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  • 07 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus was no exception. Everyone felt a keen sense of loss for a man who was an iconic figure in the worlds of technology,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this... View Details
  • Web

CEO Leadership - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

how quickly you understand, accept, and confront the seven surprises will have a lot to do with your success or failure as a CEO. Read longer article excerpts and discussion at HBS Working Knowledge: (1) and (2) . Listen to Jay Lorsch... View Details
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School shared advice for nonprofits facing dire financial challenges. How can donors support social impact organizations through a recession? Michael Chu: Support proven organizations with... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

March 3rd at Harvard Business School, discussing their successes and failures as entrepreneurs. The common themes: Jump in, take risks, challenge yourself, trust your instincts, and learn from both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Management; International Relations; Leadership
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  • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (B)

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures, the evolution of its business model, and the organizational processes relied upon by Enron's management to drive and monitor the business. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Risk Management; Management Practices and Processes; Success; Business Model; Strategy; Business History; Governance Controls; Innovation and Management; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
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  • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
  • Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Presents a brief historical overview of Enron's rise, its strategic successes and failures, the evolution of its business model, and the organizational processes relied upon by Enron's management to drive and monitor the business. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
Keywords: Adaptation; Success; Business Model; Business History; Growth Management; Governance Controls; Innovation and Management; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

conservationist, and a longtime board member and chair of Patagonia. He’s also an investor and co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life-sciences venture firm. From his perspective across so many sectors and industries, Conn sees a business... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • Web

Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare and family growth Elder care and... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

case. For example, Rowland Freeman opined, "Intelligence is of value, but more important is demonstrated common sense. Some of the most intelligent leaders I have known were failures at leadership." As Malvin Bernal put it,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

GO: AFRICA Fellowships the School is able to grant each year, as well as the size of each fellowship award. While HBS hopes to grant every recipient the maximum award amount for which they qualify, it may not always be possible. *For startups, preference is to fund... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • February 1999 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

Transformation of Pratt & Whitney North Haven (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Jeffrey L. Bradach, Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Business unit manager Tom Hutton has empowered a group of hourly workers to purchase grit blast equipment for two cells. The capital purchase decision runs into some problems when the two cells fail to reach an agreement on which equipment to purchase. A rewritten... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Decision Making; Labor; Managerial Roles; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Power and Influence; Hardware
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  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

success over the top. You may be immune to the grosser forms of celebration—how many really believed Dennis Koslowski's financial excesses at Tyco were a sign of good business leadership?—but culture is a strong shaper of worldview. These... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

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

to in July and December. Now, we’ll look at what they have been doing to cope with the circumstances. Forced to stop and rethink every aspect of their businesses from the morning commute to the mission statement, these inspiring CEOs have... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

Why did a group of Harvard Business School professors become interested in an innovative new heart surgery technique? It turns out that a hospital's operating room provides an excellent controlled arena from which to explore the role that... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

years. Companies need a way to unlock the process of innovation and create innovation-driven growth businesses again and again. How can managers increase the probability that their decisions will lead to success? Now more than ever,... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony