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  • October 2013
  • Article

Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Dina Wang and Derek C. M. van Bever
Consulting fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consulting Industry
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  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

It turns out that LEGOs promote lifelong learning. While the bricks themselves teach children the fundamentals of construction and creativity, the company's almost century-old history of management change has important lessons for... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

initial terms and conditions of employment. Most workers accept a new job thinking of fundamentals like salary, title, and vacation time. But, says Fuller, they also need to be looking at the long-term. Where do employees end up? Are they... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 14 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford
  • Article

181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit

By: Claudine Gartenberg and George Serafeim
On August 19, 2019, the Business Roundtable (BR) issued a memo entitled “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The Business Roundtable, one of the most preeminent business lobbies in the United States, includes 192 CEOs of leading U.S. companies from Apple to... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Stakeholder Management; CEO; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Strategy
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Reverse the Curse of the Top-5

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to journals ranked in the top-5 of their discipline. This increase is the rational response, by faculty, to the overweighting of publications in these journals by university promotions and... View Details
Keywords: Information Publishing; Journals and Magazines; Power and Influence; Research
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    Chasing Stars

    It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details

    • 06 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 6

    effects of corporate governance should be greatest when firms become overvalued. We test this simple yet powerful idea. Using proxies of firm and industry price deviations from fundamentals and standard measures of corporate governance,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

    powerful, fundamental leadership strategy is being largely overlooked. It is, in fact, the most innately human one: Be kind. LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
    • Profile

    Merve Ciplak

    way society operates, it creates responsibilities that weren’t present before.” After completing her first year with Harvard Law School, Merve is fulfilling her RC year with HBS. “The fundamental thing about the HBS experience,” she says,... View Details
    • 14 Aug 2006
    • HBS Case

    On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

    explore their own fundamental assumptions about leadership and human nature. Are people basically lazy or energetic? What motivates people to do their best? What is the most effective style of leading? Is it better to be loved or feared?... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • Blog Post

    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

    skills that will help me interact with others in successful ways. I attribute Peterson’s failures to his individual contributor mindset and it’s something that I think would have gone differently had he switched his mindset prior to stepping into a managerial role. The... View Details
    • May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort
    Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States
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    • September 30, 2019
    • Article

    Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Transition
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage
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    • 14 Sep 2021
    • HBS Seminar

    Dashun Wang, Northwestern

    • 02 Nov 2023
    • News

    Seeding Startups

    an inexpensive, 10-session crash course on the fundamentals of starting one’s own business, from ideation and fundraising to go-to-market strategy and sales. TiE Seattle’s Go Vertical Startup Creation Weekend is a mini-incubator. Over the... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 22 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

    fundamentals of what it takes to build a company alongside a cohort of 30 other technically minded individuals (a subset of the broader HBS class), then use the program as a launchpad for joining a startup or maybe launching something... View Details
    • 04 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

    data privacy. They see privacy as a fundamental human right. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR as most of us know it, is a big part of this. It's a top-down approach that comes with its mix of pros and cons. In the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology