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26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

overseeing all strategy-related activities—from formulation to execution. It is not intended to perform all of this work, but to facilitate the process so that strategy execution gets accomplished in an integrated fashion across the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

on; beginning an intervention with the offender early on; providing an opportunity for attitude improvement, possibly with the engagement of a counselor or coach; and then terminating in a timely fashion the employee who is unable to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

create the sense of urgency needed to perform better. An example. At a major European retailer, margins were shrinking year after year because fashionable boutiques were taking its top-of-the-line business, and discounters were taking... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

an integrated fashion to achieve real impact. Competitiveness strategies combine efforts to upgrade general conditions in an economy with efforts that are targeted at the specific conditions affecting individual groups of activities.... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

opened a small American Chinese restaurant in Dallas, and in the classic fashion to save money, I would often help out. At HBS, I have had the privilege to explore, reflect, and find my calling. I realize that I love food and restaurants!... View Details

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

capacity of different hospitals can be readily compared. As measurement and investment experts, FASB’s governors are capable of and motivated to fashion a standard that clearly addresses this issue. Their focus would be to protect the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

to become so skilled as problem solvers, they had to be led through their training by a capable team leader and group leader. The team leader and group leader were capable of teaching these skills in a directed, learn-by-doing fashion, because they too were... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

evolving challenges and opportunities for innovative business models like Kaspi.kz.” More on Middle East & North Africa Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye Yazan Halwani (MBA 2020) pursued an HBS MBA to gain the business skills he needed to further his artistic... View Details

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

showcased the ongoing appeal of its more timeless products while expanding into fashionable clothing and accessories for men and women. "You can buy the classic trench coat forever. But we've introduced products that have added more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

November 2022 (Revised June 2023)
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UGG Steps into the Metaverse

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Sharon Joseph, Sunil Gupta and Julia Kelley

In the fall of 2022, boot maker UGG and its parent company, Deckers, were working to position the brand in the nascent but fast growing metaverse. The metaverse, the online realm that individual users could navigate as digital avatars, was becoming more commercialized,... View Details

Keywords: Metaverse; Digital Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Internet and the Web; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; Fashion Industry; United States

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July 2015 (Revised January 2020)
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Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport

By: Geoffrey Jones, Michael Norris and Sophi Kim

The case focuses on the career of Horst Dassler, the son of the founder of the German-based sports shoe manufacturer Adidas. The origins of the firm were in the interwar years, and it rose to public prominence after it provided spikes for Jesse Owens, the famous... View Details

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21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

American management today, we would argue, is that it has succeeded in assuming many of the appearances and privileges of professionalism while evading the attendant constraints and responsibilities. Although it is now fashionable in some... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

point is the most crucial—employee trust is hard to regain once it’s lost. E = Execute your organization’s post-COVID workforce plan in a timely fashion and evaluate your progress constantly. Ultimately, the TAKE framework is about... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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29 Oct 2006
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The History and Influence of Andy Grove

in 1993, and we stayed in touch in a desultory fashion ever since. Andy believes in "strategy by speechmaking." Because he has a sense of history, he often uses analogies from the past to illustrate his arguments. I am an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

that most excited Williams. Speaking on the outdoor patio of the Kigali Marriott a few days before the BAL championship, he noted that, earlier in the week, he had attended a curated meal of African cuisine that featured a fashion show.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

the typewriter, keeping thirty short stories at a time out for consideration and ignoring hundreds of rejections. He was the purest sort of entrepreneur, fashioning something out of nothing more substantial than a typewriter, paper, and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Noel Watson

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20 Mar 2000
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Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

literally last night, Lycos Labs. Our goal will be to partner with angels, VCs, universities, in a fashion whereby several young companies will get the opportunity to start their business on our campus here in the Waltham area."... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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The Office of Strategy Management

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

UGG Steps into the Metaverse

Horst Dassler, Adidas, and the Commercialization of Sport

Is Business Management a Profession?

Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

Leadership and Teaming

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Full Court Press

One Man Crime Wave

Curriculum Vitae

Noel Watson

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?