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  • 2002
  • Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

storage, or create the new clean hydrogen infrastructure. Nabil's role prior to HBS was a Consultant at BCG. Daniel Tong (MBA 2023, Section C), Summer Internship: Strategy & Finance Director at... View Details

    David A. Thomas

    David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.  He recently served as a... View Details

    Keywords: consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting; consulting
    • 04 Jun 2020
    • Book

    It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

    for teams to thrive, even in the leader’s absence. Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard Business School, served as senior vice president for leadership and strategy at Uber and has View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • April 2006
    • Article

    Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company

    By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
    When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Fluctuation; Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Quality; Decision Making; Market Transactions; Performance Effectiveness; Customers; Insurance Industry; Sweden
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    • 08 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8, 2008

    and practice are discussed. Download the revised paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf   PublicationsShould You Invest in the Long Tail? Author:Anita Elberse Periodical:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July-August 2008): 88-96... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    history project. We covered three complementary areas of discussion: unconventional techniques, unconventional sources, and unconventional capitalisms. Apr 16 16 Apr 2019 Noon Seminar Series Strategy Professionals and Practice Change:... View Details
    • 16 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

    getting the feedback they need, and they’re happy in the firm so they’re less likely to quit,” says Rembrand Koning, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s Strategy Unit who was a coauthor of the study. "Our findings... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 May 2019
    • News

    Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

    She launched the nonprofit consulting practice at the Parthenon Group. Then in 2010, her friend Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who had built Social Finance UK with David Blood (MBA 1985), was looking to expand the organization. “Tracy had... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

    A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 25 Feb 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    • 09 Jun 2022
    • HBS Case

    From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

    the company was able to maintain its position as one of the top three food distribution companies in the US among rivals Sysco and Performance Food Group, capturing 10 percent of market share. US Foods’ strategy provides valuable lessons... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 04 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

    Got a problem? Throw some collaboration software at it. It's a common strategy among today's managers: Organizations spend a lot of money on technology that enables employees to tackle problems collectively. Hence, the market is rife with... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
    • 08 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 8, 2007

    problems that it presents to government officials and to business leaders in developed countries and in the developing world. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707015 Latvia: Economic View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Quantum Leap

    “This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

    operating system companies need both end-users and application developers. Increasingly, thanks in large part to technology and the Internet, multi-sided markets are becoming more common. But how do they work? What are effective View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 28 Nov 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

    products, but they became worldwide brands because of the capabilities of Unilever. Their success rested on the choices made on strategy and organization, on the recruitment and development of managers, on the allocation of spending... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
    • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    Acelerex

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    online building materials auction exchange. Business Track, 1998 Zefer Anthony Tjan Matthew Burkley Alexandre Scherer Business Track Winner Interactive consultancy focused on web-enabled strategy Crimson... View Details
    • 31 Aug 2021
    • Book

    Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

    doctor turned social entrepreneur, a Bangladeshi policeman, an American business consultant trying to create change, and a Polish Holocaust survivor—and included both historical examples and contemporary anecdotes about how people have... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald