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  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

in Book Publishing Book publishing is changing before our very eyes, even if the industry itself is fighting the transition with every comma it can muster. Harvard Business School professor Peter Olson, former CEO of Random House, wonders... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

In this excerpt taken from the chapter entitled "From Trade to Investment," HBS visiting professor Geoffrey Jones traces the transition of the British trading companies from purely trading companies in the 1870s to... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 04 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

write in the working paper. “Not only is this unfair, it is inefficient; the economy is missing out on women who would make great managers.” Male employees with male managers earn 13 percent more In studying job assignments and manager View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

is considerable variation across industries. Remote work is much more common in industries with better educated and better paid workers. Respondents in better educated and higher paid industries have also observed less productivity loss from the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

In about four weeks, the bank had put in place VPN access for 9,000 people and provided a secure customer relationship app for sales and service people. This transition was not just technological; the bank also introduced many new HR... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • January 15, 2019
  • Article

Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union
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  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

In the corporate world, all leadership transitions create uncertainty, so leaders need to empower team members to help them sense they can make a difference. In the end, the team will do the work (on the pitch), not the manager. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • 02 May 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

source of criticism from those preferring research based on large data bases of quantitative information and advanced analytic techniques. "It can be a living hell for some distinguished CEOs returning to the School thinking that they can begin the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

things’.” Those working remotely expressed their enthusiasm for it. To the extent it fosters loyalty, it may enhance a culture. Betsy Dickson commented on her move to a remote region this way: “ my employer allowed me to transition to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

rather reveal a pattern of incremental investments approved individually. Although Firestone encountered some production glitches in refining the new process, overall the transition from bias to belted bias tires proceeded smoothly.10... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • 19 Mar 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

are in English, they believe they'll never be as sophisticated, as influential, or as articulate as they are in their native language." Interestingly, Neeley found the French-to-English-only transition was most difficult for workers... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Strategy; Macroeconomics; State Capitalism; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Economics; Energy Industry; Retail Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; China; Africa; Dubai; Pakistan; India; Brazil; Russia; Cuba; Argentina
  • 18 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
  • 29 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

so interested in strategy and the intricacies of running a business? A: Grove made the transition from technologist to technologist/manager because he had no choice. When Intel was founded in July of 1968, he was employee number three.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 22 Feb 2021
  • Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

difficult transitions that affect sales training and hiring criteria. Senz: You discuss sales productivity as a social responsibility for firms. Can you explain what you mean? Cespedes: Especially in services-dominated economies like the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • March 2015
  • Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

most vital of all agile initiatives. Senior executives learn to manage the transition as an agile team. They view it as a continuous improvement program, not as a project with predictable end points or fixed completion dates. They realize... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 02 Aug 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

that millennials will come to appreciate their predecessors over time, Fred Olande commented, " life is just a circle and we all transit from one level to another ." And there were some worries as well. Mike Flanagan fears that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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