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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-COVID environment,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting that such individuals can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from stakeholders in three communities:... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Joint Ventures; Green Technology; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard; New Bedford; New England
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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

New Releases

in which knowledge has replaced capital as the critical strategic resource, the core responsibility of management must now focus on attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional people and on creating an... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
  • Profile

Nabihah Sachedina

Tactically, the Partnership is responsible for thirteen priority programs, ranging from mental health and cancer to childhood obesity and diabetes. But strategically, it's changing the very way health care is View Details
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • News

Phone Fun

culture’s changing tastes, Braterman’s management style favors minimizing red tape and encouraging agile responses to the latest marketplace trends. “We can turn on a dime,” he said in the article.... View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

soon working side by side with its dynamic pastor, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, to take Allen’s ministry outside the church walls. In 1986, after eight years as a senior executive at General Motors, Reed left GM to manage Flake’s... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 17 Jul 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

the case is what it is. But what could the Microsoft board have done to counsel management about the company's conduct of the case? Would management, particularly the company's founder, have listened? Does the board at least have the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

It's better to look good than to feel good. That was the observation of Billy Crystal's SNL character Fernando, and it seems to be born out in two articles from this year's most popular list. In The Manager in the Red Shoes, we learn that... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Making It Count

by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 15 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

role as Product Manager Intern with responsibilities he describes as “a mix of technology development and business analysis. I work with a team focused on developing products aimed at lowering energy usage... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 05 Apr 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

senior corporate manager and a highly regarded teacher of future leaders. He cites, for example, lessons he learned working with former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. Among other things, they included the abilities to listen,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • November–December 2024
  • Article

How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?

By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
During the past few years, as evidence of climate change and its effects has mounted, many corporate boards have added climate governance to their agendas. But the maturity of boards’ climate-oversight processes and activities varies widely.
To better... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • 2025
  • Chapter

Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Globalization; Economic Growth; Latin America
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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

systemic restructuring driven by providers, health plans and other stakeholders. Redefining Health Care describes the roles that consumers should play in a value-based system, and the expectations they should set for health plans and providers. Key Action Steps for... View Details
  • February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Burma Pipeline, The

By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Foreign Direct Investment; Energy Industry; Asia
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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Ming Min Hui: Figuring Out Her Mission

responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • Profile

Juliane Schwetz

Many HBS graduates will manage brands; few, however, will be responsible for a brand as storied – and as important – as the one that will be under Juliane Schwetz’s care: the United States Military Academy... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

A Boomtown's Echo

those kinds of projects. No siree. We remember last time around.’ ” Myers is managing director of Dallas/Ft. Worth–based Boldmore Growth Partners, and launched the Internet service provider Bakken Wireless in 2012 to serve the region’s... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 31 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

five years, she has had three different roles, each more challenging – and with greater responsibilities – than the last. Deep support at every transition Tiffany began as a senior vendor manager in Amazon’s... View Details
Keywords: Technology