Roads - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

performance, and penalize failures Conducting routine, systematic audits of critical decisions by key executives where the rules of the road are clearly ambiguous Helping senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

political system is very short sighted, Hayes said. American politicians, who only look two years down the road to the next election, try to "placate the electorate" with short-term benefits at the expense of long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

founding team worthy equity grants and, in earlier stage businesses could be anointed as “co-founder” down the road if the relationship blossoms over time. The cofounder courtship If you’ve decided that you really want and/or need a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

displaced, and millions left without electricity and water. Railways and roads were destroyed, and 383,000 buildings damaged—including a nuclear power plant that suffered a meltdown of three reactors, prompting widespread evacuations.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Mitchell Weiss Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) (also listed under Accounting & Management and General Management) George Serafeim Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Road to the White House... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

its future. Enter one visionary—part dreamer, part pragmatist—with the soft power skills to make them a reality Complete Table of Contents June 2017 Supercharged Is the electric car finally on the road to mass-market adoption? Life in... View Details

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

skilled workers. Sometimes it's best to avoid following the herd and seek out an original niche. That was the road taken by animation studio Pixar, which established itself near the mudflats of Emeryville, across the bay from San... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

University’s Earth Institute. The road ahead will not be smooth. “You’re talking about the most important and complex city in the world,” says John Macomber, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies public infrastructure,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

the fourth level, but it does provide a road map of the steps along the way that firms may either traverse or stop at. Level 1: Companies at level 1 are very product focused and have an "if I build it, they will buy it" mindset.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jan 2011
News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

served him — and others — well. His approach relies primarily on research and discipline. "Value investing, the strategy of buying stocks at an appreciable discount from the value of the underlying businesses, is one strategy that provides a View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

additional trucks and hired a team of drivers, a move that enabled him to get off the road and look for new customers. For the next two years, his business thrived, but when poor economic conditions forced many of his newly won customers... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

making all decisions solo), and still needs some oversight. More than 100 employees: Capable of borrowing the car for a weekend road trip with friends. Hand over the keys! If your leaders feel that you won’t give them the keys, that you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Student Research - Doctoral

Association for Consumer Research Acceptance of Automated Vehicles Is Lower for Self than Others By: Stuti Agarwal , Julian De Freitas , Anya Ragnhildstveit and Carey K. Morewedge Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death... View Details

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

Finding Your North Star In addition to tracking the stories of specific demographic groups, three other key themes emerged from the documentary. The first was the concept of finding your North Star. What Singer and Hackett found is that every step of the View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

when necessary. In the words of CEO coach Sabina Nawaz, “Small and frequent performance guidance circumvents major corrections down the road and allows everyone to stay in sync despite distance and daily change.” Bond/Belong On the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

John C. Mulliken

Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details

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Outdoor Spaces | About

south side main entrance road and is named in honor of Frank Batten (MBA 1952) for his leadership gift to support the renewal and enhancement of the Soldiers Field campus. Burden Park With the decommissioning of Burden Hall in 2017, HBS... View Details

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