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  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

Summing Up Who Will Save Us From Our Work Habits? We have a problem in the workplace. Some of it is being forced upon us by forces in society. Some of it is of our own making. But we face increasing challenges in managing our work time... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Amitabh Chandra

    Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

    • 05 Oct 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

    scenario is. The fact is that the US appears to have settled into a 2 percent growth rate at most, even in a recovery where higher rates of growth might be expected. An important examination of long-term US growth rates by a respected... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Blog Post

    3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando

    culture. There are different avenues where the Management Board sits in front of employees to answer any questions that might concern individuals (e.g., monthly Ask.Us.Anything open Q&A). Today, I would like to highlight the presentation that View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • December 2021
    • Case

    Bunge: Building a Sustainable Future?

    By: Forest Reinhardt, David E. Bell, Pedro Levindo and Ruth Costas
    Bunge, one of the world’s leading agribusiness traders and processors, strives to comply with its commitment to having a deforestation-free value chain by 2025 while it considers potential new business growth areas. After a complex turnaround, which involved one of the... View Details
    Keywords: Deforestation; Value Chain; Agribusiness; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 01 Jan 2003
    • News

    • 2001
    • Working Paper

    Contextuality Within Activity Systems

    By: Michael E. Porter and Nicolaj Siggelkow
    Research on the interactions among activities in firms and the extent to which these interactions help create and sustain competitive advantage has rapidly expanded in recent years. In this research, the two most common approaches have been the complementarity... View Details
    Keywords: Value Chain; Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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    • 07 Apr 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

    businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a... View Details
    Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
    • June 2002
    • Case

    "One Country, Two Systems"? Italy and the Mezzogiorno (B)

    By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
    In 1992, a corruption investigation and two assassinations created a crisis that prompted the Italian government to dispatch 7,000 troops to Sicily to "retake the island" from the Mafia. This case examines the crisis and the efforts of both the Italian state and the... View Details
    Keywords: History; National Security; Crime and Corruption; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Italy
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    • 27 Apr 2015
    • News

    HBS “Topping Off” of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center

    • 16 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Marketing Wine to the World

    program, I had the opportunity to write a new case about Robert Mondavi. As I conducted the research for the case, I became more fascinated with the changes taking place in the industry globally, as well as the marked differences between... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
    • 07 Jan 2013
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

    says. Sundance Institute. Founder Robert Redford's contribution in legitimizing indie films is akin to what James Beard did for American food. Sundance made indies and the different stories depicted in the genre more acceptable View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
    • April 2013
    • Teaching Plan

    Barclays and the LIBOR Scandal

    By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
    In the summer of 2012, Barclays plc, one of the largest banks in the world, agreed to settle with authorities and acknowledged that the firm had manipulated LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate)—a benchmark reference rate that was fundamental to the operation of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Systems; Financial Services; Corruption; Regulation; General Management; Management; Leadership; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Culture; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 14 May 2015
    • News

    A senseless subsidy

    • 20 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

    written by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2018: Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality While corporate tax cuts increase... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Feb 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

    witnessed by enrollments. The issue arises again with a seeming upsurge of interest in implementation. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton describe what they call this "knowing-doing gap" in their... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 19 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

    offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes phoned convicted felon Bernie... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

    inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 05 Aug 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

    something new and different is worthless." Ron Kurtz noted that (customers) "are better at reacting to things and defining their 'problems' that they would like to see resolved or alleviated." Some commented on the limits of formalized marketing research. As View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology
    • June 2012
    • Article

    Managing Risks: A New Framework

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
    Risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Corporate Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Framework
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