preparation - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

into the chain. Stephen P. Kaufman is a senior lecturer of business administration. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The best leaders will break out of silos and improve workplace culture It’s said that fortune favors the prepared mind. Fortune... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

Professor of Business Administration Emeritus. “It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed.” In this excerpt from Effective Fundraising, McFarlan offers nine practical tips for trustees preparing to seek... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2025
Chapter

Leapfrog Leaders: Accelerating Systems Leadership Skills

By: Laura Cabrera, Derek Cabrera and Hise O. Gibson

We need leaders who can execute at the Strategic, Operational, and Tactical (SOT) levels. But, research shows it takes time for skills to develop at all three levels—too much time. Why does it take too much time? First, because expertise is borne of experience. An... View Details

Keywords: DSRP; VCML; Strategy; Operations; Leadership Development; Decision Making; Organizational Structure

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27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

service providers—that are hiring to fill new demand. Also, remote work will quickly become more the norm than the exception on the other side of the pandemic, so organizations should start learning now how to prepare for the Work from... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

him as he prepared to land in Boston after a long transcontinental flight. Now let's continue the story. At the end of the flight Jeff felt that all his ruminations about his many pressures and responsibilities had left him more tired... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

Teaching Interest

Negotiation

By: Kevin P. Mohan

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

sellers control important sources of information, including historic financial information. What do you think the seller has been doing, as it prepares for a sale? It might make itself look particularly good by accelerating sales,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

technology adoption activity as far back as AD 1500. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong explain these findings in their paper Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? To prepare the paper, the team compiled a series of data... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

objective associates or making small tests; (3) seek ways of attaining distance by looking at a decision through someone else's eyes or focusing on the long-term impact of the decision; and (4) prepare to be wrong by setting limits on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

me when I say that most men can’t even begin to understand this. Long live remote work!” Adrian Zicari suggests that the problem of extending a culture into a remote workforce is not one of technology. As he put it, “(Company) structures, procedures and culture are not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

one-year anniversary of the pandemic, 13 HBS faculty members offered advice on everything from time management to employee mental health for companies trying to prepare for the “next normal.” 2. For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

business, and so on. One of the most interesting things to me was how many leaders admitted that the reputation either was accidentally developed by them or bequeathed to them by circumstance. It’s like the expression, “Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

For the general business practitioner, what are the major takeaways from your observations? How will their businesses be affected, and are there things they should be doing now to prepare or react? Answer: The pandemic has made more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

the necessary behavioral changes. Poor communication. A change initiative is like the start of a marathon: change will be occurring rapidly in some units, whereas in others it won't even have gotten under way. Change leaders need to be View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

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

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

critical areas. Our body is prepared for one of two actions: fight or flight. Incumbents naturally choose flight. What looks highly attractive to the entrant continues to look relatively unattractive to the incumbent. The asymmetric... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

November 2024
Case

Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais

The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details