Executives - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

therapy innovations. To bolster Medtronic's near-term prospects, he has supported creative product and business model innovations aimed at overcoming adoption barriers in emerging economies. Ishrak restructured his executive team and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

day or two a week at a major corporations, receive mentorship, and are matched with a "work buddy." The model should be scaled up to include the state's other 14 community colleges, she said. Gregory Bialecki, secretary for the Massachusetts View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence” Topics tackled include how boards can most effectively oversee company strategy, CEO succession, and executive compensation. Also considered... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

with ideas, solutions, information, and energy that feed into their decision-making processes. Over the years, I’ve witnessed my own students convince senior executives to improve labor practices in the supply chain and workplace that end... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to spot upcoming trends. Together,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

executives at dozens of organizations—Google and Yahoo!, health care organizations, even a knitting business in a fishing village. They've talked with public officials in Japan and the staff of the US Embassy, and undertaken service... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

strong positions and the most productive cost structures in their industries, can expect to gain market share. Other companies with healthy balance sheets can do so by acquiring weak competitors. 8. Emphasize core values. Although most companies are making employees... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

Iansiti says. "Traditional alliances are formed between a business development executive and an individual company like IBM or Cisco. In the open source scenario, you could say that there's an alliance between IBM or HP and every... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

"disruptive growth engine." They include: (1) "start before you need to," (2) "appoint a senior executive to shepherd ideas into the appropriate shaping and resource allocation processes," (3) "create a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

to challenge the leadership of large companies, and ballot initiatives were rare. Today, firms like RiskMetrics and Glass Lewis evaluate everything from executive compensation to minutiae in corporate governance provisions. And as the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

largely by scale alone." Several respondents offered an explanation for these phenomena. Typical was Rahul Sharma's comment: " . . . these high executive compensation packages are . . . necessitated by the reduced 'lifespans' of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

"We're trying to be the neighborhood store," said Neel Raheja, executive director of the Shoppers' Stop chain of department stores. Today the chain employs 1,500 at 14 stores and has ambitious plans to expand to 25 locations by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

quickly to execute the strategy. The firm has committed $1b in investment, building out a new software center in California and a commercial sales function at headquarters to deploy the new products and services. Purchase this case: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

them, and sometimes it’s good to be dislodged from our solutions. Obviously, there’s a lot out there to help us not forget stuff, and it could be that for certain kinds of problems that turns out to be counterproductive.” To HBS Executive... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 83 percent of large company CFOs agreed that SOX had increased investor confidence, with 33 percent agreeing that it had reduced fraud. And yet—the financial crisis of 2008 still... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

capability enhancement "an explicit goal in the strategy process." Including executives with deep knowledge of such things as "the company's technology, operating processes, culture on the shop floor, and supplier... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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