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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

subscription fee customers. By December 2024, TagHive was cash flow positive and planning to scale. Pankaj and his leadership team were considering whether to extend the pilot to all customers and what the effects on other parts of the... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

We’re told that the secret to success is hard work. But the truth is, hard work alone doesn’t always pay off. After all, career advancement isn’t always neatly tied to your skills, effort, or even the quality of your work. Some people... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

difference facilitates performance. Though older children exhibit superior performance on a race-neutral version of the task, their tendency to avoid acknowledging race hinders objective success when race is a relevant category. That... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

the researchers met with Mueller in 2009, he explained that the organizational transformation occurred in three stages: triage (immediately responding to the 9/11 attacks), search (forming a plan to tackle national security without... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • June 2004 (Revised January 2005)
  • Case

Rambus Inc., 2004

By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
Examines the role of technology licensing in strategies for high-technology companies. In the 1990s, Rambus developed a revolutionary memory technology that would improve the ability of DRAMs to keep pace with ever-faster microprocessors. To commercialize the... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Commercialization; Competition; Technology Adoption; Value; Semiconductor Industry
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  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

Family Relationships ; Family Ownership ; Acquisition ; Governance ; Resignation and Termination ; Leadership Style ; Management Succession ; Size ; Negotiation Offer ; Private Ownership ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Trust ;... View Details
  • April 1998
  • Case

Jim Lyons and GenRad

Lyons, currently CEO of Harry Gray Associates, a consulting and investment firm, had just been approached by an executive recruiter representing GenRad, a 78-year-old electronics company headquartered in Concord, MA. The company, which manufactured integrated software... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your... View Details
  • February 2011 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World

By: Herman B. Leonard, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Simon Harrow
How can a company that supplies disaster response and humanitarian agencies best handle the intrinsically unpredictable and highly volatile demand for its products? Utilis is a French supplier of rapid-deploy high-end tent solutions for civilian and military uses (such... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Strategic Planning; Natural Disasters; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; France
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  • April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
  • Case

NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G

By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno
The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and... View Details
Keywords: 5G; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

Chairman & CEO, Ayala Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1981 A.B., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "The ability to find solutions to challenges increases exponentially when you tackle them with a team.... View Details
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term actions; clear communication... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Ceilings, Floors, and Imperfect Calibration Authors:F. Gino, Z. S. Sharek, and D. A. Moore Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research has claimed that people exaggerate probabilities of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

successful convenience foods business to more countries. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511070-PDF-ENG PureCircle David E. Bell and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 510-032 In December 2008, the U.S. Food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth U.S. $5.5 billion but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang and uses it to study succession View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

want to acknowledge the value you have added to the organization and publicly wish you success in your endeavors. It’s important that you ask your boss if you can see and contribute to the announcement before it’s released. Often, the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

look at successful leaders in action to see how they: Develop a vision of the future. Align the organization behind that vision. Motivate people to achieve the vision. Design effective organizations and change them to achieve superior... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

Bill George boasts long and successful executive stints at Honeywell, Litton Industries, and Medtronic—plus, he coined the term “authentic leadership.” Now, he says he and his fellow Baby Boomers need to pass the torch to a new generation... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert