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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
when they report their findings. Our research shows that their assessment of the organization is valid and insightful. Senior executives have observed that having employees provide the feedback motivated them and their top team more than... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
It is important for managers and executives to "help people in the organization understand it's both things working together." "One of our big challenges is simply inventory management," Nuzzo said. "For the last... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
views as possible ... and then get the buy in for the execution process." Anshu Vats expressed this view a bit differently when he said, "Groupthink is heavily discouraged in the companies where the leaders lead from behind. ...... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
offering an exemplar of participatory development. CFK's affiliation with University of North Carolina offers a new model of social enterprise. After eight years of success under the founding leadership of Salim Mohamed, Rye Barcott, and Kim Chapman, CFK is at a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
sustainability. “Private investors will need to fund not only real estate development, but also the supporting urban infrastructure systems” In his multiple roles as a member of the HBS faculty teaching courses in Real Estate Development and View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies, only 2.6 percent of CEOs are women, 13.5 percent of View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
"It's not just that we wanted to break the ice with a piece of software that people would view as a game rather than a communications application," one Sony executive explained. "It's also that we wanted to establish the... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives and their families both abroad and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
began selling one of its beer brands in Argentina five years ago, executives believed success lay in replicating the methods that had led to a strong business in Brazil, said sales officer Carlo Alves de Brito. "In the first year [in... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
unexecuted orders on our books. Under this system, those orders would simply be rotated to our next partner and be completed." Global vendors whom the investor calls directly to execute a transaction. With the coming of... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
also presents difficult choices that executives had to make about the LEGO Group's strategy, choice of primary customers, core capabilities, and organizational structure. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/113054-PDF-ENG Nalli Silk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
writes about extensively, including numerous books, articles, and business cases. He's also the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic, and he's the author of this really wonderful case that we're going to discuss today.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Corporate Performance By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
and return unused capital to his investors. With the passing of each venture, he has learned about forming founding teams, splitting equity with his co-founders, hiring executives to work for him, and when to take outside funding. Now,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Marx—who holds six patents—spent ten years as an inventor and executive in the field of speech recognition. In this e-mail interview, he discusses the impact of noncompetes for inventors and those who would tie their hands. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
to recruit, hire and develop minority executives at MTN, a South African telecommunications company, Charnley attempts to bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks that View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
case has been interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln's president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to eating in a company... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman