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  • 06 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

"demonstrated" why a proposal to allocate many more resources to building a firm's business in Europe went too far. The document is incomprehensible (we have yet to find anyone in that firm who can explain it clearly), but it has successfully undermined View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

into the economy to maintain low interest rates, supporting business growth and lower borrowing costs—help? Should we be surprised that economic growth, at least in terms of how we measure it, increased without attendant inflation? Did we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

started HBS. We didn’t expect moving to a new country and adapting to a new culture to be easy but, looking back, decisions that normally would have been tough seemed obvious and easy thanks to the love and View Details
  • 05 May 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

another environment?" Anyone who has studied business cultures in various parts of the world probably would respond affirmatively. Gerald Nanninga observed that "unethical decisions can often appear to be the 'best' View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Article

State Activism and the Hidden Incentives Behind Bank Acquisitions

By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie and Juan Almandoz
A number of studies have shown that, as a result of the ambiguity of U.S. legal mandates, organizations have considerable latitude in how they comply with regulations. In this paper, we address how the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Opportunities; Government Legislation; Acquisition; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Motivation and Incentives; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Practices and Processes; Research; United States
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Brice Cutrer Jones

eight years, in addition to ranking either first or second in popularity of all wines of any variety and origin. Jones credits his success to luck (white wine came into vogue just as he was harvesting his first crops); to the support of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

so fluid that all desks have wheels to allow free movement between "cabals" (teams) on a regular basis (which happens frequently enough that Valve created a homegrown tracking app to allow peers to find each other), a unique hiring apparatus that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

develop to support improving value for patients. In addition to restructuring care delivery in the hospitals and throughout northeastern Ohio, The Clinic has investments, facilities, and staff in several other states in the U.S. as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review in 2019 for my research on using machine learning to support decision making in law. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Named as one of the Top Innovators to Watch... View Details
  • Web

Global Business Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Business in Society and Strategy track. Introduction to Global Business ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Global Business $1,850 Next 4-week session starts October 1st Enroll Now... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather the company compensates these individuals for the resources these better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

to procure an abortion, management is confronted again with the same dilemma. To make matters even more complicated, each stakeholder group contains members who both support and oppose the issue at hand. What’s the solution? When... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Jul 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

by extension, potentially supportive of bad leadership (as in Nazi Germany), she focuses on behaviors of the other three types. Of these three, "participants" seem to me to offer the most potential for long-term, productive... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

community support to amplify my journey and contribution. Little did I know, we’d become the first African-American mother-daughter duo to graduate. B.J. and her mom, Benaree As a Black female founder, I’ve been extremely fortunate to... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

unfair to high performers—that it was fairer to lay off the weak links and support the strong ones. “It’s a little surreal to watch a room full of people discuss what you did,” Cote said following the class sessions. Cote explained that... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 02 May 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

class based on some of its contents, regardless of the material assigned for that day. Some of the columns we’ve shared over the years have been prepared based on newspaper reporting. Last month’s column on the decisions facing Disney’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has hit many companies hard—some to the point of considering bankruptcy—Antill’s research findings may help business leaders make important decisions to avoid the high price of liquidation and choose a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne