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30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

if someone has trouble ‘fitting in.’ Moreover, the people whose job it is to acculturate members of marginalized groups into these dominant group expectations are also finding it challenging. Building productive relationships across... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

idea the dominant instinctive choice. Faculty Books The Treasure You Seek: A Guide to Developing and Leveraging Your Leadership Capital By Archie L. Jones, Jr., Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Forbes Books Leadership is not about... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

Summing Up What is the right mix between intuition and analysis? Several clear themes characterized responses to this month's column. Dominant among these was that the best way to reach a decision depends on a number of factors, including... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

when a better price can be found online. The change in shopping habits will only speed up as the younger generation becomes a dominant force in retail shopping. These consumers are increasingly comfortable buying online in categories that... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

decade head start in nylon, potentially dominating the market for year.8 These first two sections have dealt with inadvertent failures. If a firm can identify and analyze such failures, and then learn from them, it may be able to retrieve... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

their families' dynastic businesses: She was able to act, she says, "because I was a family member and not worried about getting fired." India is still dominated by family-run businesses, representing 85 percent of the country's... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

2018
Chapter

New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

happen, I was worried of losing my job, as many did. Nevertheless, I stayed positive, and prayed for a better and healthier year. I am blessed to be part of such a great community as Harvard Business School. Shelane Etchison Harvard MPP/MBA Student, Class of 2021 Men... View Details

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

talking about academic institutions of higher education.” Even though the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) stresses the amateur nature of intercollegiate sports, college programs have grown into a multibillion-dollar industry. Chung focused on the two... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta empirically assesses if friends indeed influence purchases. The answer: It depends. The End of Chimerica For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

prices, it would not have benefited nearly as much," Hagiu says. "When Apple came in with its iPod, it was the only option. The music companies didn't anticipate that iTunes would become a dominant platform. They were in a weaker... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

for entrepreneurs and startups. The authors discuss issues of power and of managing privacy, fairness, and public trust. Martha Lagace: What trends are you seeing around platforms? David Yoffie: The first question one must ask is: Are platforms the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

the plan is deemed “fair and equitable.” Chapter 11 can therefore dominate out of court restructuring when creditors are more numerous, more heterogeneous, or motivated by different goals. This is true for any type of debt, not only debt... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

which continues to dominate the market. "Ted had an intense desire for people to think, capital 'T' think," observes Berolzheimer. "He was tough on students who didn't use their imagination, and for that reason I didn't... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

dominated by traders, who believe business school is a waste of time." According to a senior manager at a leading investment bank: The investment banking industry needs to recruit more technically competent people than it did in the past... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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