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- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
Business School and Hongyi Li (HBS PhDBE '11) of the MIT Sloan School. (An article in the forthcoming April issue of Harvard Business Review, cowritten by Wulf and Booz & Company Senior Vice President... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive landscape worldwide View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- July – August 2011
- Article
The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership
In this article, it is argued that today's dominant ideas about the practice of business strategy-defined by Porter three decades ago-hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Leadership; Business Strategy; Training; Experience and Expertise; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Competition; Markets
Gavetti, G. "The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 118–125.
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
the answer lies in recognizing that strong, adaptive cultures can foster innovation, productivity, and a sense of ownership among employees and customers. They also outlast any individual charismatic leader. But how can you as a manager... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
controlled basis by governments) through an innovative, supposedly secure, and secretive system of digital codes that enables owners of the currency to complete transactions off the books and out of the sight of government regulators? The... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
comparability and therefore no best practice, only "it all depends." Worse yet, we are often not conscious of these influences. Mauboussin maintains that we too often underestimate the importance of luck in the outcomes of our decisions, employing Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
international heavy-equipment manufacturer, managers were so set on hitting their quarterly revenue target that they shipped unfinished products from their plant in England all the way to a warehouse in the Netherlands, near the customer, for final assembly. View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
It is tough to think positively in a crisis. Yet one overarching lesson in a new book by HBS professor Bill George, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis (Jossey-Bass), is exactly that: See crisis as a chance to develop and enhance your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
The Heated Debate Over Proxy Access
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
the Internet does not lie in e-commerce. Where it lies is in transforming the way every company, every business, every organization in the world does its own work, and communicates to its customers. Q: Many people talk about the rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (B)
By: Jorge Tamayo, Erik Snowberg and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Toyota Argentina (TASA) and the union representing automotive industry workers in the country had been working together since 2011 to address the challenges faced by Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Zárate (Argentina). The strategy for moving forward was built on an... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Performance; Production; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Agreements and Arrangements; Strategic Planning; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Auto Industry; Argentina
Tamayo, Jorge, Erik Snowberg, and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago. "Toyota and Its Labor Union in Argentina (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-412, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
around Earth Day festivals taking place around the world. But the biggest news isn't the millions of people partying in parks. It's the millions of dollars that banks are dedicating to solving environmental problems, joined by companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details
- March 2025
- Case
Mobvoi’s Path Through Market Challenges and Business Reinvention
By: Paul A. Gompers and Shu Lin
Founded in 2012, Mobvoi evolved through multiple transformations—from AI-driven voice technology to smart wearables and later AI-generated content. Backed by major investors, the company navigated shifts in strategy while facing two failed IPO attempts. As market... View Details