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  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

Unfortunately, most people—especially busy managers and executives—fall back on System 1 thinking during their negotiations. Reliance on intuition increases when a situation is complex and negotiators reach... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

employee morale. Internally initiated bribery from senior management is more likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. Bribery detected by the control View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1997 (Revised May 1998)
  • Supplement

Asda (B)

By: Michael Beer and James Weber
Describes Archie Norman's efforts over a five-year period to turn around the company by regaining financial control, delivering management, creating experimental projects where individuals felt free to innovate, instituting a back-to-roots strategy that put customers... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Customer Relationship Management; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

phrase "tragedy of the commons" to describe a system in which people acting rationally and in their own self-interest destroy the very resources they all share for their livelihood. His original... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

management team is rare. Next, we ask when an independent director is more likely to dissent and who is more likely to dissent. Controlling for firm and board characteristics, we find that independent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • 23 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

Playing backwards proved to be an effective rediscovery technique for the experts. Compared with the control group, the rediscovery group reported feeling more empathy for the greenhorn. Next, Zhang hired 75 beginner guitarists to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • June 1996 (Revised July 1997)
  • Case

Hostile Bid for Red October, The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Alan Bigman
Manatep Bank, a Russian investment bank, has just announced the country's first hostile tender offer for Red October, a confectionery company located in Moscow. As the chief financial officer of the target company, Yuri Yegorov must decide how to respond, how much his... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash; Governance Controls; Financial Condition; Investment Banking; Financial Markets; Trade; Valuation; Financial Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Moscow
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  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

managers at the expense of investors and tax authorities.” My comments below provide an overview of the financial and tax accounting systems and... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP) ... as laws get in the way View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Malaysia: People First?

By: Diego A. Comin and John Abraham
On March 30, 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak presented his new economic model (NEM) for Malaysia. With the goal of raising per capita income to over $15,000 by 2020 from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; Emerging Markets; Transformation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Malaysia
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  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g., construction, analysis, or intervention), and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
  • Supplement

ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)

By: Robert L. Simons
Describes internal allocation conflicts in a complex global company structured as a matrix organization. ABB Switzerland has secured and will build an important power station project; however, internal market allocation policies dictate that this work be handled by ABB... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Conflict Management; Complexity; Sweden; Switzerland
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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

families. As Professor of Management Practice and co-head of the HBS Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit, Myra Hart has been particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 1995
  • Case

Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe
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  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

other clubs would be likely to pay him. They also had to weigh what sort of precedent, good or bad, that deal would set for the other players they were trying to sign. Finally, they had to anticipate how their moves would affect the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

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