Visits By Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

more and more cases, when leaders make critical decisions, they are not choosing among specific, detailed options, each supported by in-depth analysis, nor are they expecting to implement the option they choose in a familiar, predictable,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

19 Dec 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Innovating Without Information Constraints: Organizations, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero

Keywords: by Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle & Michael L. Tushman

31 Aug 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks & Patrick Kalaher

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

posits that mothers can forge stronger relationships with their infants by gently massaging them during bathing and while applying creams and lotions. Natura's Mother & Baby line provides instructions on Shantala massage and outlines... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

02 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

Keywords: by Maria Guadalupe & Julie M. Wulf

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

required. Define a plan for evolving strategy and capabilities to exploit long-term value potential. Implement to reduce risk and manage uncertainty: Successful entrepreneurs are not risk seekers. Instead, they have learned to View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

May 2002
Supplement

Circon

By: Brian J. Hall and Guhan Subramanian

This case consists of two parts. Part one contains portions of a panel discussion on corporate governance, the poison pill, and hostile takeover attempts/defenses. Part two contains clips from separate visits by George Cloutier and Richard Auhll to the HBS classroom. View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Strategy

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28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

capabilities or prepare for growth. Provide opportunities for selected small business partners to participate in in-house training programs or have access to online management tools. Serve as test sites for small companies with a... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000 items, with that number climbing to one to two million in... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

The Negotiator’s Secret: More Than Merely Effective

untrustworthiness, miscommunication, bad timing, revealing too much or too little, a poorly designed agenda, sequencing mistakes, negotiating with the wrong person on the other side, personalizing issues, and so on. Even if you manage to... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

International Senior Management Program) has been in the thick of Europe's airline industry for decades. With more than thirty years' experience at Swissair, he has served as president and CEO of Sabena since 1996. Christoph Brand (HBS... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

09 Aug 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

Keywords: by Jody Grewal, George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon

2018
Working Paper

Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning

By: Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Bert De Reyck

Problem definition: In collaboration with Heathrow Airport, we develop a predictive system that generates quantile forecasts of transfer passengers’ connection times. Sampling from the distribution of individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces... View Details

Keywords: Quantile Forecasts; Regression Tree; Copula; Passenger Flow Management; Data-driven Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Data and Data Sets

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13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

Faced with the need for massive change, most managers respond predictably. They revamp the organization's strategy, then round up the usual set of suspects—people, pay, and processes—shifting around staff, realigning incentives, and... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

16 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Private Equity and COVID-19

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov; Financial Services

08 Jun 2019
Working Paper Summaries

The Gift of Global Talent: Innovation Policy and the Economy

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

people who directly impact the world, and not just by teaching MBA students and executives here at HBS. It's through consulting. It's through activism. I've always been interested in that. Ely: You published Men and Women of the... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

January 2022
Case

FIFA and The World Cup: The Future of Football

By: Anita Elberse, Oliver Band and Howard Johnson

Should FIFA host its biggest event—the FIFA World Cup—every two years instead of every four, as it has been doing since the event’s inception in the 1930s? In September 2021, Gianni Infantino, the president of the International Federation of Association Football... View Details