airlines has pledged to improve its... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Dec 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

    Harvard Business School experts how the pandemic might change business practices. Here’s what they had to say. 7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus Leaders managing their organizations through crisis show seven distinctive capabilities, says... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Apr 1996
    • News

    Technology for Learning's Sake

    me to manipulate the data," he notes. "But as we get more sophisticated with the technology, it will all straighten itself out." Hands-On Decision Making Long viewed as an essential aspect of managerial education at HBS, field-based learning is taking on a new twist in... View Details
    Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
    • 03 Jun 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

    The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names. "The larger an organization... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail