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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
alike. It is also, however, an opportunity to examine current business practices in order to increase long-term operational efficiency and competitiveness, as well as to innovate for the sake of surviving now and thriving later. It is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
managers should think: How do we survive this time and even get something positive out of this? One of those positives could be the use of all these cool tools that we should be using anyway. As time passes, workers may find that they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
increased from 8 percent to 15 percent since the launch of the two products, according to the company. Can the Porsche brand survive gender contamination? Is Porsche a stronger or weaker brand going forward because of the incursion of... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
items in order to complete a so-called “Global Survival Kit”—in other words, a pseudo-set. This page had a globe on it, too, but instead of location markers, it featured a line that grew closer to circumnavigating the globe each time an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
I want to share with you my 7 Cs for coronavirus survival if you’re a manager or a leader. This message is also available on video. Calm. Your folks, your employees, your customers, your suppliers, are going to be looking to you as a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
planning for move of EU manufacturing offshore ” Most respondents suggested that the Company’s survival was more closely associated with product/market issues than the logistics and politics of manufacturing. Roaddoggie said, “The new... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
which sounds like such a great thing. People get to keep their jobs, the creditors get paid equity, and the customers don't lose this business that they loved,” says Antill, whose article Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? will appear... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
feedback to last month’s column Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years? The column generated profound comments but little debate. Responses, taken as a whole, represented a love fest for the case method with little question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
found. He's also faced a series of powerful setbacks. So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
opportunity to pivot and make changes that will allow our organizations to survive beyond the crisis?” Others are wondering if the crisis might contain opportunities: “How can we take advantage of COVID ... and think about emerging... View Details
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
reducing the demands of the position. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made it clear: If you’re unwilling to lend a hand to a co-worker to meet a customer need, you will not survive there. “When a lot is demanded of people, you have to build a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
massacre and reparations, I’m hopeful that we can all learn more about this dark period and the vexing question of how to address it,” notes Desai. While Oklahoma has acknowledged its moral responsibility, creating a memorial and giving medals to 118 View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
want to sell you one week of insurance for one product. They have thousands of employees, big budgets, and huge infrastructures, so that they can offer more or all of the activities in the customer value chain. Kost: Incumbents that View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
survive to this day—in schools of law, medicine, and divinity, respectively—in the modem American university. The study of law in America today remains rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Roman and Anglo-American law, as... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
they have no emotional skin in the game. They are only focused on individual objectives. They possess a survival mentality, assuming they are in the service of self. They may very well feel that they are marking time until something... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is essential to understanding his development as a manager. Until 1945, anti-Semitism placed Grove's physical View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
now have to survive on ten percent less for a while. That’s a hardship. I think it’s more manageable than being suddenly out of a job, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder.” FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE For Honeywell, furloughs were the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
extraordinary robustness and have permitted the survival of otherwise doomed organizations. Evaluating these opportunities as well as thinking through their implications and timing, is vitally important, nonboring work. The new... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan