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  • 01 May 2024
  • What Do You Think?

Have You Had Enough?

a reflection of the policy that everyone at Harvard Business School—students and instructors alike—teaches. That’s how we all learn, for life. It has been a privilege and an honor to conduct a monthly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2014
  • Book

Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

By: John P. Kotter
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Organizational Structure
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  • March 2001 (Revised January 2009)
  • Case

Walt Disney Company, The: The Entertainment King

By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
The first ten pages of this case are comprised of the company's history, from 1923 to 2001. The Walt years are described, as is the company's decline after his death and its resurgence under Eisner. The last five pages are devoted to Eisner's strategic challenges in... View Details
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Managerial Roles; Creativity; Corporate Strategy; Boundaries; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 28 Aug 2017
  • News

Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

  • July 24, 2019
  • Editorial

How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating

By: Jaewon Yoon, A.V. Whillans and Ed O'Brien
People want purposeful work, and managers know it. That’s why companies try to inspire employees with mission statements about the impact their work can have. Ikea tells employees they’re “creating a better everyday life”; Microsoft says they’re “empowering every... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Perspective
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  • March 1999
  • Case

Hans Fritz at Novartis Thailand (A): The First Month

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Dr. Hans Fritz is 37 years old when he arrives in Bangkok on March 1, 1998 to assume his position as general manager of Novartis Thailand. Novartis is the world's largest pharmaceutical company. He had lobbied to transition from a staff position to this line management... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Transition; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Pharmaceutical Industry; Thailand
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  • April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002

Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,... View Details
Keywords: Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Education; Business Strategy; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; Seattle
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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
    • 01 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

    Zoom, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Basecamp, and Google Drive that help teams collaborate. However, there have been remote teams for decades in various industries and much of what makes these View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • Article

    The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior

    By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
    The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
    Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Media; News; Communication Strategy; Reputation
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    • January 2016 (Revised November 2019)
    • Case

    Blackstone at Age 30

    By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
    Since its IPO in 2007 and following the global financial crisis, Blackstone largely outpaced its alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Asset Management; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Leslie A. Perlow

      Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the Crafting Your Life Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering... View Details

        Paul Hamilton

        Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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        • 01 Sep 2006
        • What Do You Think?

        Are We Ready for Self-Management?

        under the supervision of a "floating" manager responsible for several such stores. They received above-market pay, partially in the form of performance incentives. The result? More highly energized workers, better cost control,... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett

          V.G. Narayanan

          Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
          • 24 Apr 2015
          • News

          An Anti-Creativity Checklist for 2015

          • July 2004 (Revised October 2004)
          • Case

          Harbus Foundation (2003), The

          In 1997, the Harbus Foundation was established by Harvard Business School students to use the school newspaper's accumulated operating surpluses for creating social value in the community. The case investigates the challenges that the student management team faced in... View Details
          Keywords: Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Education Industry; Boston
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          • 05 Dec 2024
          • HBS Seminar

          Amanda Sharkey, Mendoza College of Business

          • March 1997 (Revised July 1998)
          • Case

          SOS-Kinderdorf International: Caring for Orphaned Children

          By: V. Kasturi Rangan
          SOS-Kinderdorf, founded in 1949, has grown rapidly into one of the largest orphanages in the world with children's villages, kindergartens, schools, youth facilities, and other complementary programs in 130 countries. This case describes the evolution of the... View Details
          Keywords: Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Mission and Purpose; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; India; Norway; United States
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          • Research Summary

          The Impact of ABC on Managerial Decisions

          In this type of research, Ratna Sarkar seeks to determine whether, in fact, new cost systems such as ABC (Activity Based Costing) have a measurable effect on managerial decisions regarding product and customer mix.

          The theory of ABC is now academically established,... View Details