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  • June 2013
  • Supplement

Elasto Therm: The Next Step (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe
This is the Video Supplement for Elasto Therm: The Next Step (HBS Case #813030). View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Search; Search Funds; Manufacturing; Pricing Policies; Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Sales Channels; Sales Force Management; Customer Focus; Customer Specificity; Manufacturing Tools; Acquisitions; Growth Strategy; Growth And Development Strategy; Growth; Plastics; Turnarounds; Labor Management; Stockholders; Careers; Job Design; Gender; Life Planning; Employee Empowerment; Work/family Balance; Work-life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Management; Employee Ownership; Acquisition; Rubber Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

Jobs Might Be Offshorable?" Authors:Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract In a 2007 working paper, Alan Blinder assessed the "offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations and estimated that between 22% and 29% of all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Spring 2018
  • Article

Henry Kissinger and Robert Mugabe: The Forgotten Connection via Remarkably Creative Negotiation

By: James K. Sebenius
When Robert Mugabe was forced out of office in late 2017 after 37 years of increasingly brutal rule in Zimbabwe, he had been in the job so long that few recall how he got there. Fewer still remember that it was Henry Kissinger, whose complex, if unlikely, negotiations... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; History; Negotiation Style; Outcome or Result; Zimbabwe
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  • 01 Jul 2025
  • Video

Government-industry collaboration for decarbonization

  • March 2000 (Revised August 2000)
  • Background Note

Transition to General Management Website

By: David A. Garvin and Jeffrey Berger
Describes the transition from functional to general management. Describes the distinctive challenges of the general manager's job as well as how best to manage the short-term results of assuming a position as general manager. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges
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  • 08 Jul 2022
  • News

More Workers without Degrees Are Landing Jobs. Will It Last?

  • January 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Steve Jobs: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Steve Jobs who throughout his career flaunted convention and chose an unusual path to success. The case describes how Jobs, as young man, acquired an appreciation for aesthetics and the liberal arts, but was also quick to recognize and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Business Startups; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Innovation; Work-life Balance; Innovation Leadership; Power and Influence; Success; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

    In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
    • September 2006 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    QuickBase

    By: Clayton M. Christensen and Mark Szigety
    Describes the challenge that engineers and marketing executives at Intuit Corp. faced when finding markets and applications for their QuickBase product. The breakthrough occurred when they abandoned their conventional modes of market segmentation, and instead strove to... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Engineering; Product Marketing; Segmentation; Jobs and Positions; Consumer Behavior; Information Technology Industry
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    • 17 May 2012
    • News

    Safety inspections don't hurt businesses-study

    • 15 Oct 2012
    • News

    Roth shares economics Nobel

    • 27 Jan 2010
    • News

    Harvard Business School Faculty on the New Apple Tablet

    • 11 Sep 2020
    • News

    How to Thrive in a Gig Economy

    • August 2003 (Revised May 2006)
    • Case

    Elizabeth Parker (A)

    By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Wickham Skinner and David Krackhardt
    A new political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over a highly responsible job in the state government and is met with bureaucratic inertia. Describes a successful strategy to overcome organizational resistance to change. View Details
    Keywords: Public Sector; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence
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    • 27 Oct 2019
    • News

    How a Company’s Aging Workforce Retrained Itself for the Cloud

    • 27 Feb 2012
    • News

    How Can Workplace Stress Be Reduced?

    • 09 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

    Candidates consider many factors when seeking new job opportunities – location, role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical –... View Details
    • 14 Jun 2022
    • Cold Call Podcast

    What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?

    Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan
    • 12 Nov 2020
    • News

    Commutes

    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    On the Origins of Our Discontent

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Thomas J. DeLong
    Signs of discontent with global capitalism and national capitalisms abound. Unless we find ways to create better jobs and then improve those jobs further with empathic management and thoughtful mentoring, then we will be unable to create a more stable, purposeful... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Globalization; Government and Politics
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