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  • 14 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

Succession planning is hard work: It must be embraced by the organization and driven by the CEO. In the book, Bower identifies best practices companies can follow to identify, groom, and train internal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

underscore the importance of understanding where open source is most used and could be vulnerable to attack. The report, ‘Vulnerabilities in the Core,’ a Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software, was prepared by the... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

idea because the monopoly surplus is higher than that from a duopoly,” Luo explains. This intuition was originally developed by her colleagues Dennis Yao at Harvard Business School and Jim Anton from Duke... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

put it, “Remember, if you lose personal liberty and privacy, you lose everything. Be very careful what you would wish for in the cause of ‘national interest’.” Commenting that it requires some subtlety to get this balance between security and privacy right, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • January 2007 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

To JV or Not To JV? That Is the Question (for XTech in China)

By: Daniel J. Isenberg and Paul W. Marshall
XTech, a leading manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO Reinhold Hesse is debating several options: establishing a joint venture,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Search; Global Ventures; Succession; Acquisitions; Private Equity; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Joint Ventures; Management Succession; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Global Strategy; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry; China; United States
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Isenberg, Daniel J., and Paul W. Marshall. "To JV or Not To JV? That Is the Question (for XTech in China)." Harvard Business School Case 807-118, January 2007. (Revised July 2013.)
  • 07 Feb 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

to deal with the big risks introduced by that decision; and Jim Triandiflou, founder and CEO of Ockham Technologies, who worries about losing control of the company as he and his cofounder consider various... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

To compete with truly 'sticky' customer service, you're going to need to get creative . . ." Jim Coyle suggests that this may involve putting in place effective service recovery programs that "fix problems when they are brought... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

Drucker became skeptical of the methodology, particularly when it was tied to monetary incentives that led managers to game the system by understating what they could achieve. Slowly, the notion of stretch goals emerged. View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Nov 2008
  • Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry, is scheduled to be published in April by Jossey-Bass. Mallory Stark: What is career imprinting? Monica Higgins: Career imprinting refers to the process View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

impact on profits." Adopting Mercadona's approach also requires a leader with a strong backbone. Ton notes that Jim Sinegal, CEO of Costco, another retailer with good labor practices, had been criticized View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

Nova lived up to its moniker, nová meaning "new" in Czech and alluding as well to a bright star. Its wide array of programs provided a spicy alternative to the tired fare offered by the two prevailing state-run channels whose... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

A: Jim Heskett: One can only speculate on the sources of low job satisfaction. It could be a product of unmet expectations, possibly due to inadequate attention by firms to hiring, training, and subsequent... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

from these standards. By the same token, the dominant design of rodeo kayaks (as of about 2000) involves a short, center-buoyant, planing hull made of molded plastic. Bill Abernathy of HBS and Jim Utterback... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2012
  • Book

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Being a great leader today is much harder than you think—meet Jim Barton. He's a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity—thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Complexity; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Volatility
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Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell. Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.

    Adventures of an IT Leader

    Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges--from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader. This book invites you to accompany new... View Details
    • 03 Feb 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

    Citing corporate scandals of the past ten years, Andrew MacLennan said that " in the last 10 years there has been a growing recognition of the need to balance great ideas with concern for execution " Debra Farquharson commented that this has been accompanied... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • September 1997
    • Case

    Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)

    By: W. Earl Sasser, Josep Valor and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Information Technology Services Director Mohamed Muhsin planned to restructure the World Bank's information technology in response to President Jim Wolfensohn's call to build a knowledge bank. Several reorganization efforts taken by the bank in the 1980s led to a... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Information; Knowledge Management; Mission and Purpose; Technology; Public Administration Industry
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    Sasser, W. Earl, Josep Valor, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-053, September 1997.
    • 01 Apr 2009
    • News

    New Book Looks at the Life of a CIO

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