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Business Economics - Doctoral

lens of business. Jointly administered by HBS and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the program combines theoretical analysis with in-depth, interdisciplinary research rooted in real-world applications.... View Details

    Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face--And What to Do About It (March 2010)

    Denial -- the unconscious belief that a certain fact is too terrible to face and therefore cannot be true -- has torpedoed many good businesses and more than a few great ones. It turns challenges into crises, and dilemmas into catastrophes. It is one of the greatest... View Details

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    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    a panel moderated by Mitchell Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at HBS, featuring insights from Anita Lynch, board member at Nasdaq US Exchanges; Jonathan Zittrain, the George... View Details
    • March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
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    IBM Corporation Turnaround

    By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan
    Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising. by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and... View Details
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    Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

    field and advancing theoretical understanding in posts at schools of management or in disciplinary departments. The Organizational Behavior program is jointly administered by the faculty of Harvard Business School and the Department of... View Details
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    Read excerpts from DENIAL

    By: Richard S. Tedlow

    The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

    Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

     

    From Denial: Why Business... View Details

    • 2009
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    The Adventures of an IT Leader

    By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
    Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges-from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. Ultimately, a good IT manager must be a strong business leader, not just a technical... View Details
    Keywords: Books; Leadership; Crisis Management; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Safety; Information Technology
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      Stephen A. Greyser

      Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

      Keywords: sports
      • April 2005 (Revised June 2005)
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      Boeing 787: The Dreamliner

      By: Richard L. Nolan and Suresh Kotha
      Boeing dominated the commercial airline manufacturing business since bringing out the first commercial airline jet airliner. But in 2005, it delivered fewer new planes than its fast-moving competitor, Airbus. Boeing responded by transforming its manufacturing business... View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Risk Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Air Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

      HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details
      • February 2015
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      CLP: Powering Asia

      By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
      Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
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      Stories

      Ranjay Gulati (Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration); Gunnar Trumbull (Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration) 01 Jun 2025 HBS Magazine Forward Thinking Saving Giraffes from Silent Extinction Re: Susan Myers (MBA 1978);... View Details
      • 26 Apr 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: April 26

      the sale of insurance products). Moreover, the use of CLV information did not have a negative impact on pricing, as some of the literature suggests, nor on default risk, indicating that managers increased sales to more profitable customers View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Great Negotiator Study Initiative

      By: James K. Sebenius

      What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details

      • July 2011 (Revised September 2018)
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      Nashton Partners and Its Search Fund Process

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      Nashton Partners was a search fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search fund structure, the two-year search, and two potential... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Partners and Partnerships
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      • March 2011
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      The New M&A Playbook

      By: Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising and Andrew Waldeck
      Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A failure rate is between 70% and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration
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      Finance - Faculty & Research

      reduction in transaction frequency reduces the growth of property tax revenue. The fiscal externality is sizable: the resulting property tax revenue loss conservatively offsets at least two-thirds of the revenue generated by the transfer... View Details
      • 22 Sep 2009
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      First Look: September 22

      model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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      Courses - Entrepreneurship

      Courses First Year (Required Curriculum) During the first year at HBS, all students pursue the same course of study called the Required Curriculum. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of general... View Details