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Dorothy A. Leonard

Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Chinua Achebe, A Daughter of Han, by Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai, and No Future Without Forgiveness, by Desmond Tutu. Joseph Fuller There is something special about visiting your local... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

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

July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Case

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg

By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... View Details

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22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

Podcast with: Joseph Bower Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 8 min., 23 sec. In early September, Ford Motor Company announced that Bill Ford would be replaced as CEO by Boeing's Alan Mulally, credited with the turnaround of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the decreasing revenues created falling margins and increased leverage throughout the industry. View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

talented managers around the world will want to work for them. Fewer distributors will feel obliged to stock them. And new products that have been accustomed to gaining distribution on the back of their companies' global brands will find... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

"a sorry receiver," followed by a message for Crabtree: "Don't you ever talk about me!" Twitter members reacted forcefully and en masse, to the point that major news networks published stories with headlines like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

during a symposium celebrating von Hippel’s 70th birthday. Those papers—many of them written by von Hippel’s former students and colleagues—became the bones of the book Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Apr 2014
News

Sir Alex Ferguson To Teach In Harvard Business School's Executive Education Programs

23 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

the recent Climate Change Challenge assignment in Technology & Operations Management, a required first-year course taught by Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and BEI... View Details

June 2004
Article

A Catering Theory of Dividends

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler

We propose that the decision to pay dividends is driven by prevailing investor demand for dividend payers. Managers cater to investors by paying dividends when investors put a stock price premium on payers, and by not paying when investors prefer nonpayers. To test... View Details

Keywords: Dividends; Catering; Financial Instruments; Investment Return; Business and Shareholder Relations

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10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

said Upton, are market making and inter-business processes. Market makers, he said, go by many names: hubs, portals, infomediaries. "There are just so many words for it because everyone wants to say ours is different. "But the... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the seats, balancing costs, and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

Board Still, Feeley remains bullish on the value of value-based health care, and is heartened by high-level interest by government officials. Over the past few months, Feeley, Porter, and Kaplan met with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Ashish Nanda

Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent

Lagos Business School-Pan African University. Robin Kibuka, an adviser in the Africa Department of the International Monetary Fund, said, "Globalization is a force for development, but clearly it is a force for development that will have to be View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

organization is being undermined by the declining commitments of governments. Still, the organization is very young, and the promise of its management of international trade disputes, as well as the gradual... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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