Always On - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

explains Simons. At a recent AMP session, Simons rolled out his research on what he calls the Executive Compass, which assigns key performance factors to each of the tool's 8 points. "The North Star of this is identifying your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

customers was radically different from anything delivered historically by any firm." Competitors "keep you on your toes," concludes Rouse's Deering, "and they increase your awareness of the need to View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

“Every time we have to decide between Europe and the open sea, it is always the open sea we shall choose” That famous Winston Churchill remark to Charles deGaulle resonates gloomily today. In the worse outcome for the Brexit referendum,... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

fast growth. "This is not an indictment of them," Christensen emphasized. "This is an absolutely normal progression of economic institutions as they become successful." In his remarks, Christensen shared his views on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" business issues and... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

and autocratic, generating a heavy flow from the top downward. Your research on Thyssen contradicts this notion. In general, what did you discover about German management that is in opposition to what we thought we knew? A: This... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

dynamics, including Nepal's, they have leaned toward one of two approaches: a broad view of several different countries together, or the sharp focus of a case study. Iyer and Do's method combines the best of both worlds by examining a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many observers like a military... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Should I keep control of my company? How do I turn potential into profit?... View Details

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names. "The larger an organization... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

potential amount of money that could be devoted to venture capital." Although little has been written about Doriot to date, he was one of the 20th-century's visionary thinkers. Based on his personal... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

human physiology (typing is still difficult on a small keyboard), technology (battery life for a fully converged device might be in minutes, not hours), and human preference (would the iPod be as popular if it looked like a cell phone?).... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

turning to marketing partners. Harvard Business School professors Gail J. McGovern and John Quelch documented the trend in an article in the March issue of Harvard Business Review. One reason behind the move? While company marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

of the people you put on the transformation team." I tried to explain the business case. But I could have spent entire days on the telephone listening to all this. Basically, each division had many... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of Harvard Business School, and... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

useful change effort? What are the risks for the subordinate in dealing with a leader not always able to separate judgements regarding the quality of contrary ideas from those concerning personality traits of the person advancing them?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

"Nobody outside India understands what that means instead of going to a dealer and taking a vehicle and going home, you had to make a booking, and your turn would come probably after ten years," said Bajaj. At one point the Bajaj... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

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