Top Management Team - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

with a more stable job with more predictable schedules and income. Build out your support team You (and your partner) may be able to “outsource” the tasks that would otherwise put stressful pressures on your time. Look for opportunities... View Details

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

auditing as a profession? Srinivasan: Auditors are in an interesting position. They rely on management teams in a lot of ways, but they also have an adversarial relationship. They verify that companies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

maciek905 Started in 2011, the Autism at Work program grew from what was a side project by the head of SAP Labs in India into a companywide effort to have 1 percent of its workforce comprised of individuals with ASD. V. R. Ferose, then View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

11 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

efforts in two recent cases, “The Brand Management of Places” and “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?” Success without a roadmap Government and business leaders hoping to shift the conversation about their regions might... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism

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Teele Hall | About

and staffing new business schools in other countries, including IMEDE in Lausanne, Switzerland, and INSEAD in Paris, as well as programs at the University of Istanbul in Turkey and Keio University in Japan. A great believer in broadening the reach of View Details

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

my vehicle' rather than 'the inspector accurately measured my vehicle's emissions,'" says Toffel, an associate professor and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at HBS. "This results in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

black plumber. Some brochures included a line that TrapGuard was certified by the International Plumbing Code, a set of standards developed by the International Code Council. Others did not. A month later, the research team followed up... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

IBM Corporation Turnaround

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan

Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

of an idea with the potential to solve a problem or address an unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” learning and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

decision was announced captures the despair and anger of the workers to be displaced. It also captures a management team trying to act reasonably by giving workers a rare one-year notice of the move—but... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the CLIMB program , Leadership & Management and Strategy track. Introduction to Strategy Execution ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Strategy Execution $1,850... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

capabilities approach and postulates that "legal astuteness"—defined here as the ability of the top management team to communicate effectively with counsel and to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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History - Entrepreneurship

Nevertheless – whether by dint of past experience, summer internship or just good fortune, there are usually at least 100 potential new ventures being explored in any given year. As it has grown, the Rock Center has earned a reputation as the View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

September 2017 Management Science Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management By: Gallino, Santiago, Antonio Moreno, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos Abstract—We study the effects of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2025
Case

Harvey: AI for Lawyers

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Charles Krumholz and Radhika Kak

In early 2025, Winston Weinberg and Gabe Pereyra, co-founders of Harvey AI, reflected on the company’s meteoric rise as a pioneer in AI-powered legal technology. Since its founding in 2022, Harvey had transformed how lawyers approached research, drafting, and document... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Legal Services Industry; Technology Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco; London