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- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
poking drill holes deep into the earth in the hopes of hearing sounds to indicate that the men were alive. Another worked on how to keep them alive if found, and a third brainstormed solutions for how to extract them from the refuge. The rst team came View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
best practice, its rivals tend to copy it quickly. Best practice competition eventually leads to competitive convergence, with many companies doing the same things in the same ways. Customers end up making decisions based on price,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
business leaders came to us over and over to say, ‘We have a cultural problem and an inability to perform. How can we create a more effective organization?’” Beer says. “We’ve seen this process work.” Getting the ball rolling To start, a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
chypre, and was the first perfumer to sell his wares in elegantly designed glass bottles, rather than in the pharmaceutical bottles used previously. An ambitious believer in globalization, he even sent his energetic mother-in-law to open View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
but at this stage, if you don’t have the confidence and the right people to do things without you, it will be a rough ride. In fact, when founding CEOs don’t learn to step up into their roles and empower their leaders, investors and board... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
scaling up its capabilities to make decisions and solve problems in other areas of the business, such as marketing, store sales, and the supply chain. But when the time was right, this data-analytic approach would help dictate a variety... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
create value and manage risk. Q: Most managers don't have law degrees, so who do they turn to get the legal background they will need to work with legal staff on the issues you identify? Will they need special training? A: I like to think that reading Winning Legally... View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
Upton With those results in hand, the core team decided to roll out the approach across the firm. By the end of 2006, Wipro had 603 lean projects completed or in the works (the company typically had 1,100 projects under way at any one... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
When a company is small, communication among employees is as simple as rolling a desk chair around the room to talk to the president, the admin, or the chief engineer. But as a company grows, communication becomes more difficult. And... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
97 percent from the same time a year earlier; for the fiscal year, net earnings were down 53 percent to $316 million. The Starbucks board was reluctant to send 10,000 partners to New Orleans at a cost of $30 million, but Schultz stuck to his guns. In addition to View Details
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
meeting because...” What would they say? Agenda I believe that if a meeting is important enough to have, it should have a time-boxed agenda and always be followed up with notes and action items (AIs). As the team leader, you should... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
clear line of sight for identifying and challenging the least valuable resources," Baxter continues. All too often, the CEO must opt for across-the-board cuts—even though he knows that this approach penalizes the high-performing units and props View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Harvard Business School Case 514-067 India's Amul: Keeping up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947, eight months before India's independence from British rule, and owned by over three million farmers in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
India. In early 2013, Starbucks, the world's leading coffee chain company, opened its first 11 outlets in India's metropolitan cities with local giant, Tata, and promises of a national roll out. CCD management debated whether there was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
was not—doing. As company leaders rolled out this daring strategy, they also created an organizational structure and culture developed to support a multi-product, vertically integrated enterprise. By the mid 1930s, GM's market share had... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
In the spring of 2005, media outlets from Gizmodo to Good Morning America were buzzing about Clocky, an alarm clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping, forcing its owner to get out of bed to turn it off... View Details