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- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
up your mind.” "The computer industry creates more has-beens more quickly than any other. Steve was determined not to be one of them." There are two reasons that only Steve Jobs could have saved Apple in 1997. First, Jobs persuaded Bill Gates to continue supporting... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- June 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global
By: Elie Ofek and Michael Norris
In January of 2017, CJ Entertainment & Media (E&M) proudly announced that it will be holding its first ever KCON in Mexico City just two months later. CJ Group Chairman Jay Lee and Vice Chairwoman Miky Lee are pleased at the progress that KCON, a Korean-oriented music... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Food; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Michael Norris. "CJ E&M: KCON Goes Global." Harvard Business School Case 517-083, June 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
power is a “platform” that can be used to control markets and discourage competition. Apple’s design capability may be remarkable, but its platform—iOS, Mac OS, iPhone, iPad, Macbooks, even Apple TV—is the force behind its control of certain markets for hardware and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
retailer destroyed more jobs in 2005 than it created. Indeed, from low wages to limited healthcare coverage, the company has a number of employee-related issues to tackle, as well as many nonmarket ones. (Wal-Mart announced August 8 an... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
engineering fixes to allow users easier control over sharing information on their Facebook pages. In fact, Zuckerberg reportedly was working with engineers for several days doing just that while the world awaited follow-up to the initial disclosures. Dangers of an open... View Details
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
colleagues or bosses why I regularly took time to meet with him. On this particular morning I was telling Howard about my friend Michelle, whose boss had unexpectedly announced her retirement. Michelle is an extraordinarily creative and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Winners were announced in class the following afternoon. The judges (clockwise from top left): Goldman, Brown, Regis, Kay, Gudmundsdottir, and Jónsdóttir (Photo courtesy of Pauline Brown) With few exceptions, the presentations seemed to... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
servicing old versions of products. Companies tend to announce that they are "focusing on the core" or "seeking higher margin opportunities" when flight is in progress. Sometimes companies will launch diversification... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
just this week, Gap Inc. announced it will shut a fifth of its stores in North America over the next two years. Even in categories where only one retailer now exists—Best Buy in electronics and Barnes & Noble in books—the category... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
original proposed stratospheric valuation, its byzantine corporate structure, its woeful (or nonexistent) corporate governance, and most of all its flamboyant founder, Adam Neumann. So perhaps it was not a surprise when WeWork, given the continuing criticism, View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
lean startup practices needed to be successful in entrepreneurial projects. "In government we announce something and wait to get it perfect. By using more experimental approaches, some public leaders are achieving success by testing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
When Harvard Business School Associate Professor Francesca Gino invites high-powered business leaders to address her class, she often observes an interesting phenomenon. The guest speakers announce that they are just as interested in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Dec 2014
- What Do You Think?
Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?
commitments, makes the numbers, but doesn't share the values." In 1992, Welch made the dramatic announcement at a companywide meeting that four out of the five managers being asked to leave the company had delivered good financial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting value from emerging data-analytics technologies. Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype? Google's announcement in 2008 that it could... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
time its parent company announced $100 million in product donations, including 200,000 face masks to New York City hospitals to help keep healthcare workers safe. Given the prevalence of fake news proliferating in social media, consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
significant? I’m sure they’re feeling it. Gazette: What would be a threat to these businesses? Shih: Inflation and rising labor costs are a real threat to their business model. Gazette: Despite their critics, dollar stores will account for 40 percent of all View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
When Munchery announced in January that it would join the compost heap of food delivery startups, the San Francisco company burned customers, suppliers, and investors that included Oscar-winning actors Jared Leto and Marisa Tomei. In its... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
challenge. For example, LVHM, a French multinational corporation and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, announced it will cease the production of perfumes in some of its factories in order to make hand sanitizer, and Nike stated... View Details