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- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
appeal to new customers.12 When confronted with wireless technologies, for example, the incumbent phone companies chose growth-driven co-option. They developed wireless technology using internal resources and tried to market it to new customers. View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Jones: The theoretical contribution is to elaborate how a favorable reputation allows a firm to overcome and capitalize on the transaction uncertainty created by institutional voids. A unique aspect of the theory is that we highlight how reputation has both offensive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Events - Private Capital Project
Corporate Responsibility Engagement at JPMorgan Chase), Clark Binkley (Managing Director at International Forestry Investment Advisors), Ratnika Prasad (Director at the Environmental Defense Fund), John Gilbert (Executive Vice President... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
Can a Platform-Based Tech Giant Be Broken Up? The answer to this month’s question of whether platform-based tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google should be broken up was a resounding “no.” “TD in FL” put it succinctly with one of the age-old View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
a special limited partner at Greylock, began his career working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara (MBA 1939) in the 1960s. That experience left him with a deep appreciation for those in public service and for... View Details
- 10 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service
Corps upon graduating from Harvard College. Now, as a joint degree candidate at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School, Solís aims to discover new ways to serve his country and community through the intersection of business and policy—specifically View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
defensive or difficult. By contrast, a few highly learning-oriented consultants were able to engage in discussion and analysis that involved raising questions about how they themselves contributed to the problem. In these analytic... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
defensive for years. Organizations have been delayering—eliminating middle management jobs—to try to be more agile, with faster decision making and execution. Downsizing in the name of economies of scale has hit middle management hard.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
risks being caused by high-profile events such as the attacks of 9/11. Based on statistical probabilities, risk managers view 9/11 as an "outlier" or exceptional event; but even so, it has spurred a host of defensive reactions.... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
according to the New York Times. Then, in October, the government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Moderna $25 million to develop mRNA to combat infectious diseases and biological threats. "What we're trying to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
equally, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly... View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
Design Club Mollie Breen “I WENT TO AN MBA PROGRAM BECAUSE I WAS KICKED OFF A REALITY TV SHOW!” HOME REGION Washington, D.C. UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Duke University, Computer Science/Mathematics, 2015 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Department of Defense... View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
defense of human rights of citizens in host countries in which our multinationals operate. Q: What do you make of China's assertiveness of late, not only in the business sphere but in the political world as well? A: China has become more... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
champion Bayern Munich started with a miserable performance in the 2019-2020 season and had lost sight of what it stood for—success and glory. Its season featured missing results, alarming defensive problems, and struggles to defeat even... View Details
- Web
Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
Hear more from Professor Debora Spar, Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp, CEO & Co-Founder of Social Finance Tracy Palandjian, former Carnival CEO Arnold Donald, Professor George Serafeim, Professor Peter Tufano, and... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
our schools." The ability of these lenses to shed new light on complicated problems has been proven in contexts ranging from national defense to semiconductors; from health care to retailing; and from automobiles to financial... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
done. Nor was he the elegant Robert E. Lee, fending off superior forces through ingenious defensive maneuvers. Instead he was the relentless Ulysses S. Grant—grinding out a series of costly victories at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and finally in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Excellence in Work-Family Research from the Boston College Center for Work and Family and Purdue University Center for Families for "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense Against... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
he's wrong.' I did. The rest is history.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “It's hard to be bullish on the U.S. equity market, which continues to go up. We're not going to be in a permanent expansion with little inflation forever. So Sanford Bernstein has... View Details