Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (910) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (910) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 27 of 910 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche women's initiative changed the workplace culture at the firm, solved retention problems, and brought external benefits. Now a new CEO must decide how to take this a step further as competition for talent was even stronger, young people had different... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
Related
  • September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
Related
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

difficulty in obtaining further positive results for the class of solvable one-sided assignment problems in line with Sasaki's (1995) characterizations of the core for two-sided assignment problems. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

perhaps prefer, the nearby independent. "There's a delicate balance between the synergies [two combatants] can generate on one hand and too much competition on the other," says Joan E. Primo, a principal of real estate and retail consultants The View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

  Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and agility required repeatedly to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical literature finds mixed evidence on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1998 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

Lockheed Martin IMS: Making a Contribution and a Profit

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Courtney Purrington
Examines Lockheed Martin's attempt to move from its traditional reliance on defense/aerospace contracts into providing outsourced government services in the social sector. The protagonist reflects on the past 24 years of rapid growth in the company and the myriad... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partners and Partnerships; Diversification; Performance Effectiveness; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Welfare; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Privatization; Strategic Planning; United States
Related
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

also—and crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

countries, the conversation has to shift from talking about whether diversity affects performance to talking about the conditions under which you'd expect diversity to have a positive effect on performance." This article is part of a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking selling investments with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

context of race within today's dynamic and diverse organizations. First, we delineate several important reasons why it is critical to discuss mentoring and race. We explore how race has been positioned within the literature to provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

innovation and technology at the top of their lists, but it’s also not something that they do well,” concludes Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. The two findings, adds Cheng, “go hand in hand. If they don’t see innovation as a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

shareholders? A: CEOs perceive integrative relationships as strategic alliances and investments that generate significant benefits to the companies. Those benefits vary from case to case but encompass superior capacity to attract,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • April 2002
  • Background Note

Local Institutions and Global Strategy

By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning
Related
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

advance, and sustain Intel's prominent position in the marketplace. What I'm advocating is an expanded view of R&D, blending the external with the internal —Henry Chesbrough The Intels of the world notwithstanding, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 27 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

machines that included information about the product’s name, price, description, and consumer ranking. Two of the 10 products included in their product information pages a strategic text string, a sequence of letters and numbers produced... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web