Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (1,996) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (1,996) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 39 of 1,996 Results →
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

the General Management Program at HBS. In advising global firms, Thomke has seen that in many cases, a company’s biggest obstacle to success doesn’t necessarily come from competitors, the economy, or other outside forces, but can actually... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

services, others deliver complete solutions to their customer, and still others innovate with high-technology products. About the only common element all these diverse successful strategy implementers have in common is exceptional and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

don’t like jobs where you just think,” says Tisch. “My whole career has been doing, with thinking behind it. I couldn’t do just a thinking job.” Tisch could certainly have chosen an easier path. If her last name seems familiar, that is because her father, James Tisch,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

of our clients who saw how we managed to overcome the crisis.” —Antonio Madero, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Sanluis Corporation (a leading Mexico-based automotive parts maker) Silverthorne: Was this focus on reputation development pushed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P＆G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry
Related
  • 07 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

firms appoint a CEO who shares their success with others, the researchers found, inclusiveness of the entire executive team increases the following year. “In the long run, trying to think about what kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

“It’s focused on a segment—and not an insignificant one—that is a big driver of the economy.” Related Reading: Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success Five Steps to Better Family NegotiationsFamily View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

interconnected world, leveraging Home Depot's brick-and-mortar success in the new environment, and continuing to build and sustain lasting emotional connections with customers. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

strategies for launching them for 10 years. In this article he draws on research on dozens of platform sites and products to offer a framework for building a successful platform business. It involves asking five basic questions: (1) Can I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Courses MOC Affiliate Network MOC Course at Harvard The New CEO Workshop MOC Affiliate Network MOC Affiliate Network The MOC... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

successful entrepreneurs discussed the role beliefs and values play in keeping grounded among the turbulence and long hours that surround new ventures. Jim Sharpe (HBS MBA '76) , CEO of Extrusion... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

about the impact of microfinance.” Bulletin: One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret that? Ben Roth: One metric of success is... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Abstract To what extent do peers affect our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Pet Project

Illustration by Shane Cluskey Like pet owners everywhere, Katie Spies (MBA 2019) would do anything for her dog. In 2014, when her Italian greyhound, George, started experiencing seizures and other health problems that didn’t respond to medications, the vet recommended... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-438 The Transformation of NCR During his tenure as CEO since 2005, Bill Nuti... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

professor Bower found that companies performed better when they appointed insiders to the job of CEO. CEO succession is a process taking many years, not an event that takes place shortly before a transition.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

of economic development that lifts all boats isn’t quite happening—yet. The next wave of change that needs to take place in Chattanooga isn’t as straightforward as cleaning up the city’s air or developing its waterfront, impressive and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Action Plan: Life Study

CEO of the revived RKO Pictures. In that sense, Hartley already had extensive experience with creative expression when he came to his next career move. Of his painting process, Hartley says, “I start with the colors, which leads to a more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

2016 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Salter Reynolds Abstract—Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne