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  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • Career Coach

Mo Fong

change, accelerating in their current role or looking to make a career pivot. Mo has experience in building teams, transforming people managers to great leaders while navigating through life changes... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Education; Government; Social Enterprise; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All)
  • Career Coach

Aaron Mitchell

and companies make unexpected connections to address challenges, broaden perspectives and redefine what prosperity means. He was recently the Director of HR for Netflix Animation, where he led HR for one of the largest and fastest growing animation studios in history.... View Details
  • Profile

Katy Lankester

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I came to business school to strengthen my judgement, because I believe as a leader I will be required to make important decisions with imperfect information. The big decisions will be... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

Bazerman show that going by gut is no longer enough—successful leaders need frameworks for moving between data and decisions. Experiments can save companies money—eBay, for example, discovered how to cut $50... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Program

Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

organizations and drive an AI-first culture. Leaders in Virtual Learning When you participate in a virtual HBS Executive Education program, you benefit from a powerful learning experience carefully designed... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

with our sample. Such activities “made me feel empowered once I completed the tasks,” in the words of one CEO, and “helped me to feel that I was not wasting my time and helped me to not be too hard on myself,” according to another. These activities went beyond mere... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 19 Nov 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Duane Varan, MediaScience and Murdoch University

  • April 2021
  • Case

Glass-Shattering Leaders: Michele Hooper

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
Michele Hooper joined the board of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation when she was in her late thirties, becoming the company’s youngest director as well as the only woman and the only person of color in the boardroom. Such “firsts” were not unusual for Hooper, who had been... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Corporate Governance; Personal Development and Career
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  • 23 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

research: How do you help experts help novices?” Researchers refer to the problem as the "curse of knowledge." Zhang is on a mission to break the curse. In her research on the psychology of rediscovery, she's looking into how experts can rediscover the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 01 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow. Denial The "change journeys" of the leaders and laggards, which often come in three phases, could not be more different. For laggards, that journey looks like this, Kanter said.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

Keywords: by Richard L. Nolan; Education
  • 02 May 2023
  • Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

Rodolfo A. Diaz Cabello (MBA 2021) reflects on how his experiences at Harvard Business School supported his path to building new products at Spotify. In October 2022 I joined Spotify as a Senior Product Manager leading a team that... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Struggle is an experience we instinctively avoid, looking for any way to minimize the hard work and pain involved in getting what we want. And yet—nearly every book we read and movie we watch involves someone struggling mightily to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal

By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Betrayal; Populism; Incompetence; Literacy; Crime and Corruption; Income; Ethics; Political Elections; Race; Residency
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  • Summer 2021
  • Article

Platform Leadership and Supply Chains: Intel, Centrino, and the Restructuring of Wi-Fi Supply

By: Roberto Fontana and Shane Greenstein
In this paper we examine Intel’s launch of Centrino and interpret it as platform leaders attempt to restructure a supply chain. We provide a narrative of key actions and how they coordinated changes and offer a framework of the predictable consequences for... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Supply Chain; Restructuring; Framework
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  • September 2008 (Revised March 2009)
  • Supplement

Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and facilities, and other administrative roles for the combined company. She... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • 29 Apr 2020
  • Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

A recent conference at Harvard Business School addressed the on-the-ground reality of women leaders 50 years after the first women were admitted to the School's two-year MBA Program. And the reality is that women View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish