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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
submitted, from managing a remote workforce to making decisions in the face of vast uncertainty. Not surprisingly, one significant challenge reported by many CEOs was how to position their company to survive, or even thrive, during the... View Details
- Fall 2013
- Article
Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?
By: David Drake and Stefan Spinler
Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Sustainability; Environment; Paul Kleindorfer; Management; Environmental Sustainability
Drake, David, and Stefan Spinler. "Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?" Special Issue on the Environment. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013).
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
finalize a deal, but that's often not enough. Many countries have webs of influence that are more powerful than the actual parties making the deal, even though those webs don't have the formal standing of, say, government agencies. In Japan, it may be the keiretsu—... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 2016
- Working Paper
Junior Achievement: Training Teenagers for Business Careers after World War II
This article traces the growing popularity of Junior Achievement's "Company Program" in the two decades after World War II. The program provided high school students with the opportunity to form teams and start mini-corporations that would last for most of the school... View Details
- 06 Jun 2016
- News
Harvard Business School Inaugurates New Executive Education Center
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Stuart C. Gilson
Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit. His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details
- September 2008
- Class Lecture
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
By: Michael L. Tushman and Charles O'Reilley
Executives who return from campus-based executive programs ready to make changes often find employees resistant to new ideas. The Leading Change and Organizational Renewal multimedia resource was created to ease transitions and empower the teacher as leader. This... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
bias and moderate its ill effects. Only then can we be assured of the reliability of the financial reports issued by public companies and ratified by professional accountants. Professional accountants might... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
Charles Cooney, taught me that the hardest problems often occur at interfaces between multiple sectors. The 2+2 program offered me a way to learn the language and tools I would need to tackle tough problems at the interface of science and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Year in Books 2016
alumni scribes Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) Cast of Characters — Notable heroes and super villains of alumni novels Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) Alumni Books of 2016 Alumni... View Details
Malcolm P. Baker
Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.
His research is in the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
time interacting with traditional media.Second, voters who may have enjoyed being entertained and provoked during the primary by Trump's tweets are likely to become more serious as they approach the general election. Given the tough... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven... View Details
Ting Zhang
Ting Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum.
Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
Professor Zhang’s research... View Details
- Video
Moving the Eliot Table
- December 1998 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
STT Aerospace
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Jeremy Dann
Experienced entrepreneur Charles Damon conducted a "roll-up" from 1987-1994 within the commercial airliner interior products industry. Damon's company, STT Aerospace, took advantage of an industry-wide recession in the early 1990s by buying when asset prices were low.... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Business Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Acquisition; Product Development; Aerospace Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Jeremy Dann. "STT Aerospace." Harvard Business School Case 399-056, December 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
it. Or by the time they do, it doesn't matter." But older and larger companies need not despair. By asking new questions, challenging conventional wisdom, and encouraging a steady flow of new ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
Americans launch careers in the next 10 years by “cultivating a comprehensive system that focuses on skills first and enables greater opportunities for earned success.” The hope is that this approach will lift up high-potential Black... View Details
Eugene F. Soltes
Eugene Soltes is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management. His research utilizes data analytics to identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively... View Details