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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
Associates, Robert Waldron turned a company that was in decline in 2008 into a profitable $190-million business 10 years later by developing online learning tools as well as print workbooks for schools. In... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
business: customers, products, value propositions, the capabilities and advantages any player brings that will allow the plans to meet success. And while businesses have always used a "platform" of technology of one kind or another to deliver products and services, the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
items caught my eye recently. The first was the report from the Home Depot annual meeting contrasting this year's investor-friendlier tone set by the company's new CEO, Frank Blake, with last year's, led by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 May 2013
- What Do You Think?
Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?
written by Robert Greenleaf in 1970. In it, he said: "The servant leader is servant first It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
savvy and political skill" (Mal Rudner). Efforts may be underway to understand more about issues related to street smarts. Lilly Evans, for example, cited the work in "practical intelligence" by Prof. View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report on Regulatory Reform,... View Details
- September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
From Beirut With Love (A)
By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy
This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details
Keywords: Family Conflicts; Sibling Rivalry; Second-generation; Foundation; Trust; Work-life Balance; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Retail; Department Store; Shopping Mall; Real Estate; Growth; Non-executive Chairman; Sustainability; Family Business; Conflict Management; Management Succession; Governance; Leadership; Transformation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Management; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Lebanon; Middle East
Wing, Christina R., Esel Y. Cekin, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "From Beirut With Love (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-024, September 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
pays for it? Should there be an independent firm that is appointed by the SEC?" What do you think? Original Article Observers such as Jay Lorsch, in his book Pawns and Potentates, has argued that boards of directors often have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
get their other finances in order, and make more substantial contributions to the economy, according to a new research study Second Chance: Life without Student Debt. The study was co-written by Harvard Business School Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges
Keywords: by James Sebenius
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
Malcolm P. McLean, a truck driver, fundamentally transformed the centuries-old shipping industry, an industry that had long decided that it had no incentive to change. By developing the first safe, reliable, and cost effective approach to... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
by Robert Kaplan and David Norton. She is also a former Contributing Editor to Harvard Business Review. Previously, Heimbouch was Director of Editorial Development at Wired Ventures in San Francisco. View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 02 Nov 2021
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2021-2022 Kaplan Fellows
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
past, the work of PSFs was a gentleman's game—and now it's blood sport." Adding to the problem is the fact that many current leaders are overwhelmed trying to balance their dual roles of producer and manager. What's needed, DeLong and coauthors HBS professor... View Details