Strategic Initiatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Pursuing an Interest in Nonprofits at HBS

leadership team and staff across the organization on a strategic project to review their extensive teaching and training programming and developed an analytical framework and recommendations. The IP was a wonderful learning opportunity... View Details

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

home to Detroit.” The Kresge Foundation offered both, and it had a history of hiring Leadership Fellows in the past. “Their scope of work, especially in Detroit, was aligned with my interests. I knew it would be quite strategic for me,... View Details

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

them—potentially, at least—a strategic edge that private funds lack. These differences—good and bad—are illustrated by the case of Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The case, write Gompers and Lerner, "highlights the fact... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

cannot change culture just by making speeches and waving a wand. You need concrete changes in rewards, job assignments, and other measurements.” A contrasting perspective is that culture—shared views of “how we do things around here”--is an important enabler of changes... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2012
News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

Initiative to apply innovative business practices to drive high-impact social change. 1994 Building on his earlier work, Michael Jensen advances “agency theory,” the underpinning for compensating executives with stock and stock options.... View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

writes for the Atlantic . Sarah Kaplan Sarah Kaplan is Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE), and Professor of Strategic Management, at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of... View Details

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

level of the proprietary Xerox system—at one-fifth the cost. 42 This price performance breakthrough gave Xerox a strategic benefit, reducing the costs of its high-end printers. Subsequently, in January 1991, one and a half years after AWP... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

entrepreneur-in-residence Henry McCance (MBA '66) focus on events surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her "baby" to a new CEO. "In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial support for your business. The... View Details

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations - Blog: RGE Report

An example, in which a large organization reframed the value proposition for diversity, is the case of the FTSE 100. The boards of these companies were initially skeptical of changing their recruitment process to include more gender... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two different dates to accommodate a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

involving almost everyone in the company. How difficult has it been for organizations to adopt this all-in approach? A: Service profit chain concepts are deceptively simple. They require an integrated set of management initiatives to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Andrew Goldin

says. "And the depth of the Social Enterprise Initiative – the courses it supports, the trips and extracurricular activities – really drew me in. At HBS, social enterprise is a true priority – not just a mission statement on a web... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

regional strategy could take many years. The obvious implication is that strategic initiatives can be pursued at the regional level only if some decision rights are reallocated—whether from the local or... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the development of the university as a whole, building up programs in interdisciplinarity and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

led by Peter Barrett, PhD, faculty chair, and an advisory board of seasoned business and biotechnology leaders who serve as one-on-one mentors and provide strategic direction during the fellows' program year. “Since joining the Blavatnik... View Details

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

demonstrate the catalytic role of committed state elites, who introduced incremental reforms over three decades. These officials operated beneath the political radar, layering small-scale initiatives on top of the mainstream school... View Details