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  • 10 Jul 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • January 2024
  • Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Strategic Planning; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Retail Industry; United States; Arizona
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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

was perceived as “too nice” to be a manager (my male boss actually said this). I also experienced harassment from male colleagues and more subtle gendered/sexual comments, which undermined my professional authority within my View Details
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

for tactical purposes, such as promotional campaigns. Its management team is thinking about how to incorporate that information to the budgeting (profit-planning) process. From an analytical standpoint the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Picture the Jamaican bobsled team going for the gold at the Winter Olympics. Or competitors in what seem fundamentally unbalanced battles: the Chicago Cubs versus the New York Yankees, Apple versus Microsoft, and Southwest Airlines versus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

organizations in private industry could learn from the example of Data.gov to the extent of unlocking data from individual silos in their firm even though data remain protected within firewalls. HBS assistant professor Karim R. Lakhani, who specializes in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

business for 20 years. Its acquisition of Jet.com, however, let Walmart aggressively expand the top line of its platform revenue and bring in a team that understood platforms. Although still far behind... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

in press Academy of Management Annals Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures By: DeSantola, Alicia, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to growth, particularly in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

failures are likely to spur problem solving. We hypothesize that problem solving activities are especially likely to follow reported operational failures that provoke financial and legal liability risks. We also hypothesize that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

home after a nearly 16-hour meeting. He was grappling with whether to take the global sales and marketing team manager position that had been offered to him and had spent the entire day with the senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do it successfully until now. In this article, an MIT engineering professor and a Tuck professor of management explain why. After conducting a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

  Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

business' role in society and developing a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into action. Our Mission & Team Climate Fellows Racial Equity Fellows We are in an era defined by global challenges and rapid change. A warming... View Details