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  • 27 Jul 2021
  • Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 25 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

amount so specific. A round number, on the other hand, suggests that a person is just ballparking it—offering an approximate valuation based on vague knowledge. In one 2013 study, for example, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

of China.” "It’s perhaps evidence that sanity still prevails in the business world." Before proceeding, I should insert a disclaimer. I was a member of a group of about a hundred faculty members called the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

also noted that “more students are seeing opportunities outside of product management as well and are interested in business development, product marketing, business... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

are allocated to respond. The dilemma: Create a response that is neither overreaction (threat) nor insufficient (opportunity). In this excerpt from their Harvard Business Review article, Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • December 2002 (Revised February 2015)
  • Case

Jim Sharpe: Extrusion Technology, Inc. (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Barbara Feinberg
Jim Sharpe, 10 years after receiving his MBA from Harvard and working for others, has finally become his own boss and 100% owner of manufacturer of aluminum extrusions. After 10 months of an unfunded search, he acquires the business in an LBO and prepares to face his... View Details
Keywords: Search Funds; Search; Entrepreneurial Management; Operations Strategy; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Unions; Union; Turnarounds; Funding Model; LBO; Bank Debt; Bank Loans; Equity Investment; Career Management; Small Business; Work-Life Balance; Negotiation; Operations; Labor Unions; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Business Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 24 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

between 2007 and 2019. But, behind that increase are important differences in how managers and employees view what the word actually means in practice, the researchers write. Employees want more meaning... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
  • Case

Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States
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  • October 2018
  • Supplement

African Bank Investments Limited (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; South Africa
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  • 04 Dec 2019
  • Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

recounts. “The employees said, that’s great. We’ll check it with an experiment. The experiment determined if the logo could stay.” As that story illustrates, the role of leadership is very different in an experimentation organization,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Jul 2023
  • News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

Greenfield (MBA 2013): Hi Chris. I'm Bari Greenfield, class of 2013, another Businesses of Sports president emeritus. You talked a lot about the innovation on field and the on-field product. I'll say View Details
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54553 May 2018 Harvard Business Manager Was kostet die Zeit? By: Thomke, Stefan H., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Christina Kestel Abstract—A German luxury watch manufacturer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

and from other institutions with the goal of creating strategies to reignite America's economic future in the global economy. Porter is the Lawrence University Professor, and Rivkin the Rauner professor of View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals to make systematic mistakes in their selection decisions, favoring alumni from academic institutions with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Article

Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement

Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
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  • 05 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

meetings.” While Westphal is modest about the financial modeling he did, the work he accomplished in a short time was exceptional. “Eric did exhaustive research and talked to every single person on the... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

Society is evolving and it is leaving business behind, say HBS professor Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin. In their new book, The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace