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  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: iStockphoto/LL28] What's the best management advice you've heard? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Five Ways To Keep Connected By David Fubini... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • January 2024
  • Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Strategic Planning; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Retail Industry; United States; Arizona
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DENIAL reviews

By: Richard S. Tedlow

"A wake-up call to be sure that we dont allow ourselves to confuse our maps with the actual territory."

strategy+business "2010 Best Business Books," Winter 2010

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  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

ways to increase their performance. Meanwhile a globally networked team of manufacturing experts led by Marty Cole, the case protagonist, is trying to spread best practice from other sites around the globe.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School professors Sunil Gupta and Tom Steenburgh surveyed the academic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

students that Madoff was once best known for pioneering the controversial but legal practice of payment for order flow, in which he would pay brokerage firms a couple of cents per share to send orders... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • Web

Leadership Initiative - Leadership

Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is the co-author of Collective Genius: The Art and View Details
  • February 2014 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams

By: Tatiana Sandino
Indian cell phone retailer Go Mobile had implemented high-powered incentives to motivate its store employees to behave as owners and provide exceptional service. As the company scaled up, it faced multiple challenges in building a layer of district managers that were... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Telecommunications Industry; India
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  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

kinds, it has been clear that every business able to improve governance reaped lasting benefits. If you are in a family enterprise, you need to learn the basics of governance and apply the best practices... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

companies. This remedy is best observed in formerly public companies that—aided by professional buyout firms—have been taken private and armed with active directors who pursue commonsense governance View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

conclusions resulting from a reading of responses to this month's column. In defense of strategic planning, Greg Martin said, "Same story, different day: in times of change it is practically irresistible to not throw the baby out... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

Practice at HBS who authored the case study with HBS researcher Shweta Bagai. Businesses need to “understand how it is that they’re doing what they’re doing so that they can incorporate the power of algorithmic technologies into their... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

practices creating a learning and innovative organization; and tracking results in terms of the "four Rs" of retention, referrals, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. It shows "the culture cycle" at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

a lot of really important questions that are hard,” Cole says. “Quite frankly, they may not even be answered in the venture capitalist space. Questions like ‘what are best practices for impact investing?’... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni

putting your best foot forward. Importance of Social Networks Social networks have given us the ability to connect with almost anyone in the blink of an eye, making it much easier to expand, nurture and maintain our relationships. Learn... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

future, says Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and a co-head of the project. Fuller likens the shifting job demands to a melting ice floe. “What’s left are the things that are hard to automate,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

firms in our sample, making it difficult to control for these effects across economies. Practical implications—Government involvement in state-owned enterprises may be contributing to a divergence in the pattern of business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2005
  • Case

Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock
Genius? That is not what they were calling Bill Belichick in Cleveland. Why? Four losing seasons in five years. Fans hurled trash and insults. The media resented him. Ownership abandoned him. Players quit on him. Very different from the three Super Bowls in five years... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Sports; Sports Industry; United States
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  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

recognizes that communication with and motivation of an organization's managers, employees, and partners is extremely difficult. What this means in practice is that if we tell all participants in an organization that its sole purpose is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

an opportunity to hear firsthand the challenges companies face in their implementation, and share best practices and learnings from their initial efforts. OneTen Summit Highlights Exhibition at Baker Library... View Details