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  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

companies make mistakes that derail and even destroy them. How can companies sustain commitment and performance in this environment? A: Clearly the 2008-2009 economic crisis has some macroeconomic causes.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

    Ryan W. Buell

    Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details

    Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking
    • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
    • Case

    Transformation at ING (A): Agile

    By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
    In December 2017, Vincent van den Boogert, CEO of ING in the Netherlands, was reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change; Organizational Management; Workforce; Agile; Change Management; Leadership; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banking Industry
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      Jill J. Avery

      Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

      Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage
      • 23 Feb 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 23

      development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously determined political instability in... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 2018
      • Chapter

      Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western economies. The chapter argues that during the nineteenth century British merchant houses established business groups with... View Details
      Keywords: Business Groups; Conglomerates; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Organizations; Business Conglomerates; United Kingdom
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      • 21 Aug 2023
      • Book

      You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

      of staying the course, this generation is increasingly looking to seize happiness wherever they can, because nothing is guaranteed. “Millennials are saying: Hold up. The rug keeps getting pulled out from under us. We think we’re finally... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin

        Reinventing State Capitalism

        In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

        • 5 Feb 2013
        • Conference Presentation

        Financing Entrepreneurial Growth

        By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek

        Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.

        The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details

        Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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        Authentic Leader Development

        Summary Companies need to be developing leaders who exhibit high standards of integrity, take responsibility for their actions, and make decisions based on enduring principles rather than short-term expedience. The best leaders are... View Details
        • September 2011
        • Article

        Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality

        By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
        We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
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        • 17 Jul 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

        looking to boost morale. “People are quitting, and companies are noticing that it’s harder to get people to join the company and hold on to them, so they’re going back to the... View Details
        Keywords: by Avery Forman

          John A. Quelch

          John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
          • 31 Jul 2020
          • Blog Post

          Building a DTC Brand Through COVID

          banking covering apparel companies and was in corporate strategy at a large apparel company, but nothing can really prep you for entrepreneurship. I knew what to do, but not necessarily how to do it. At HBS,... View Details
          • Web

          Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

          hold in most organizations. Despite happy talk, most people would rather do anything but fail. Failure, it seems, is fine in theory, and fine for other people, but difficult to accept for ourselves. Moreover, our efforts to learn from... View Details
          • 02 Nov 2009
          • Research & Ideas

          Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

          generally in organizations with excess CEO pay, suggesting that some companies acted in advance of the annual meeting to avoid a confrontation with shareholders. These findings suggest that say-on-pay legislation can be a useful tool for... View Details
          Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
          • 12 Jun 2012
          • First Look

          First Look: June 12

          external risks, companies can call on tools such as war gaming and scenario analysis. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/managing-risks-a-new-framework/ar/1   Working PapersDid Bank Distress Stifle... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • February 1999
          • Case

          Volant Skis

          By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
          Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"... View Details
          Keywords: Change Management; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Quality; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation
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          • 2021
          • Working Paper

          The Changing Role of Business in Society

          By: Michael E. Porter
          Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the... View Details
          Keywords: Politics; Shared Value; Social Progress Index; Competitiveness; Walmart; BlackRock; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG; Transparency; Campaign Contributions; Campaign Finance; Lobbying; Revolving Door; Political Ideology; Political Parties; Political Partisanship; Government And Business; Government Innovation; Elections; Democracy; Capitalism; Stakeholder Capitalism; Shareholder Engagement; Competition; Strategy; Government and Politics; Society; Social Issues; Human Needs; Wealth and Poverty; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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          • 2014
          • Case

          Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant: Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Culture

          By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo
          Meizhou Dongpo is a large catering group in China. On June 6, 1996, the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant was opened in Beijing. The enterprise entered the stage of rapid development in 2000, and set up Beijing Meizhou Restaurant Management Co., Ltd. In June 2003 the... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; National Culture; China; Restaurants; China
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