• 01 Feb 1999
• News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

• 23 Aug 2016
• First Look

August 23, 2016

Kotsantonis, Sakis, Christopher Pinney, and George Serafeim Abstract—The authors’ aim in this article is to set the record straight on the financial performance of sustainable investing while also correcting a number of other widespread... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 31 May 2011
• Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

March 11. Tokyo, and indeed much of eastern Japan, is an epicenter of high-tech manufacturing. But dozens of suppliers in other industries are located in the region as well, and the loss of their production may have far-reaching effects in many View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

• 16 Jun 2020
• Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

than recent economic crises and recessions such as the Great Recession of 2008 and the Mideast oil crisis, whose causes were financially driven. The fundamental driver of the pandemic is health and safety concerns and hence customer... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

• January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
• Case

Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg

This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools... View Details

Keywords: General Management; K-12; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Edtech; Education; Information Technology; Management; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; Boston

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Kim, John J-H, and Daniel Goldberg. "Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?" Harvard Business School Case 316-138, January 2016. (Revised November 2018.)

• 14 Jan 2019
• Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

the World Economic Forum, and the next day he’s demanding improved performance from Unilever’s senior executives. In my view, Polman isn’t an enigma at all, but a world statesman who exemplifies all the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

• 08 Feb 2011
• First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Publication:RAND Journal of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 05 Sep 2007
• First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Cases & Course MaterialsAcelero Learning: Building a Culture of Performance Harvard Business School Case 307-048 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307048 Cintas y... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• March 2012
• Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai

The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States

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• 19 Apr 2004
• Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

economic system. But what made the U.S. unique was the scale of American firms that were founded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These massive manufacturing concerns, which produced tremendous numbers of business... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

• 31 Aug 2010
• First Look

First Look: August 31

Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan Publication:Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups Abstract Business groups—collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

systems for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance... View Details