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  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

that can be kept fresh for generic, not specific, demands on various functions of the organization (such as 100 percent increases or decreases in short-term demand)? THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

and executive management team is alike; every unhappy board and executive management team is unhappy in its own special way. In high-performing SMDOs, the board and executive View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Prices in the United States rose at the fastest pace in four decades in January, adding pressure to the Federal... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • April 2002
  • Case

Ocular

By: Paul A. Gompers, Gregor M. Andrade and Jonathan Man
Concerns the decision of Ed Kennedy, co-founder of Ocular Networks, as he decides what financing strategy his firm should take. The venture capital and public markets for telecommunications start-ups had dried up and Kennedy must decide whether to cut costs and raise... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Decisions; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

diverse tasks, global travel, and independence. It was a great ride! The lesson I learned is that your work ethic and luck both count, since you can’t always know how to pick a winning horse when you’re green. —Marki Ware (MBA 1975) The View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

large economies for the 2001 to 2005 period. We investigate reasons why Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach—We collect data on the number of business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

Negotiators' efforts to advance their sides' interests almost always go hand in hand with management of conflict, both between the sides and within them. Often, negotiators or those they represent are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

learn different areas of the business within a smaller company in her corporate strategy role. Several years later, when Cole Haan was put up for sale, Leahy was saddened to leave the Nike family, yet... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

identity. There are numerous historical and current examples of companies forced to face the external shocks of disruptive innovators or shifts in consumer demand. Raffaelli mentions that many Swiss... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • May 2025
  • Supplement

On (B): The Cyclon Spins On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader and Karen Elterman
A follow-up to the On case (723-430), this short case explores how the performance athletic shoe company On expanded its Cyclon subscription and recycling program through 2024, adding two new shoe models to the subscription and a one-time-purchase recyclable T-shirt. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; China; Europe; Germany; Japan; Switzerland; United States
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  • October 1994 (Revised April 1996)
  • Case

Patricia Ostrander

By: Nancy F. Koehn, Donald J. Edwards and Antonio F. Weiss
Analyzes the career of former money manager Patricia Ostrander. Focuses on Ostrander's purchase of stock warrants issued in connection with the 1985 leveraged buyout of Storer Communications and on her later indictment and conviction for accepting unlawful... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Ethics; Capital Markets; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Simon's notion of bounded rationality: how managers may sometimes make suboptimal choices because of their limited ability to access or process information. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2024
  • Case

Freelancer, Ltd.

By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Labor Markets; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Change Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Employment; Global Range; Employment Industry
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  • December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain
Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options including whether his company could avoid a forced marriage and what steps Goldman Sachs should take to try to restore confidence in financial services companies. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Commercial Banking; Investment Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Business Strategy; Banking Industry
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  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

disruption, well, disrupted. At Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, our most popular stories about HBS faculty research have always been those that help readers become better managers and outstanding... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July–August 2012
  • Article

What Good Are Shareholders?

By: Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch
The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate governance in the U.S., and the relationship between companies' shareholders and managers, as of 2012. It recounts the shift beginning in the 1970s toward shareholders claiming an increasing amount of... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Interdepartmental coordination doesn't tend to happen organically. It needs some intervention to create collaborative... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

balance of trade in the 1960s, and the devaluation of the U.S. dollar and the end of its convertibility into gold in 1971, provided symbolic signs of the ending of an era. There remained many restrictions on the flow of capital, trade, and people across borders.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • Web

Baker Library Services - Alumni

Finding industry overviews and company profiles Gathering articles on trends on a specific industry, topic or subject Identifying biographical information to support networking Remote Services HBS alumni... View Details