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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
CEO Lee Scott was asked a few years ago about why he thought Wal-Mart could expand successfully overseas, his response was that naysayers had also questioned the company's ability to move successfully from its home state of Arkansas to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Eleanor W., and Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others who are self-employed have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
competitive. That's what CEO Anne Mulcahy did in cutting 28,000 jobs to enable Xerox to be competitive once again. Now she is refocusing Xerox, long known as the plain paper copier company, on the paperless,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
government, which included the closure of schools and offices and strict safety regulations for the reopening phase such as increased distance between tables and seats and capacity reduction. Canteen’s CEO decided to use the time to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
we're doing," says McEvoy. Today, Queen Elizabeth II wears her Burberry trench coat. But so does supermodel Kate Moss. At Waterford Crystal, CEO John G. Foley (HBS ISMP '89) has brought on contemporary designers like Versace and Vera... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman and co-author Boris Groysberg, the Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Wei-Skillern noticed that each unit of Mass Audubon operated quite independently. A new CEO tried to align the units better on a day-to-day basis by instituting a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
on a separate matter involving the China Written Works Copyright Society, which accused Google of failure to inform or pay authors of books it was digitizing. Google issued an apology. My suspicion is there was thought to be a quid pro... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
beloved,” she says. But beloved didn’t pay the bills, and by 2015, after decades of pressure from big chains and the internet, the small, independent store was on the verge of closing. That’s when Brody, a New Yorker who spends her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses-is a recipe for failure, according to the authors. Meanwhile, CEOs spend too much time on managing today's earnings and too little time on... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
you to be where you are today, and it means knowing that you have to do your best every day so that perhaps one day you will come close to paying them back for all that they have done for you. My heritage is both my reminder to always be... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
grow: What types of hiring challenges will I face? Which investors should I try to target at my company's various stages of growth—and what challenges will they introduce? Will I be replaced as CEO at some point, and, if so, will I... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
York Times best-seller list for 27 weeks, he did take on another kind of business adversary, those he saw as laying waste to his beloved Sarasota and to Florida’s environment. In the novel, developers and builders, having recklessly destroyed habitat and View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Linda A. Hill : Named to Inc. 2025 Female Founders 500 List. 2024 Summer R. Jackson : Runner-up for the 2024 Administrative Science Quarterly Dissertation... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
observe things, then question why. If you want to be an innovative person, when you see things, you have to pay attention and then wonder why. A good illustration of observing and questioning is Scott Cook (MBA 1976) and QuickBooks. By... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
determine what the telling of these stories can teach us about how we tell our own. CASE STUDY Linking Purpose to Profits: Satya Nadella at Microsoft Professor Krishna Palepu No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info When Satya Nadella took over as... View Details
- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
severance package of the CEO." To the extent possible, these actions would presumably be carried out quietly. While maintaining that the CEO should go, others recommended a more quiet approach, neither imposing a firing for cause nor... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett