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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
targets, but a tactical tool that’s rarely part of strategy formulation. Develop the best product, and let the sales department figure out the best way to get it to the customer, they think. And many sales leaders like View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- October 2018
- Article
Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy
This paper addresses primarily two questions. First, when (and why) should a company’s strategy be developed by its CEO versus by some outside analyst or other insider? Second, how does strategy interact with vision (in the sense of a strong belief about the right... View Details
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Strategy and the Strategist: How it Matters Who Develops the Strategy." Management Science 64, no. 10 (October 2018): 4533–4551.
- January 2025
- Teaching Plan
Patch Technology: Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing
By: Tomomichi Amano
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 522-037. View Details
- April 2024
- Case
Cyrus: Turning a Traditional Business Model on Its Head (A)
By: James Heskett
The loss of the lease at their Michelin-starred Cyrus 1.0 in Sonoma County, California gives the partners an opportunity to shut down and rework a “broken” business model, one with labor intensive experiences six or seven nights a week, high burnout, high... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Retention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leasing; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Loss; Profit; Working Conditions; California
Heskett, James. "Cyrus: Turning a Traditional Business Model on Its Head (A)." Harvard Business School Case 924-303, April 2024.
- Article
World Can Have COVID Boosters and Its First Doses, Too
Kominers, Scott Duke. "World Can Have COVID Boosters and Its First Doses, Too." Bloomberg Opinion (September 28, 2021).
- April 2019
- Teaching Note
Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?
By: Elie Ofek
Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-006. View Details
- August 1995
- Case
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: IT Organization and Architecture Challenges
By: Richard L. Nolan
Presents the outcome of Air Products ICON decentralization projects. New issues are explored, including the challenges of having a decentralized MIS staff, global network, client/server architecture, new data center issues, outsourcing, a new highly strategic customer... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges
Nolan, Richard L. "Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: IT Organization and Architecture Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 196-017, August 1995.
- July 2005
- Teaching Note
Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank (TN)
Teaching Note to (9-304-055). View Details
- June 2004
- Teaching Note
Nehemiah Strategy, The: Bringing it to Boston (Multimedia Case) (TN)
By: Diana Barrett and Arthur I Segel
Teaching Note to (4-303-130), (9-304-082), and (9-304-810). View Details
Keywords: Boston
- October 1990 (Revised January 1991)
- Case
AB Volvo: Organizational Development and Its Impact on Information Systems
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "AB Volvo: Organizational Development and Its Impact on Information Systems." Harvard Business School Case 491-034, October 1990. (Revised January 1991.)
- September 2001
- Article
The International Competitiveness of the UK and its Multinational Enterprises
By: L. Nachum, G. Jones and J. H. Dunning
Nachum, L., G. Jones, and J. H. Dunning. "The International Competitiveness of the UK and its Multinational Enterprises." Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 12, no. 3 (September 2001): 277–294.
- February 21, 2025
- Article
How a Company’s Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes
By: Josh Baron
Why do some companies continue to thrive for decades and others die after an initial run of success? Like many kinds of accidents, company failure is generally the consequence of cascading effects that combine to overwhelm a previously effective strategy. But the... View Details
Baron, Josh. "How a Company’s Ownership Model Shapes the Mistakes It Makes." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 21, 2025).
- September 23, 2024
- Article
AI Wants to Make You Less Lonely. Does It Work?
De Freitas, Julian. "AI Wants to Make You Less Lonely. Does It Work?" Wall Street Journal (September 23, 2024), R.11.
- Article
Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status
By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
Past research demonstrates that people prefer to affiliate with others who resemble them demographically. However, we posit that when competing for scarce opportunities, strategic considerations moderate the strength of this tendency toward homophily. Across six... View Details
Kirgios, Erika L., Edward H. Chang, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161 (November 2020): 20–33.
- October 2016
- Teaching Note
OMV Petrom: Investment as Partnership—When It Takes Three to Tango
By: Dante Roscini and Emer Moloney
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-035. View Details
- September 1995 (Revised March 1999)
- Teaching Note
Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (A) and (B) TN
- June–July 1996
- Article
It Doesn't Take a Wizard to Build a Better Boss
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "It Doesn't Take a Wizard to Build a Better Boss." Fast Company (June–July 1996).
- November–December 1991
- Article
How Capital Budgeting Deters Innovation--And What To Do About It
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "How Capital Budgeting Deters Innovation--And What To Do About It." Research-Technology Management (November–December 1991).
- Apr 2009
- Keynote Speech
Digital Technology and Its Implications for Content Providers and Aggregators
By: Anita Elberse
- November 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Tim Ferriss: What Might This Look like If It Were Easy?
By: Reza Satchu and Denise Koller
In April 2024, writer-podcaster Tim Ferriss—celebrated as the “Oprah of audio” for his billion-download show and known for NYT-bestsellers like The 4-Hour Workweek—found himself at a crossroads. Despite generating a multi-million-dollar annual revenue with just three... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Personal Development and Career; Business Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Satchu, Reza, and Denise Koller. "Tim Ferriss: What Might This Look like If It Were Easy?" Harvard Business School Case 825-091, November 2024. (Revised March 2025.)