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- 2011
- Book
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success
By: Thomas J. DeLong
Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among us are anxious. In response, we're hunkering down, blocking ourselves from new challenges. This response hurts us and our organizations, but we fear making ourselves even more vulnerable... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Attitudes; Behavior
DeLong, Thomas J. Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- August 2020
- Case
Gerald Chertavian
By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
Gerald Chertavian (HBS 1992) finds himself at a personal crossroads. It is 1999--the height of the dot com-bubble--and Chertavian and his business partners have just sold their Internet-based business for $83 million. His share of the sale’s proceeds means that he has... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- HBS Seminar
Emily Truelove, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Web
Lifelong Learning - Alumni
Social Impact Women in Business 12 May 2025 HBS Alumni News Building in the Age of AI: Timeless Methods, Timely Tools Presenter: HBS Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Bussgang 296 01 Jun 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Redefining How Businesses Operate... View Details
- 2016
- Book
Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17
By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction... View Details
Greenstein, Shane, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, eds. Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer
What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details
Adams, Renée, Matti Keloharju, and Samuli Knüpfer. "Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-044, October 2015.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurredover more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Framework; Service Operations; Decisions; Relationships; Price; Diversification; Geography; Cost; Advertising Industry; United States
Arzaghi, Mohammad, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk. "Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14345, September 2008.
P.F. Chang's
Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang's beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed "nonessential" owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
aimed at increasing female labor force participation to compensate for Japan's aging population, reforms of the electric power sector directed at reducing electricity costs, and efforts designed to promote the "health and longevity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 1998
- Article
An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises
By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar
We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Economic Reform; Efficiency Analysis; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Microeconomics; State Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; India
Ahuja, Gautam, and Sumit K. Majumdar. "An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises." Journal of Productivity Analysis 9, no. 2 (March 1998): 113–132.
- 26 Mar 2024
- HBS Seminar
Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Harvard Business School Case on Wikipedia: Wikipedia (A)

On August 24, 2006, the "Enterprise 2.0" entry in the Web-based encyclopedia... View Details
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
off-we made it all the way to the finals of the big tournament. But then I learned that the championship game was scheduled to be played on a Sunday. This was a problem. At age sixteen, I had made a personal commitment to God that I would... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711417-PDF-ENG Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall, and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Note 811-001 PIavix, one of the world's best... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High 1900 19 Model T Plastic Safety razor Widespread use of steam... View Details
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Managing the Future of Work
illnesses or aging parents. Wellthy's growth remained slow until she piloted a B2B product. Jurist-Rosner wondered whether Wellthy should fully pivot from B2C to B2B, how fast she should ramp up the recruitment of care coordinators, and... View Details
- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
Ultimately, individuals and organizations should focus on upskilling and scaling to make the most of new technologies. Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration and the coauthor of the Digital Mindset: What it Really Takes to Thrive in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2023
- Op-Ed
The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?
In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
- Web
South Asia - Global
dinner. NOVEMBER 2024 EVENT Reskilling in the Age of AI with Prof. Raffaella Sadun HBS Professor Raffaella Sadun conducted a virtual "Reskilling in the Age of AI" session on November 26, 2024, jointly hosted... View Details
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman