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Events - Business & Environment

Climate Action Week invites climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders to come together and explore solutions to the most complex and challenging... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

evaluate the performance of the CEO, identifying his or her strengths and weaknesses and helping the CEO to establish trusted leadership of the company. Board members should provide ongoing feedback View Details

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Judges - Alumni

Culture, B2B, B2C, Go-to-Market Strategy, Market Research, Marketing, Brand Building, Remote Work, Strategic Partnerships, Social Impact, Scaling, Product Roadmap, Pitch Feedback Advice Focus most of your energy on clearly articulating the View Details

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

2016 University of Chicago Press Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services By: Ofek, Elie, Eitan Muller, and Barak Libai... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2014
Article

Delaware's Choice

By: Guhan Subramanian

This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the alternative of "ineffective" staggered boards would have been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Laws and Statutes; Policy; Delaware

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2025
Book

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

Keywords: Retirement

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November 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game?

By: Andrei Hagiu

In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it the best chance against the upcoming Sony PlayStation 2. Initially called "Project Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Recruitment; Leadership; Management Teams; Multi-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Production; Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Video Game Industry; Texas

April 2010
Case

A Giant Among Women

By: Willy C. Shih, Ethan S Bernstein, Maly Hout Bernstein, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Yi-Ling Wei

Few CEOs successfully manage the evolution of their companies from OEM outsourcer to branded manufacturer to expert consumer marketer as well as Tony Lo, CEO of Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., now the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Global Strategy; Gender; Customer Satisfaction; Product Development; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

It looks like a sleek box. But the story behind it is far more interesting. I remember the first time I spoke with Aatish Patel (HES 2022), now cofounder and CEO of XCharge Energy. He had zeroed in on a View Details

02 May 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How To Ask Better Questions

financial support? Fundraisers and entrepreneurs must be prepared to answer these four questions. Resolve Your Toughest Work Problems with 5 QuestionsAsk yourself these 5 questions to find the best decision.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Article

Buyer-Initiated vs. Seller-Initiated Information Revelation

Sales presentations are the core of the selling process where salespeople provide information to prospects. One challenge is that the amount of information available to be potentially communicated may exceed salespeople's ability to communicate or customers' ability to... View Details

Keywords: Information; Quality; Marketing Communications; Game Theory; Sales

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

that people from all over the country were moving to Memphis to help build this company.” But Bobo’s excitement had no real outlet. “We scour the planet to find athletic talent at an early age,” he says, “but we wait too long to cultivate academic or business talent,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are developed. This dynamic occurs because the organization's governance structures, problem solving routines, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Rigol Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Challenges and... View Details

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still have problems with it. But... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2020
Case

Minerva 2004: Discovery

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Biotechnology Industry

August 2019
Case

The Allstate Corporation, 2019

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America