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    What five extraordinary leaders during turbulent times can teach today's leaders

    Historian Nancy Koehn says great leaders are not born, they're made.

    Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian, is the author of a new book called "Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times." It examines the lives, successes... View Details

    • November 2018
    • Case

    Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
    Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European... View Details
    Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management; Energy Transmission; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Switzerland
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    • 20 Sep 2017
    • News

    Harvard Business School report highlights ranked choice voting among reforms

    • Dec 2019
    • Survey

    A Recovery Squandered

    Despite a decade of steady economic growth since the Great Recession, America has done remarkably little to address underlying structural weaknesses in the country’s economy and society. Surveys of HBS alumni worldwide, HBS MBA students, and members of the U.S. public... View Details
    • May 2007 (Revised July 2007)
    • Case

    JetBlue: Prepare for Financing

    The CFO of JetBlue is trying to decide which of two financing proposals to pursue. A straight equity issue will dilute his principal shareholders' ownership, but seems like the safer alternative in an industry that is notorious for its high failure rate. On the other... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 14 Jan 2014
    • News

    Lessons Learned From The Original 'Amazing Race'

    • December 2021 (Revised January 2023)
    • Supplement

    Katerra (B)

    By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
    In May 2020, SoftBank executives, having invested nearly $2 billion in Katerra, decided the vision of an end-to-end, vertically-integrated construction process was worth saving—with some major changes to company structure. The SoftBank Vision Fund invested $200 million... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Failure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Entrepreneurship; Construction; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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    • March 9, 2023
    • Article

    Linking Growth and the Frontline

    By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
    Most strategies are about growing the business. But about one quarter of companies do not grow at all and, even before the pandemic, only one in eight achieved more than 10% revenue growth annually, according to data from S&P Global regulatory filings. One reason is a... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Competency and Skills
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    • 06 Sep 2012
    • News

    Stop beating up the Rich

    • July 2020
    • Article

    Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
    This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation
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    • 22 Dec 2016
    • News

    Target's Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake

    • September 2004
    • Article

    Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen
    Rational agents with differing priors tend to be overoptimistic about their chances of success. In particular, an agent who tries to choose the action that is most likely to succeed, is more likely to choose an action of which he overestimated, rather than... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Expectations; Outcome or Result; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Failure; Success; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Characteristics; Values and Beliefs; Ethics
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    Interfirm Alliances as Competitive Weapons

    How do alliances affect the evolution of an industry and its constituent firms? Silverman is examining the dynamics of alliance- and patent-based competition in the Canadian biotechnology industry. Recent empirical research focuses on the effect of alliance patterns... View Details
    • 30 Jun 2020
    • News

    Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should

    • 2008
    • Simulation

    Everest Leadership and Team Simulation

    By: Michael A. Roberto and Amy C. Edmondson
    This item is currently not available for purchase on this site. To order, please contact Customer Service - (800) 545-7685 or (617) 783-7600. **REVISED AUGUST 2009!** This web-based simulation uses the dramatic context of a Mount Everest expedition to reinforce student... View Details
    Keywords: Cooperation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership
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    Contextual Intelligence

    By: Tarun Khanna
    The author has come to a conclusion that may surprise you: trying to apply management practices uniformly across geographies is a fool's errand. Best practices simply don't travel well across borders. That's because conditions not just of economic development but of... View Details
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    • May 9, 2024
    • Article

    Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Business schools have lost their way. Students are schooled in a system that, having raised the standard of living for millions of people over centuries, is now facing systemic failures in both the environmental and social domains—failures that market forces cause and,... View Details
    Keywords: Education Reform; Business And Society; Climate Change; Equality and Inequality; Environmental Sustainability; Business Education
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    • July 19, 2021
    • Article

    Do Most Family Businesses Really Fail by the Third Generation?

    By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
    Perhaps the most commonly-cited statistic about family businesses is their failure rates. Most articles or speeches about family businesses start with some version of the “three-generation rule,” which suggests that most don’t survive beyond three generations. But that... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Success; Perception
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    Agree to Disagree: Frank Discussion, Attention to Cultural Fit Can Help Avoid Recruiting Errors

    Almost everyone in health care has heard this story: With great fanfare a hospital recruits an outside star to lead a clinical program, academic department, or division. Within months it is clear to almost everyone that the marriage is a failure. To better understand... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • 05 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

    R&D Failures By: Krieger, Joshua Lev Abstract— I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors' failures as well as through their own results.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne