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12 Feb 2018
News

More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

By significantly expanding our understanding of the dynamics of competition, Michael E. Porter's Harvard Business Review article "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" launched a business management revolution among academics and practitioners when it was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

Companies can create shareholder value through more effective governance, and through boards that do not simply ensure compliance, but focus their time and efforts on the most critical strategic areas. Past... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

have steered huge strategy shifts at Intel Corp. and the Pentagon, for example. In 2011, Thinkers50 named him the world's most influential business thinker. At the same time, he has held major leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Oct 2015
Blog Post

4 Takeaways from HBS

I never expected the school to care so much about my values. For example, in Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD), a first year Required Curriculum course on how managers become View Details

June 2010 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Virginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged)

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer

In 2000, Dr. Gary Kaplan became CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. The hospital was facing significant challenges: it was losing money for the first time in its history, staff morale had plummeted, and area hospitals presented ardent... View Details

Keywords: History; Competition; Operations; Leadership Style; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Seattle

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

focus, effective communication, and more than a pinch of dynamism. Those were certainly apparent in Andrus's response to her rather large dilemma. "I had a problem," she says, "but there were... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

February 2020 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Sustainable Product Management at Solvay

By: George Serafeim, Vincent Dessain and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej

In November 2019, Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a Belgian specialty chemicals and advanced materials group, with annual revenues of more than €10 billion in 2018, announced the group’s mid-term strategy, eight months after she took the helm as Solvay’s 11th CEO. The case... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Development; Management Accounting; Innovation; Carbon Emissions; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Target-setting; Product; Management; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry; Europe; Belgium

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

center of gravity is not Iraq's military units, but rather the political leadership and hearts and minds of the people. At the same time that some leaders are engaging enemy tanks View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 2024
Case

Innovation Strategy at Stanley Black & Decker: Setting the Direction for Growth

By: David L. Ager and Antonio Manuel Oftelie

On July 1, 2022, Don Allan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Stanley Black & Decker (SBD). Although Allan had been with the firm for 23 years, most recently serving as President and Chief Financial Officer, he recognized that he was stepping into his new role as... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Growth Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations

Gerald C. Chertavian

Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

June 2025
Case

TagHive: Edtech Pricing and Distributor Decisions

By: Isamar Troncoso, Frank V. Cespedes and Stacy Straaberg

Education technology (edtech) company TagHive, founded in 2017, used a direct sales team and third-party distributors to sell its Class Saathi hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly primary and secondary schools in India. The product aimed to improve... View Details

23 Apr 2019
Blog Post

HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders

future success. Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times A book for managers who... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

As Stevan Trooboff put it, "... the problem in picking leaders lies as much with definition of what types of leadership is required as in the process of selection... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

for natural gas, and to create derivative supply contracts that could help customers manage the risks of demand volatility and price swings more effectively than before. In this way, Skilling and his... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first... View Details

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

too top-down or laissez faire in his or her approach to leading. They do not engage people in a way that allows an honest problem-solving dialogue. An ineffective leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

ends up being less effective and efficient than it could be. The power of PTO is that it breaks this cycle, mitigating the pressure, freeing individuals to spend time in ways... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

the restaurant, failing to fill seats nightly, starts operating at a loss. But then there's D'O, a restaurant in Cornaredo, Italy, that opened in 2003 and received a Michelin star only one year later. Under... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

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