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Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while... View Details
- October 2009
- Article
Making Time Off Predictable—and Required
By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
Perlow, Leslie, and Jessica L. Porter. "Making Time Off Predictable—and Required." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009).
- 28 Apr 2015
- News
Beyond the Classroom
- 11 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Recap of the 4th Annual Women in Investing Summit
Caitlin Riederer (MBA ’20) co-chaired the 2018 Women in Investing Summit. Prior to attending HBS, she worked in private equity at Charlesbank Capital Partners and strategy consulting at The Boston Consulting Group. Caitlin received... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
Citigroup: Re-Branding in 2007 (A)
By: Rohit Deshpandé and Carin-Isabel Knoop
With its history of growth through acquisition, Citigroup has a conglomeration of sub-brands that need to be integrated and rationalized. Ajay Banga, CEO of Citi's Global Consumer Group International, chairs a task force to work through the process of re-branding the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Customer Focus and Relationships; Globalization; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Deshpandé, Rohit, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Citigroup: Re-Branding in 2007 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-010, February 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
- 15 Aug 2014
- News
Getting a handle on inversion
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle
- 03 Apr 2015
- News
How To Run A Business Without Any Bosses
Ryan L. Raffaelli
Ryan Raffaelli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the MBA course "Leadership: Execution and Action Planning" (LEAP) and serves... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
incident reflected their passion about schoolwork, and the other half, how the incident reflected how emotional they were. Listeners then were asked to rate their partners’ competence. The passionate group was seen as “significantly more... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
corporation behind me when things weren’t working out. The impact of a bad decision or process was much greater with no safety net.” – Karen Young, CEO and founder, Oui Shave Startup with limited leadership experience. View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- November 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
reMarkable: e-Writing the Future
By: Elie Ofek and Curtis Hsu
Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having solved the frustrating “slow ink” problem typically experienced on pen-based electronic devices, thus providing a “pen and paper” like... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Innovation Management; Go To Market Strategy; Marketing Plan; Target Market; Digital Devices; Consumer Electronics; Forecasting; Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Management; Marketing Channels; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Marketing; Product Development; Electronics Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Curtis Hsu. "reMarkable: e-Writing the Future." Harvard Business School Case 517-018, November 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
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Leadership, Innovation, and Strategic Change: A Conversation with Michael Tushman
By: Michael L. Tushman, Sorah Seong, Yeongsu Kim and Gabriel Szulanski
Continuing the emerging tradition of the Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) Interest Group at the Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference to interview foundational scholars in strategic management, we invited Professor Michael Tushman from Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Technological Change; Management Education; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Change Management; Business Education
Tushman, Michael L., Sorah Seong, Yeongsu Kim, and Gabriel Szulanski. "Leadership, Innovation, and Strategic Change: A Conversation with Michael Tushman." Journal of Management Inquiry 24, no. 4 (October 2015): 370–381.
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
responsibilities? Four years ago, I set out to answer that question. I interviewed more than one hundred managers. They ranged from supervisors to CEOs and came from fifteen countries. Most worked in businesses, but the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets
By: Achal Bassamboo, Ruomeng Cui and Antonio Moreno
Prediction is an important activity in various business processes, but it becomes difficult when historical information is not available, such as forecasting demand of a new product. One approach that can be applied in such situations is to crowdsource opinions from... View Details
Keywords: Wisdom Of Crowds; Demand Forecasting; Price Forecasting; Forecasting and Prediction; Social and Collaborative Networks; Size; Performance
Bassamboo, Achal, Ruomeng Cui, and Antonio Moreno. "The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets." Working Paper, 2019.
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
businesses and governments in emerging economies have all been pressing for a closer convergence of first- and third-world business models for the private sector. The details differ, but the advice boils down to the same thing in virtually every emerging economy:... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- October 2002 (Revised August 2004)
- Case
Canary Wharf
By: William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel and Camille Douglas
On September 25, 2002, Peter Anderson was due to meet with Morgan Stanley in ten minutes. Anderson had been the finance director of Canary Wharf Group (CWG) since Paul Reichmann and a group of investors had repurchased Canary Wharf in 1995. Anderson had joined Olympia... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business or Company Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Success
Poorvu, William J., Arthur I Segel, and Camille Douglas. "Canary Wharf." Harvard Business School Case 803-058, October 2002. (Revised August 2004.)
- 02 Mar 2022
- News
From Strength to Strength: A Book Launch Event with Arthur C. Brooks
- 17 May 2021
- News
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
- February 1979
- Article
Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile
Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Social Psychology; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment
Amabile, T. M. "Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37, no. 2 (February 1979): 221–233.