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  • October 2014 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution

By: Rawi Abdelal, Leonardo Maugeri and Sogomon Tarontsi
The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot—a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines—that historically tied the European Union and Russia closely. In this crisis, a familiar conundrum preoccupied minds in the corridors of... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; European Union; Russia; Ukraine
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  • October 2022
  • Article

How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Paradoxes; Senior Leaders; Organizational Reinvention; Leadership; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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  • 2012
  • Book

Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
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  • October 19, 2021
  • Article

The Facebook Trap

By: Andy Wu
Facebook has a clear mission: Connect everyone in the world. Clarity is good, but in Facebook’s case, it has also put the company in a bind because the mission—and the company’s vision for creating value through network effects—has also become the source of its biggest... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Mission and Purpose; Network Effects; Value Creation; Corporate Accountability; Strategy
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

By: Mihir A. Desai
Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States
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  • 25 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of Teaming

individual can. Yet, when individuals learn, this does not always create change in the ways the organization delivers products and services to customers. This is a conundrum that has long fascinated academics. This book offers a practical... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
  • 08 Apr 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

a conundrum for the company. Does an affordable luxury product work against the top-tier brand? How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the WorldDeconstructing ground grasshoppers, upscale Peruvian cuisine, and other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand for housing outstrips supply—a conundrum familiar to United... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate
  • 18 Apr 2007
  • HBS Case

How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor

credit, and service productivity. One of the questions posed by the case is the classic conundrum of where and how Magazine Luiza should expand while preserving its identity and culture. The case describes a large acquisition of another... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

produced one of the most exciting papers that I have worked on." The idea for the paper grew from a conundrum that Bohnet faced when she became faculty director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP).... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 05 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

professor Bharat Anand give students an introduction to the book publishing business and the emerging landscape of e-readers before presenting them with the conundrums that face Random House CEO Markus Dohle (Dohle succeeded Olson in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

"magic"-the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement-that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more executives have discovered in recent years, the answer to this View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

and you say, holy cow. That's the conundrum that Walmart is in. Think about this. There are more than 30,000 dollar stores in the US, you can find one everywhere: in rural regions you find Dollar General and in the urban settings you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

Doriot could not take the job, as he was still employed by the Army. So in the interim, the directors named him chairman of the board of directors.[ ] The group of men who founded ARD believed it could crack the conundrum of the risk-less... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/mmmf_2013-12-24_with_names.pdf August 2013 Accountancy Futures The Investor Conundrum By: Eccles, Robert G. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208029 Chile: The Conundrum of Inequality Harvard Business School Case 907-411 Following the violent overthrow of the Allende regime, Chile embarked on economic reforms that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

Business School Case 715-006 Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot-a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines-that historically tied the European Union and Russia closely. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

Investment Conundrum Harvard Business School Case 808-125 Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

he retained them in the form of repeat purchases. This was an entirely new conundrum in the company. Up to that point, customer repeat purchase rates had been incredibly consistent. Cavens and his executive team had just discovered this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 19

Investment Conundrum Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa StropeHarvard Business School Case 811-073 Hardina Smythe, a recent MBA graduate, has just joined a top-tier venture capital firm in the difficult environment of late 2010.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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