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  • 05 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan & David Thomas
  • 2010
  • Article

We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy

By: Gautam Mukunda
Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
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  • Web

Curriculum - MBA

likely in the life sciences or biotech space. Capstone Overview First Year August Harvard Business School Online CORe Harvard Business School As with all MBA candidates, MS/MBA students take a short test to... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

2019 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership By: Hill, Linda A. Abstract—In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jan 2024
  • Op-Ed

Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

older airplane models at the expense of all-new aircraft. Secondly, in 2001 Condit moved Boeing’s headquarters from its original home in Seattle to Chicago—all to gain $60 million in state and local tax credits over 20 years. With none of its View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Semiconductor; Public Administration
  • May 2010
  • Column

Block-by-Blockbuster Innovation

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Executives often find themselves debating the merits of incremental innovations versus game-changers, but that's a false dichotomy, says HBR columnist Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Even if a company is lucky enough to come up with the next Kindle, Swiffer, or smartphone,... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Product; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • Article

After the Fall: Reintegrating the Corrupt Organization

By: Michael D. Pfarrer, K. A. DeCelles, Ken G. Smith and M. Susan Taylor
We propose a four-stage model of the organizational actions that potentially increase the speed and likelihood that an organization will restore its legitimacy with stakeholders following a transgression. Organizations that work to discover the facts of the... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Reputation; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

would magically know how to bridge the gap between technology and business strategy,” she said. “Knowing how to build out a financial forecast, carry out a discounted cash flow and do all of those financial steps in modeling and View Details
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details

    Case: The Allergan Board Under Fire (A)

    In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of directors received a surprise takeover offer from Valeant Pharmaceuticals in alliance with hedge fund activist Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management. In the unprecedented arrangement between an acquirer and a hedge... View Details
    • Program

    Behavioral Economics—Virtual

    think—and how altering the decision-making context can make an impact on their choices. In this virtual program, you will learn how to design and rigorously test a "choice architecture" that can help your managers make better decisions, create greater value for your... View Details
    • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

    By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
    Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It

    By: Malcolm S. Salter

    Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details

    Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 09 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

    to a well-known and admired model of industrial organization—General Motors. We will also compare the theoretical model to a much-admired high-technology firm, Hewlett-Packard. Finally we will propose a research project that would test... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
    • August 2002 (Revised June 2003)
    • Case

    New Wachovia (A), The

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Jeremy Swinson
    In April 2001, First Union Corp. announced an agreement to merge with Wachovia Corp., a fellow North Carolina-based commercial bank. While the banks were preparing to consummate the merger, SunTrust Banks, Inc. of Atlanta, made a hostile offer for Wachovia, setting in... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Conflict and Resolution; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Atlanta; North Carolina
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    • 30 Mar 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

    authority, “The privacy policy is usually offered gratuitously. It’s not part of the contract and therefore, not enforceable like a contract.” Some had proposed that Facebook change its business model from... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Identity-Based Leader Development

    By: Scott Snook, Herminia Ibarra and Laura Ramo
    Despite the wealth of managerial and scholarly attention paid to leadership development, only recently has a new perspective emerged that explicitly links leadership and identity. Research and theorizing on leadership development have yet to specify the processes that... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Identity; Transition; Transformation; Perspective; Managerial Roles; Business Processes; Personal Development and Career
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    • 03 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 3

    practices in structural units that align with the logic emphasized by the practice: when adopting practices reflecting a market logic, organizations will locate them in mainline business units, such as marketing; conversely, when adopting... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne