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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Another CEO... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
structure, and as frontline employees become more pivotally involved in value-creating work, lateral and bottom-up communication comes to be no less important than top-down communication. Third, there is global change. As workforces... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
advertising. “Government is a giant customer. They buy a lot of stuff” Harvard Business School professor Mitchell Weiss explores this strategy pivot in a new case on Bigbelly, co-written with case researcher Christine Snively, that looks... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
Many distinctive aspects of the textile and apparel industries present challenges to implementing electronic commerce. First, and perhaps most important, is the difficulty of accurately characterizing the product online. Many of the characteristics of a garment that... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
company has decided to pivot from operating biomass gasification plants towards developing solar microgrids in India and East Africa. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Husk-Power/an/815023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
at the last minute kind of playing with details. Maybe you tend to say “yes” a little bit too easily and you need to make “no” more of your default. And as you come to those insights, I want you now to pivot to your next week’s calendar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
along the way, it was a pivot in my relationship with John McArthur, a finance professor at the time, that caused me to feel—to this day—very positive about my entire HBS experience. As one example, Professor McArthur assumed a possibly... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
innovator. In this playbook, Schultz makes the case for not raising outside money, finding mentors, and doing every job before hiring others and also discusses how to pivot when things go wrong and why failure is an outdated concept. What... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2011 Address | About
our only alum to play a pivotal role in the crisis; Jamie Dimon, who ’ s here today as well for his daughter Julia ’ s graduation, played an equally instrumental role at JP Morgan Chase. But back to Rob. On this particular day, Rob wasn ’... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the organizational impact of a pivot as well as the role of VCs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we pivoted and developed some of... View Details
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
project was the capstone project, and I worked with Birchbox (an HBS founded company!) on analyzing their customer churn. Jay Kim (MBA 2020) : I was paired with a beverage start-up based in Miami and helped the company make the pivot from... View Details
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
financing remains a pivotal challenge for entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Traditional funding avenues, such as venture capital and angel investors, may be limited, prompting entrepreneurs to explore alternative financing models. We... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
its competition and into financial trouble. The case ends with a pivotal vote by shareholders on whether to sell this family company. Clarks (B) summarizes the results of the shareholders vote described in the (A) case. And, Clarks (C)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
hypotheses. And, again, there are other benefits. This stage of an ICP often leads to faster decision-making and pivots in a venture where founders and others have strong entrenched opinions about why things have or have not worked.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
the Beatles, Thomas Alva Edison, Michael Jordan, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the founders of Infosys, author Amish, and others have used rejections as a pivot to swing their careers and businesses around. Parameswaran brings his decades of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Commencement 2018 Address | About
water. Now picture Jim—a one-time NBA player who realized that he risked spending more time on the bench than on the floor. An equally good example of being enterprising, he pivoted to an academic career and became the first African... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth and faced several intriguing options. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne