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  • 06 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

transition are ones in which a single person at the place at the right time can have enormous impact. As David Ben-Gurion made Israel, and Abraham Lincoln remade the United States, Nelson Mandela reforged South Africa. He was not the only... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

buyer characteristics. Consider the experiences of condo developers targeting retirees who wanted to downsize their homes. Sales were weak until the developers realized their business was not construction but transitioning lives. Instead... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

makeups support more chain restaurants, but that other factors, including suburban sprawl and public transit commuters, also have some impact. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

now the government says they really meant 180. That takes its toll. Q: What about the effect on the financial markets? A: When it comes to the shutdown, I'm less concerned about them. I think that equities respond to a lot of things, and any downturns have more to do... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

well as strategists and policy makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50820 in press Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being Long-term Health Implications of Students' Friendship Formation During the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2015 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Cisco Systems: In Search of the Next CEO

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott, Olivia Hull and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
It’s August 2014 and John Chambers is expected to announce his retirement after 17 years as CEO of global technology giant Cisco Systems. Under Chambers’s leadership, Cisco has grown from $2.2 billion in annual revenues and under 4,000 employees to revenues of $46... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Succession Planning; CEO Succession; Managing Change; Person-organization Fit; Management Succession; Transition; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Retirement; Innovation Leadership; Recruitment; Corporate Governance; Experience and Expertise; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Jose; California
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  • March 1999 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Eli Lilly: The Evista Project

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
Describes the creation and operation of the initial two heavyweight teams for new drug development and launch. The primary focus is on one of the teams, Evista, although comparisons to the other team, Zyprexa, are included. Lilly must decide the next phase (postlaunch)... View Details
Keywords: Projects; Groups and Teams; Operations; Management Teams; Product Development; Transition; Product Design; Business Startups; Business Plan; Product Launch; Competition; Service Operations; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

company to do even more. Members of the fifth Integration and Values Team (IVT5) pondered this and other global citizenship possibilities, reviewing how people were developed and worked as the transition to the GIE was underway. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

strategic issue. For countries, regions and cities, competition raised the stakes of understanding how to improve productivity and attract firms in specific fields beyond providing low factor costs and subsidies. Many countries, from natural-resource-rich, to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

student at the right time, and transitioning from one point to the next—that are critical to success in case-method teaching. The cases Christensen developed over the years elicited candid discussion of some of the thorniest classroom... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 15 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

you owned a sporty little car, you might be tempted to drive it all the time, settling in to the comfy leather seats whenever you needed to get groceries or meet friends for dinner. But Derek lives in Vancouver, Canada, where public View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the IPO and not be satisfied with only incremental improvements.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

started. But it faced many questions as the ventures grew and started to win their first customers. How should NBI handle the transition of the venture back to a mainstream division within Intel? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

evidence of how intra-regional differences in socio-political variables have aided theoretical development, and with respect to questions of entrepreneurship, regime durability, and democratic transition especially. Publisher's site:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

technology transfer? It is one of the easiest policy levers we have to influence our nation's rate of innovation. A: Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and similar smaller economies have achieved a full transition from agriculture-based... View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • December 2007
  • Background Note

Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows"

By: James K. Sebenius and Stephen Friedman
Important transformation at Goldman Sachs, where one of the authors was Chairman, required analysis, political leadership, and management in order to fundamentally shift the strategy, people, and culture on a sustainable basis. After describing the actions needed to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Transition; Strategic Planning; Core Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity
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  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Joint Special Operations, developed practical lessons for transitioning from a traditional command-and-control structure to a "team of teams" approach more suitable for the battlefield. McChrystal realized a lengthy analysis... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

commercialization and adoption. Emerging opportunities must be nurtured, and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

Harvard Business School Case 516-017 Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, cofounders of India's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart, were reviewing the foregoing Facebook post, which had gone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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