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- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
U.S - he was struck by the owners’ lament that they just couldn’t hire enough skilled trades people, industrial painters and welders, for example. Their pain point led Sam to start researching the world of green skilled trades. Initially, Sam and Gautam saw their View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
robustness, and flexibility. A "natural experiment" if you like. In 1999, however, the failures of two successive missions aimed at Mars brought the initiative to a halt. In the aftermath, the finger was pointed squarely at FBC... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
CEO about as tough as it ever has been. Companies need world-class efficiency, constant innovation, and a customer orientation. This requires a group of talented, dedicated people working as a team across business units and country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS, I don’t remember any of my professors as having been openly left-wing or right-wing political ideologues. We studied business management and the “bottom line.” But since Professor Kanter has introduced the subject of political... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
America’s jobs market changed substantially. Harvard Business School research shows that between 1990 and 2014, America’s ability to generate “traded” jobs—that is, jobs in industries exposed to international competition—stalled sharply.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
Revival of the Fittest by Donald N. Sull (Harvard Business School Press) Your company has been outperforming competitors for years, your charismatic CEO was just featured on the cover of a national business... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
manner of Dell and Cisco. Because the majority of these transformations are ongoing, the ultimate success or failure of these undertakings is difficult to evaluate. General Motors, for example, is attempting to rehaul its View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
this happens is one of the many subjects discussed in the new book Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know, by authors Marc J. Epstein of Rice University and F. Warren McFarlan of Harvard Business School. In this excerpt from the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Company's Deep Smarts offers a roadmap for ensuring that critical knowledge remains in the organization. This excerpt focuses on the executive onboarding practice at Bank of America. Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor of View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
What makes a movie click with an audience? How important is buzz in the success or failure of an entertainment product? Should worldwide releases of movies be done over time, or all at once? Those are the kinds of questions that interest... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
What happens to a country's economy when its government is politically unstable, such as has been the case historically in Mexico? Can business get done under a strong-arm dictatorship, or when a government is too weak to protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
’01) (Harvard Business Review Press) Anthony draws on stories from his research and fieldwork with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. He presents a simple definition of innovation, breaks down the essential... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
intense exposure to news of business leaders' alleged (and in some cases proven) acts to deliberately mislead investors, employees, and others, we are naturally interested in greater transparency. And it applies equally importantly to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Manny Medina (MBA 2003) didn’t set out to found Outreach, the Seattle-based sales-engagement unicorn. He never expected to become an entrepreneur. When he quit a frustrating role in business development at Microsoft in 2011, he didn’t... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details