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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
step should be to consult a lawyer and an accountant to understand their legal obligations and how to sequence payments to parties owed money. After that, they should formulate a View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
Summing Up Three themes appear to characterize many of the responses to this month's column: (1) leadership talent is portable, (2) the reasons that we chase stars are traceable to human nature, and (3)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
leadership team create an action plan that makes sense for the company's strategy? This case is designed to be used with the "Balanced Scorecard Simulation Game." Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
that evidence "implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy," that "whether we like it or not, trial and error is a tremendously powerful process for solving problems in a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
some kind of conspiratorial development that was imposed by manipulative entrepreneurs trying to make women feel a certain way. It was much more organic and part of a huge social transformation." Church... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of developing its third set of 10‐year goals, with the aim of producing a plan that will ensure the viability of the company 50 years from now. With this end in mind, Dow's leaders understand their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
evolving context of industries shapes leaders in turn. This co-evolutionary process of leadership and industry development is told through the story of the American airline... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
disease-based integrated practice units called multidisciplinary care centers. These units were supported by a new construction project that had created new disease-specific facilities and a widely supported administrative View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
be in place. There might not even be an org chart. You’re starting the process with a blank slate.” “It was a humbling experience,” adds Zhu. “The relationship that Mike and I developed with Tam provided... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Aprendiz, before creating and developing Catraca Livre (meaning "open turnstile" in Portuguese) while he was an Advanced Leadership fellow at Harvard. Dimenstein... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
firm, since about 75 percent of the interns typically accept offers to join the company. But the firm’s leadership wondered if remote work would change all of that. Would the interns be able to build ties with their peers View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2014 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
Strava
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra
Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Cycling; Biking; Running; Sports; Technology; Mobile App; Mobile; GPS; Motivation; Behavioral Science; Founders; Term Sheet; Investment; Terms; Silicon Valley; Lifestyle; Strava; Financing; Fundraising; Angel; Valuation; Growth; Forecast; Business Startups; Business Plan; Trends; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Institutional Investing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Management Succession; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Timing; Bicycle Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Web Services Industry; California; New England
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
demand novel commitments from business are creating new standards of conduct for even those actors least willing to change. Finally, though less obviously, there is a palpable thirst among people around the world for leadership that is... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
have steered huge strategy shifts at Intel Corp. and the Pentagon, for example. In 2011, Thinkers50 named him the world's most influential business thinker. At the same time, he has held major leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
"True North." The book offers methods for personal reflection and includes targeted exercises that help leaders hone in on the purpose of their leadership and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace