Publications

August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Gillette Company (A): Pressure for Change

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and James Weber

After years of strong performance with market-dominating brands, Gillette's performance slips and a new CEO is selected from outside the company to lead a turnaround. This case describes the business and financial situation he inherited and asks what he should do... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Performance Consistency; Product Positioning; Selection and Staffing; Change Management; Leading Change; Competitive Strategy; Planning; Retail Industry

22 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Class of 2021 Career Choices

to secure fabulous opportunities at 335 organizations all over the world. Our overall median base salary increased only slightly to $150,500 from $150,000 last year, and we didn’t see tremendous shifts in our industry percentages. We did see a strong group of students... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Aug 2015
News

Nourishing the Next Generation

When Lesley Kohn (MBA 1992) left her position as a management consultant in the tech sector in 2005 to launch Chefables, there weren’t a lot of people talking about improving school food, especially at the preschool level. “In the... View Details

11 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

force in our world, whether we like it or not. So, what are we going to do with that driving force? I also wanted my career to be grounded in the true rigor of business, and the marriage of business rigor with positive impact in the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

business rigor with positive impact in the world. These guiding lights led me to Harvard Business School. I kept hearing that the mission of HBS was to create leaders that make a positive difference in the... View Details

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

of content before the researchers saw them, but retained the addresses and positions of the recipients in order to track how the network was organized. Compared with more traditional research methods such as surveys, the data was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

March Bishop

for introspection and self-discovery. Given the breadth of the curriculum and international reach of the name, it is positioning me well for moving out into the global workforce. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals... View Details

Keywords: Services; Retail

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed by estimating a time-varying gravity equation similar to Feyrer (2009). We find that economic integration has a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

made up 46.7 percent of the US labor force, and filled more than half of management, professional, and related occupations. If the strategy was to get more women in the workplace and let them naturally ascend to positions of upper... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

The bad news is that the researchers discovered a wide divergence in opinions between how respondents thought a company should behave and how their company actually behaved. Furthermore, the lower a respondent's position in the company,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

in history. Most firms act as if false negatives don't exist because they don't have processes for managing them. In their own industries, many companies might have missed similar opportunities. Although smart organizations have traditionally taken care to minimize the... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

computer-literate consumers fail to do this homework before visiting a car dealer? Helping consumers appreciate and effectively use this information should be at the forefront of the consumer research agenda. Decision analysts also try to help negotiators avoid the... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

November 2023
Case

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)

By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai

Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Product Positioning; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China

2021
Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Water Utilities Industry

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh

We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the water utilities industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of water... View Details

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September 2001 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Stevenson Industries (A)

By: John A. Davis and Kacie LaChapelle

Simon Carlson, chairman of the board of his family's fourth-generation industrial company, must decide how to deal with his conflict with the company's nonfamily CEO. Hired by the board just 15 months earlier to pursue growth more aggressively, CEO Paul Steel has upset... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Management Succession; Management Style; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Manufacturing Industry