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01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

West Point days, entered the military, “it was because we wanted to be part of something greater than ourselves,” says Jung, who was a member of a unit responsible for clearing bombs while deployed in Afghanistan. She explains that she View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

March 2001 (Revised December 2003)
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Circon (A)

By: Brian J. Hall, Guhan Subramanian and Christopher A Rose

In 1996, U.S. Surgical launched a hostile takeover bid against Circon Corp. After building the company for 20 years, CEO Richard Auhll takes a defensive stand that includes inviting an old HBS friend (George Cloutier) to join the fight as a director of Circon. A... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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Philippe Rival

dedicated and motivating leaders in the field. He is also a very kind, wholesome, and hardworking man, and a terrific husband View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

making their own self-selection to continuously work from home. So companies should have the right processes and incentives in place to allow for that flexibility. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury (@prithwic) is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

motivates employees to execute strategy effectively. The value of these programs is measured by the value they create in the enterprise, not by how little is spent on them. An adequate technology infrastructure View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

28 Apr 2022
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Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

publishing platform, the site tended to promote those books more aggressively, and in turn, flat-fee books received more views. The message, Zhu says, is simple: “The contractual agreement changes the View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

deployment in scale to have an impact. It is industry that knows how to scale things—not government, and not the public. My final comment about these actions—they required leadership and desire on the part... View Details

02 Nov 2018
Blog Post

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS

and everything else in life, but the iLab is our startup sanctuary that keeps us motivated and accountable. The space allows us to shift focus mentally from being students to... View Details

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Prineeta Kulkarni

an Indian pharma, Cipla, that was specifically "focused on access and affordability," says Prineeta. Through her work on the acquisitions team, Prineeta helped Cipla expand access to inexpensive HIV medicine to more countries in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

organization. Highlights Setting Direction Motivating Others Through a Setback Show Hide Details Concepts Setting Direction Communicating Direction Types of Communication Featured Exercises Video upload: Record yourself communicating... View Details

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By: Feng Zhu

Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

to relocate for at least a year through its Tulsa Remote program, providing incentives such as $10,000 in cash, coworking space, assistance with finding a home, and community-building events. So far, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

04 Jun 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

value of their lifetime revenue streams, can provide a strong incentive for continued product and service excellence. At the same time that former manufacturing enterprises are adopting the subscription... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

the profession. Journalists are asking, Whom do we serve? How do we know what people think is important? Any good reader-revenue strategy has to be built around a real understanding of the audience and what View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

engine for the extraordinary motivation and commitment demanded by creativity. As organizations become increasingly diverse and their boundaries flexible View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

celebrated the role of private industry in winning the conflict. Together, text and images emphasized the patriotic rather than profiteering motives of a corporation that stood at attention to meet wartime... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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