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- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
phenomenon benefits producers and consumers alike. But a recent Harvard Business Review article by consultants Mark Gottfredson and Keith Aspinall questions whether there are benefits for producers, particularly those producing... View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
office. An executive search professional refuses the headaches associated with leading a practice area. Information technology consultants resist management assignments, for fear they'll become "administrators." Aggressive... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
2014 report from Boston Consulting Group, some two-thirds of total growth in the grocery sector has come from "responsible consumption" products. For example, organic grocer Whole Foods' annual revenues have increased steadily in the past... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
strategy (and some consultants who advise on strategy) is that they assume that once you design strategy it gets executed. They don't look inside the process and realize that it's much more complicated. Bower: It's almost as if they think... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
all, he’s someone we can all trust to always do the right thing.” However, romantic entanglements were part of Easterbrook’s story from the start. When the board appointed him CEO, they knew he had a relationship with a third-party View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
enables lower-level managers to make more decisions without consulting their superiors. By the same token, Computer-Assisted Design and Computer-Assisted Manufacturing software creates a situation in which the plant worker needs less... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- April 2025
- Case
Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Alexis Lefort
For 20 years, Elizabeth Rowe was a world-renowned principal flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. But in 2024, Rowe decided to leave her position to pursue a new full-time career as a leadership coach. At 50, Rowe was well under the typical retirement age, and,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Small Business; Social Media; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Learning; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Creativity; Happiness; Identity; Interests; Satisfaction; Motivation and Incentives; Prejudice and Bias; Reputation; Culture; Resignation and Termination; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon, and Alexis Lefort. "Giving Up on a Passion: Elizabeth Rowe at the Boston Symphony Orchestra." Harvard Business School Case 425-037, April 2025.
- March 1, 2021
- Article
Transitioning to Clean Energy Transportation Services: Life-cycle Cost Analysis for Vehicle Fleets
By: Stephen Comello, Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Comprehensive global decarbonization requires that transportation services cease to rely on fossil fuels for power generation. This paper develops a generic, time-driven life-cycle cost model for mobility services to address two closely related questions central to the... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Electric Vehicles; Renewable Energy; Biofuel; Carbon Emissions; Mobility; Batteries; Energy; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting; Transportation; Operations; Management; Sustainable Cities; Decision Making; Investment; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Comello, Stephen, Gunther Glenk, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Transitioning to Clean Energy Transportation Services: Life-cycle Cost Analysis for Vehicle Fleets." Art. 116408. Applied Energy 285 (March 1, 2021).
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. Shirley Spence is a writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm. [Image: FG Trade] View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
sunk cost and some related business theories. What are the implications for decision making in other business contexts? A: The obvious implications are with regards to the many types of auctions in which businesses participate. For example, companies bid for View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
negative outcomes, or as a rejuvenating experience, with positive post-break consequences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52074 Harvard Business School Case 316-134 HourlyNerd HourlyNerd, a two-sided marketplace platform for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. I have worked as a View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
auditing and particularly large amounts of consulting services from the same supplier. And now, by means of Section 404, it will: (1 require senior executives to certify that their companies have financial controls that work, and (2 give... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
consultancy firm that broadly rated management practices in three areas: monitoring—how well managers keep track of what's happening in a firm and make good use of that information; targets—how well organizations set appropriate goals and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
of whether to launch a start-up with a classmate or accept a cushy offer from a top-tier consulting firm. Next, they look at Barry Nalls, who describes lessons learned from starting his own telecommunications start-up, MASERGY, after... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
IBM Business Consulting Services, and CNBC Ventures—ranged from the humble to the almost-conceivably futuristic. By 2008, every person at a similar conference would be enjoying a device with a continuous wireless connection, offered Eric... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they'd hire an MBA. According to several deans, that's no longer true. Financial services and consulting firms, which hire... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
investing the time or recruiting people to improve those processes.” The researchers conducted the survey over nine months between October 2015 and June 2016, in partnership with the membership organization WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, then led by Susan... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Other Agencies Influence Approvals In the case of procedural legitimacy, the researchers found a strong influence from an unlikely source—the USDA's sister agency, the Food and Drug Administration. In the process of approving GMOs, companies have the option of View Details