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  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

because the goals conflict,” Sucher says. Means: A company’s means are not merely its business methods, but whether it takes “the fair path to get there,” Sucher says, in creating equitable practices for... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 07 Dec 2021
  • Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

enterprise-level leadership. The goal is to build technical competencies in both directions. While the T-shaped manager framework has many advantages, it has a critical flaw: It overlooks the importance of emotional intelligence. Enter... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

Source: guvendemir Courage is the quality that distinguishes great leaders from excellent managers. Over the past decade, I have worked with and studied more than 200 CEOs of major companies through board service, consulting, and research as a member of Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
  • 19 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • March 1993 (Revised January 1994)
  • Case

Eastwind Trading Co. (A)

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Two professional women are contemplating a business venture. They must assess the nature of the opportunity, what options it opens if they are to pursue the venture, and how they might finance the new business. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Finance; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Opportunities
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  • 08 Dec 2023
  • News

New Leadership Role and Structure

goal is to find opportunities for synergies and leverage so we can provide a seamless experience and unparalleled value proposition to anyone who attends Harvard Business School over the full span of their... View Details
  • Profile

Ann Chao

at my disposal to pursue my passions. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? From the beginning, the consistent message I received from HBS and my classmates was to pursue my passions and resist the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
  • TeachingInterests

Creating the Modern Financial System

By: David A. Moss

Creating the Modern Financial System offers a vital perspective on finance and the financial system by exploring the historical development of key financial instruments and institutions worldwide. The premise of the course is that students will gain a richer and... View Details

  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

is in process. Teaming, she says, is essential to organizational learning. In her new book Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership, Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53092 April 2017 Stanford Law Review The New Look of Deal Protection By: Subramanian, Guhan, and Fernan Restrepo Abstract—Deal protection in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) evolves in response to Delaware case law and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details
  • Web

Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Professor Mihir Desai Build an intuitive understanding of financial principles to better communicate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Pay by August 14 $1,850 Certificate New... View Details
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

possess the required skills but didn’t attend college, according to a new technical note by Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg. The net result: Millions of jobs have gone unfilled—and millions of people have been left... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger

This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States
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  • June 2013 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

Ensina!

By: John J-H Kim, Alejandra Meraz Velasco and Christine An
In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the support and encouragement of several prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry; Brazil
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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Leadership Initiative was organized to be a catalyst for research on leaders and leadership, and to design effective leadership development programs that are relevant for the 21st century. The goal of the Initiative is to support Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

Building a Startup at HBS

Our group initially came together through a deep passion for health care – with the goal of creating a novel product that addressed an unmet need and made a tangible difference in patients’ lives. We felt that if we combined our prior... View Details
  • Profile

Brice Fodouop

products more expensive.” With a goal of establishing a food & beverage company in his home continent, Brice has pursued a career path that prepares him for leadership in manufacturing. “That’s why I studied engineering, then joined... View Details