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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

A Message from Dean Clark

few of our current initiatives. I will start with our faculty, because that is where almost everything begins at HBS. The mission of this School demands a gifted faculty that is close to practice. We need people who can see business... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

many students as possible, with priority given to students whose siblings already attended the school or who lived within its "walk zone." For each school with slots still available, the city would assign View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 2020
  • Case

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Accelerating a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Plastic has become essential to global day-to-day activities, yet it is also causing extreme environmental degradation. Many leaders in the plastics industry are starting to question its sustainability. This case presents insights into the future of the plastic... View Details
Keywords: Plastic Waste; Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry
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  • December 2019 (Revised August 2022)
  • Exercise

Janet Ames (A)

By: Brian Trelstad and Brian Trelstad
The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join the board of a Boston-based non-profit organization, which offers students... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Personal Development and Career; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

companies have a binary choice. That they can either move quickly or they can build trust. In fact, you can do both, Morriss told me. You must do both. And really, she says, most of our problems deserve a... View Details
  • May 2012
  • Case

BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division

By: Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton
Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within... View Details
Keywords: United States; Massachusetts; Morale; Human Resource Management; Technology; Leadership; Opportunities; Organizational Design; Conflict and Resolution; Product Development; Change Management; Information Infrastructure; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

edge. READ MORE The World at a Click A stay at Turtle Island is an eagerly anticipated experience, and those expectations create management challenges for Evanson and the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

September 11: A Community Reflects

reactions to the tragedy and to share emotional support. Food and clothing drives were organized on campus, and the School set up a matching fund for contributions made by students, faculty, and staff to the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
  • August 2022
  • Teaching Plan

Janet Ames (A), (B), (C), (D)

By: Brian Trelstad
Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 320-076, 320-077, 320-078, and 322-051. The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; United States
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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

transform their organizations. But most of the guidance that was available about how to manage change effectively assumed that the leader was already part of the organization and knew it well. So there was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2021
  • Book

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business--and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Outcome or Result; Business Model; Conflict and Resolution; Organizational Culture
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  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

earned him the United Nations Foundation’s Champion for Global Change Award in 2014. Polman faced his toughest test when Kraft Heinz launched a hostile takeover bid in 2017. Within 48 hours, Polman rejected... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 26 Jan 2017
  • News

Finding a Path out of Poverty

contribute to a better South Africa and world. Rather than ‘seeking new landscapes,’ I believed a profound change within my current field and gaining ‘new eyes’ on the world... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

start exposing people at a much earlier age about asset management and private equity and why it's a good industry so that you can attract more people to the industry. Chitra:... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

fully solve the recent problems. Q: Are there inherent flaws in the set up of an asset management business? Given that it is a business, can it properly look after the needs of its investors while also... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 05 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Being a Student Mom at HBS

tricks on things like childcare and lactation rooms on campus) we could help future generations of moms at HBS. My classmates and I wanted to institutionalize motherhood at HBS as students.  In pursuit of this effort we created a new... View Details
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • March–April 2017
  • Article

Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation
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  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

fast-paced industry,” he says. “I find it interesting not only for personal reasons, but also for its business opportunities.” As fall turned into winter, Aaron anticipated a post-graduation future in investing or PE, focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail