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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
like high tech or in multinationals—and then how to manage it better. The answers to those "how" questions are the first four sections of the book. Gilbert: The key is that what can be understood as the strategy of a company is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
current tax rates or government benefit programs in retirement and health care—a big "if". Stating that net debt (financial liabilities minus financial assets) levels of 200 percent of gross... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
we don’t know yet if premium memberships or financial payments or any other ideas will be able to make up for the lost advertising revenue. But they will definitely try. "The reaction of advertisers today is... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
watching,” she said. “They're looking for more than just a press release or a DEI report. They want change.” In a study by Williams, who is also a professor of law at Georgetown University, White participants who watched a video that... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
is to writing about difficult ethical decisions?" Or put differently, what happens in between the big decisions—which don't come along very often? For some people they come along very, very... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. A Shock To The System That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big Box toy... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a vehicle shaped like a segment of a... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
If you’re a business leader who oozes achievement, sprints up the corporate ladder, and earns big bucks, your co-workers probably resent you to some extent. New research says high-achievers can win over their colleagues with a simple... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the product. There would be a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
George says, she became an “enabler” for the whole firm. Navigate today’s challenges. Be prepared to successfully lead your company through crises and help solve difficult global problems. In 2014, new General Motors CEO Mary Barra faced her first View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
wheel” In a paper forthcoming in Organization Science, professor Tsedal B. Neeley and coauthors delve into why many managers tend to send the same message, over and over, via multiple media to team members. At first blush, this strategy may sound like nagging View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
officers receive small rewards for loans that perform well and small penalties for loans that perform badly); and the high-powered incentive (in which officers receive big rewards for issuing loans that perform well, but View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice as hard for a quarter of the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
got behind the wheel again. Not just one trailer, or two of them, or five, or a dozen, but hundreds, on one ship. During this setback in his life, when he almost lost his... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
mistake some leaders make is lining up investors, advisers, and champions for their venture and then neglecting them in favor of spending their time trying to wrestle with opponents. Those initial allies can start to lose interest, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
homed in on five key strategies that any manager, entrepreneur, or CEO can learn. Each of the lessons reads like a paradox or Zen koan that takes intelligence and practice to unpack. "Look Forward,... View Details