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From workforce disruption and customer trust to business model innovation and ethical oversight, the Salesforce story raises critical questions for executives: What happens when software performs labor? How should companies adapt their... View Details
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

about the numbers.” A compassionate approach to restructuring France Télécom’s story should be a wakeup call for companies that charge ahead with disruptive reorganizations. Some employees—especially older, longtime workers—can feel left... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
  • Background Note

Making UK Energy Smarter

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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    When Do Stocks and Bonds Move Together, and Why Does it Matter?

    The co-movement of Treasury bonds and stocks is an important indicator for both policy makers and for long-term investors. A positive co-movement between nominal Treasury bonds and stocks, as in the 1980s, means that nominal bonds amplify the volatility of stock... View Details

      Allison H. Mnookin

      Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently is the co-chair of the first-year MBA Technology and Operations Management course. In addition, she... View Details

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      General Management - Faculty & Research

      Offense." The Atlantic (June 19, 2025). More Publications In the News 20 Jun 2025 VoxEU When Supply Shocks to Essential Inputs Spur Innovation: Lessons from the Global Rare Earths Disruption By: Laura Alfaro 11 Jun 2025 Institute for New... View Details
      • 07 Sep 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Sept. 7

      the global financial system, environmental degradation, and inadequate government and international institutions are just a few of the forces that threaten to disrupt global market capitalism in the decades ahead. In conversations with... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Business History - Faculty & Research

      Management ; Business Earnings ; Financial Statements ; Change Management ; Disruption ; Volatility ; Transition ; Crime and Corruption ; Cost vs Benefits ; Decision Making ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Decisions ; Demographics ;... View Details
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      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      expertise. The Disruptive Journey from Detroit to Boston Senior Lecturer Chet Huber (MBA 1979) + More Info – Less Info Why is it so hard for successful, established organizations to sustain their success? How do they miss the threats and... View Details
      • March 2025
      • Case

      Stagwell: AI and the Future of Marketing

      By: Suraj Srinivasan and Radhika Kak
      In early 2025, Mark Penn, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Stagwell, a global marketing company with a network of over 70+ agencies that served over 4000 blue-chip customers across 40 countries, was looking at ways that marketers should navigate the disruption emanating... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Innovation Strategy; Change Management; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Marketing Strategy; Service Delivery; Creativity; Business Model; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry
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      • 30 Sep 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

      extreme heat, loss of the Web or telephone lines, disruption in the water supply). 2. A flexible set of response modules. Leaders should be able to pull combinations of pre-set response "modules" off the shelf. Modularizing the... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Watkins
      • 19 Dec 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

      Two intense years of pandemic distancing and disruption gave way to another sort of distress in 2022—a year of soul searching, burnout, and quiet quitting. The 10 most-read articles on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge showed a... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 05 May 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

      cost-cutting plan” to slash $3.6 billion in expenses by 2019. In 2021, well into the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, P&G management announced price increases for a range of products, from adult diapers and baby care... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
      Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
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        Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

        disruptive automation, the nature of middle skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum. Surveys of educators and employers reveal the disconnect behind this partnership’s underperformance and... View Details
        • 14 Aug 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

        Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Banking; Financial Services
        • 20 Oct 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College

        • 15 Aug 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

        2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book provides detailed accounts of a range of public health... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 21 Aug 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: August 21

          PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012) Abstract Based on a six... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne