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  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

be.” — Admiral James Stockdale. In August, while most developed nations’ rates of COVID-19 infections are falling, the rate in the United States continues to rise. States that had reopened or begun to, such as California and Texas, have... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • News

Harvard business professor discusses women in leadership roles

  • 03 Dec 2014
  • News

The Internet of Things to bring a new economic boom

  • January 1997
  • Case

Dr. Sergio Ceccuzzi and SMI: Negotiating Cross-Border Acquisitions in Europe (B)

By: James K. Sebenius
Since the 1960s, SMI has quietly executed a series of brilliantly negotiated takeovers throughout Europe, often acquiring companies much larger than itself. Despite formidable obstacles, SMI has managed to acquire state-owned competitors in Italy and France, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Corporate Governance; International Relations; Negotiation Tactics; Consolidation; Mining Industry; Europe
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  • 19 Oct 2020
  • Video

New Cash House Name Unveiled

  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

raising a family in a land that delivers Franklin Roosevelt's (and Norman Rockwell's) four freedoms. Still others dream of their children accessing the highest possible level of education, living healthy lives, being good citizens in their communities. As defined View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • February 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Equity Bank: Challenging a Giant

By: Lauren H. Cohen, Michael Chitavi and Spencer C. N. Hagist
Equity Bank and CEO Dr. James Mwangi must find a way to advance from their hard-fought ascension to second largest bank in Kenya by toppling financial giant Safaricom. Doing so means developing a new strategy and tackling technological frontiers no institution in the... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Finance; Strategy; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Kenya
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  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

medical radiation safety. "The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies." “There was suddenly a huge spike in the public’s attention on medical radiation risk,” says Hong Luo, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 08 Mar 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

School cases by James Sebenius and Ellen Knebel explore successful deal-making strategies. How Can Women Negotiate Past Gender Stereotypes? Gender in Job Negotiations: A... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

trust. Building trust is crucial for successful negotiations between cultures, yet intercultural negotiations are often characterized by a lack of trust. We discuss what trust is, why it matters, and why it is so difficult to establish in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1991 (Revised January 1997)
  • Case

Beatrice Companies--1985

By: David J. Collis
Describes the history of Beatrice Companies from its beginning as a dairy in 1891 to 1985, when the company was a $12 billion conglomerate. Focuses on the corporate strategies that Beatrice followed under each of its CEOs and concentrates on the company's strategic... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • News

Pro-Baby, but Stingy With Money to Support Them

  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

say to them? Rangan, head of the HBS faculty marketing unit, has been wrestling with the limits of social marketing for a decade. McCaffrey was so impressed by a talk Rangan gave several years ago on "marketing to the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth (HBS MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • News

Is There an Optimal Rich-Poor Gap?

  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

grown." These persistent problems seem to demand new models and new ways of thinking to crack them, and in that spirit Wei-Skillern and her HBS colleagues James E. Austin, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, and Howard H. Stevenson... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

untested arenas that define the company as it exists today. "This case distills 20 years of my thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence in the frame of a very relevant company," says Koehn, the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage