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- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
which sounds like such a great thing. People get to keep their jobs, the creditors get paid equity, and the customers don't lose this business that they loved,” says Antill, whose article Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? will appear... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
feedback to last month’s column Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years? The column generated profound comments but little debate. Responses, taken as a whole, represented a love fest for the case method with little question... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
reducing the demands of the position. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made it clear: If you’re unwilling to lend a hand to a co-worker to meet a customer need, you will not survive there. “When a lot is demanded of people, you have to build a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
opportunity to pivot and make changes that will allow our organizations to survive beyond the crisis?” Others are wondering if the crisis might contain opportunities: “How can we take advantage of COVID ... and think about emerging... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
they have no emotional skin in the game. They are only focused on individual objectives. They possess a survival mentality, assuming they are in the service of self. They may very well feel that they are marking time until something... View Details
- 02 Mar 2021
- HBS Case
The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?
massacre and reparations, I’m hopeful that we can all learn more about this dark period and the vexing question of how to address it,” notes Desai. While Oklahoma has acknowledged its moral responsibility, creating a memorial and giving medals to 118 View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered
receiving his BA in 1949. Two years later, he earned a doctorate in economics from Ohio State University. Levitt is survived by his wife of 58 years, the former Joan Levy, four children, and six grandchildren, as well as two sisters. To... View Details
- Web
Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets
Industries, Nations and Time By: Geoffrey Jones NOV 2017 Article Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul , Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna FALL... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
survive to this day—in schools of law, medicine, and divinity, respectively—in the modem American university. The study of law in America today remains rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Roman and Anglo-American law, as... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
want to sell you one week of insurance for one product. They have thousands of employees, big budgets, and huge infrastructures, so that they can offer more or all of the activities in the customer value chain. Kost: Incumbents that View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
extraordinary robustness and have permitted the survival of otherwise doomed organizations. Evaluating these opportunities as well as thinking through their implications and timing, is vitally important, nonboring work. The new... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
now have to survive on ten percent less for a while. That’s a hardship. I think it’s more manageable than being suddenly out of a job, but it’s all in the eye of the beholder.” FINDING THE RIGHT BALANCE For Honeywell, furloughs were the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
devote a good deal of attention to Grove's childhood, boyhood, and youth because I think an appreciation of the first two decades of his life is essential to understanding his development as a manager. Until 1945, anti-Semitism placed Grove's physical View Details
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
found. He's also faced a series of powerful setbacks. So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
technology has survived and grown even in the midst of an economic downturn and the high-energy activity that was happening in 2021 and 2022, I think just reinforces my confidence that this is a big part of the future of business.”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
secret recipe that has sustained the roughly 700 Japanese companies that are still in business after more than 300 years? How do they survive and adapt? These are the questions Harvard Business School Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: rawpixel] Related Reading It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus 7... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
served or failed us. Most felt that common sense had its place in combination with formal systems of knowledge, research, and planning. As Michael Aschenbach put it, "If you get lost in the woods, it is good to have survival... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
designing a “similar survey to be administered to every group of stakeholder outside of the company organization, to get the feedback on ‘how it feels’ doing business with the company.” Lavinia Rasca said “the answer was given by Andrew Grove in his book, Only the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett