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- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
favors so-called "barbell strategies" in which a portion of the business portfolio is created to guarantee survival in the event of a Black Swan so that the more innovative and entrepreneurial remainder of the portfolio can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
think the fundamental issue is not the rate of adoption of the e-reader, or whether publishers will survive in their current form, or what their role will be in the future," Olson comments. "The fundamental question at the very... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opened operations in France and Mexico in 2005, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going concern. A diverse group of private investors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
George, and others describe. Maybe Jobs, Bezos, Gates, and others are the exceptions that didn't get cashed out. They survived the venture capitalist's "purge" by growing their companies in ways that allowed them to retain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
get the water they need to support basic human survival is not the perfect solution either. "You still have the problem of the huge year-to-year volatility of water available," said one student. "You absolutely have a... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Patient–Physician Gender Concordance and Increased Mortality Among Female Heart Attack Patients By: Greenwood, Brad, Seth Carnahan, and Laura Huang Abstract—We examine patient gender... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
of Your Organization Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Can leaders anticipate disaster? How Does Disaster Change Leadership Goals? Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival On a trek across Antarctica, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in ice. How did Shackleton lead his... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
system to provide good matches so patients survive longer, but with fairness. By contrast, rather than designing a policy and then looking at what the outcomes are, Trichakis and his coauthors allow policymakers to start with desired... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
big-brand retailer seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape. What's its secret? Research Papers Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply LandscapeThe impact of customer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
controlling the stadium. "If we didn't have that lease," he said, "there's a high probability that the team would have gone to St. Louis." As Kraft understood, credibility is essential to survival in hardball... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
fits with their clubs? One sees time and time again that processes used to determine a good fit are deemed successful after the fact—a classic case of survival bias. So how can we tell if one is a good fit? And what are the dimensions of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
and consumers will embrace this new mode of payment. Either way, even if Apple stumbles with its mobile wallet, the company will likely survive the reputation hit. "Any failure Apple experiences here will be more than offset by the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
movie survives in theaters is not a very useful measure, because it mostly reflects the choice for either a "platform" or "sleeper" release strategy. The former is common for releases by major studios, whereas the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
rise in lift outs makes perfect sense when we recognize the most-promising candidates for group defection: High-functioning employees who have worked together and can hit the ground running. Teams are common in professional-service industries, such as law, consulting,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
the R&D of incumbents do not achieve this objective because they encourage the survival and expansion of low-type firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44490 Does Financial Misconduct Affect the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne