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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

By: Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld
Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 01 Apr 2020
  • News

What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

William M. Allen, Boeing’s chief executive at the time, was asked to meet with us because Vertol, a helicopter company acquired by Boeing, was far behind schedule with the vitally needed Chinook helicopter. Allen reassigned his best... View Details
  • 31 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

customers interact with a service. Companies like Netflix or Amazon, for example, might be able use the model for more effective timing or services, Ascarza says. “Imagine, for instance, how you connect to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation
  • 2018
  • Article

Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time

By: A. V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their money in this way. Because most people believe that the future will be less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Choice; Sharing Economy; Opportunity Cost; Time-as Money; Well-being; Time Management; Happiness; Perception; Behavior
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  • 23 Apr 2014
  • News

Timing plus smart ideas are the keys to being an entrepreneur

Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) launched Wildfire Interactive, now a Google company, to connect companies and customers through social media. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 2007
  • Book

Carbon Strategies: How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Carbon Strategies describes specific steps any business can take to implement sound, practical, climate-related corporate policies. Based on Andrew J. Hoffman’s widely praised report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and significantly revised in light of... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Policy
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  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

to keep them.” Retaining employees, even in hard times In May 2021, the US unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 percent, with 9.3 million women and men out of work. The lasting effects for companies hurt most by... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

office interact about 1,000 times more frequently than two people at the company who are in different business units, functions, and offices, but are otherwise similar. Practically speaking, this means that... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 20 Jan 2022
  • Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

We’re approaching year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no clear end in sight. During this time, companies have had to make difficult decisions about whether employees should work from home, wear masks in the office, and get... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
  • 17 Apr 2022
  • Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

Company managers have likely heard the old quip: Business ethics is a contradiction in terms. That’s because too often, business is viewed as a hard-hearted enterprise, driven by getting ahead at all costs, even if that means cutting... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
  • Case

Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to Acquire Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Nancy Hua Dai
Ian Lee, Whirlpool's VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei Sanyo's... View Details
Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Regulation; Cross-border Investment; Brand Names; State-owned Enterprise (SOE); Appliances; White Goods; Consumer Durables; Negotiation; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; State Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; China
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  • 20 Mar 2009
  • News

Companies making profit through greed hurt all: RM Kanter

  • 13 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

3 Reasons Why Company Conversations Might Be Right For Your Organization

to learn more about the current priorities of your organization and where an MBA skill set would be especially useful in assisting with your strategy. Flexibility: Organizations can utilize this time in a format that works best for them.... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Course Number 1235 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam or Paper Overview: This course explores the power of ownership in shaping View Details
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Business. At its core, the new system compares a fund manager's investments with those of other successful fund managers, making past performance less important in the rating scheme. In short, funds are rated by the company they keep.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • News

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across or deeply embedded in their... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • June 2014
  • Teaching Note

Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
Private equity firm XAF Partners had grown steadily over the last decade, establishing offices across Asia. At the end of their day-long partners' retreat, several firm partners discuss the challenges they face as "producing managers." These include collaboration and... View Details
Keywords: Management; Time Management; Development; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Business or Company Management; Management Practices and Processes; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest of employees if... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 11 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of us would have focused on the obvious one. He had this beautiful habit of mind that every time he walked into... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint