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  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

conflict between the old and the new. Successful CEOs first develop a broad, forward-looking strategic aspiration that sets ambitious targets both for innovation and core business growth. They then hold the tension between innovation unit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Rachel Silverstein

of it. "I had eight years of experience in corporate finance," Rachel says, "a bit on the high side among female students." Upon reflection, she realized both concerns were probably misplaced. "School readiness is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Retail/Hospitality; CPG
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

through the PC revolution that it helped create in the 1980s) was its decision to bring in an outsider as CEO. Lou Gerstner was able to reimagine and reshape what had become a calcified corporate culture.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • September 1992 (Revised November 1996)
  • Case

Royal Automobile Club Rescue Services Division: Transformation Through Technology

By: W. Earl Sasser and Roger H. Hallowell
The Royal Automobile Club uses a new computer and telephone system to improve its service standards and profitability. After the initial impact of changes from technology, the organization faces a need to choose between future technological development or... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Service Industry; Auto Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part III shows how View Details
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

economic and social value. The goal of the corporation is to add value to employees, customers, suppliers and other partners, and community/society. These CEOs and the companies they lead make decisions with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

Agenda Setting Authors: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao Abstract We examine a multi-issue dynamic decision-making process that involves endogenous commitment. Our primary focus is on actions that impact delay, an extreme form of lack of commitment. Delay is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Alumni WDYDWYD

Jocelyn Goldberg-Schaible

professional estrogen. I've built a career using market research as the legwork for the strategic planning process, with 28 years' worth of clients across the technicolor spectrum of global corporate and... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508114 Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer Harvard Business School Case 808-112 Describes a set of key strategic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52729 May 2017 Judgment and Decision Making Is Saving Lives Your Task or God's? Religiosity, Belief in God, and Moral Judgment By: Barak-Corren, Netta, and Max Bazerman Abstract—Should a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

theory of value, the allocation of decision rights, performance measurement, stakeholders, and compensation. Students bring their cumulative understanding of organizations to the final part of the course, "Governance and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the concept and rise of View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

experience in the supermarket industry and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Bruce Harreld (MBA ’75) is applying his considerable experience as a strategic and marketing leader at IBM and as a speaker and writer on View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

the Age of Options Executive Education workshop. A graduate of Harvard College (1958) as well as HBS, Sloane has served as a consultant to industrial and commercial companies in the areas of corporate View Details
  • January 1998 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Viacom, Inc.: Carpe Diem (Condensed)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Viacom has built a powerful position in the global entertainment industry through skillful and bold acquisitions. Now its expansion is challenged by the moves of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Different businesses within Viacom have contradictory positions on how to deal... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entertainment; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

make sure that short-term decisions don’t undermine the longer-term message. Have a clear set of strategic priorities with the long-term mission in mind. Dedicate some time (and perhaps a team) to imagining... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

determine how to address this new competitor. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707431   PublicationsJudgment in Managerial Decision Making Authors:Max Bazerman and D. Moore Publication:7th... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Good as Our Word

uses ratings, and how they are used. The case concerns the strategic options facing a new entrant hoping to exploit the potential crack in the dominance of Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P. Becker was spurred to write it when he realized the bond... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

When most people think of a company's organization chart, they put the chief executive officer at the top of the pyramid. But those with an interest in corporate governance know that's not correct. After all, the CEO reports to the board... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner