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  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

toppled—in fact, he calls it "one of the most amazing innovations of the twentieth century." Instead, he wants executives to consider how their own companies formed and developed at a young age. "All organizations start with a structure... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

Internet—ad serving. The firm sells ad space on the Web sites it represents and has invested heavily in developing technology to deliver targeted ads to these sites, with the simple goal of "making... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational technology development... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

concerns). They can be countered by “power antidotes,” humility and empathy, that lead to achieving goals in responsible ways. Power antidotes support such things as diversity, inclusion, “voice” for everyone, psychological safety,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

address concerns, and ultimately get everyone back on the same track to achieve team goals. Team leaders should focus their relaunch in four key areas. Revisit your shared purpose. A relaunch ensures that every team member understands and buys into the clear and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

your vision but also at the same time listening to what employees have to say," Groysberg says. Talk, Inc. highlights the case of the Indian company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., which at the turn of the twenty-first century launched an effort to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

to the specific content of their cultures, shaping them to inculcate specific behaviors relevant to strategic execution. Eager to support goals like innovation, quality, growth, and excellence in customer service, companies like Southwest... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

tailor-made to the needs of each country's political, social, and economic priorities. Supplements the case "Nestlé's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

of similar backgrounds. Perhaps they were also responding to perceived “implicit quotas,” an organization’s informal goal to promote people from certain groups. However, neither of those reasons proved as powerful as the simple notion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

optimization problems, or Internet applications where the goal is to find an acceptably good solution in a short amount of time, when a deterministic approach might be less fruitful or impractical. We aspire for students to recognize that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees   The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

stable mechanism is Pareto-optimal if and only if it prevents unravelling. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-068.pdf Cases & Course Materials Amazon Web Services Harvard Business School Case 609-048 Considers the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

Coach K: A Matter of the Heart

By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey
Successful college basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski faces the decision whether to accept a lucrative offer to coach a professional basketball team or continue to coach at Duke University. Provides a context for discussing various styles of power, influence, and... View Details
Keywords: Power and Influence; Strategic Planning; Decisions; Personal Development and Career; Interpersonal Communication; Management Teams; Goals and Objectives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sports Industry; North Carolina
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  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

greater openness in our private and public innovation systems have particularly urged for more open disclosure and granting of access to intermediate works-early results, algorithms, materials, data and techniques-with the goals of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

consultancies and accounting firms already do this by putting “cohorts” of new employees on similar professional development tracks, with shared workshops, activities, and milestones designed to strengthen their connection. “People are... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • February 1985
  • Case

Business Research Corp. (B)

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs more capital to finance continued development of the market for a full-text database comprised of Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Finance; Capital Structure; Capital; Goals and Objectives; Conflict of Interests; Business Plan; Financing and Loans; Ethics
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  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

agreed to manufacture the laptop. On the technological front, OLPC tackled puzzles such as creating a product both useful and fun for children of primary school age. (See CloseUp below). But despite its visionary goals and widespread... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

developed world.” Brown’s 'special sauce' Four-to-six-member teams manage the firm’s main investment funds, each with its own strategy. All members act as managers and analysts. They research leads, evaluate potential investment ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107047 Chongqing Tiandi Harvard Business School Case 207-019 In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by the Deputy Mayor of Chongqing,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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