Publications

10 Jan 2018
Blog Post

8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

is essentially a low-risk environment to refine your talking points and, at the bare minimum, make sure that you survive the dreaded HBS cold call. I have lost count of the number of times that the manufacturing guru View Details

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General Management - Faculty & Research

controls do not occur frequently, and when they do, they remain in place for a long time. Overall, they have not been used systematically across countries or time, and there has been considerable heterogeneity across countries in terms of... View Details

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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The practice of investment is changing. A rapidly growing share of assets around the globe are making investment choices targeting not just return, but also sustainability, values-alignment or impact. An active community of faculty are... View Details

January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
Background Note

Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana

Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

learn the unvarnished truth from relevant stakeholders about how the design and behavior of the organization is misaligned with its goals and strategy. The Strategic Fitness Process (SFP) was designed to enable leaders to overcome organizational silence about the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2022
News

Rising Power Plant Emissions Threaten New England Climate Goals

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)

What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at Harvard Business School for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus. What do we do? Our role is to make... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

early enough. Realignment Same as startup plus: Helping the new leader make the case for change to the organization, especially if he or she is coming in from the outside. Sustaining Success Constant reality testing: is this truly a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap

As a career coach at HBS, Matt Spielman (MBA 1999) has heard the groans of frustrated professionals who are unhappy in their current jobs and faced with an urgent question: should they leave immediately or wait until they've secured their... View Details

December 2010
Compilation

VCPE Strategy Vignettes I

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope

These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners must decide whether to invest in an intriguing opportunity that lies outside the firm's carefully developed... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Investment Portfolio; Business or Company Management; China

June 2021
Case

Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei

In this multimedia case, Bozoma Saint John recounts numerous defining moments from her childhood and work experiences. We learn what empowered and inspired her to be her authentic self, to be vulnerable and open to new experiences, to find commonality with others, to... View Details

Keywords: Biases; Personal Development and Career; Identity; Interests; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Opportunities; Leadership Style; Diversity

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all over the world. Given the context of the economic and political environment in the... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

Welcome to the age of business interdependence, say HBS professor Marco Iansiti and collaborator Roy Levien, authors of the new HBSP book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability. Think of... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

company as an undervalued stock. CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in short of projections, top managers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2008 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)

By: Anette Mikes

An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Knowledge Sharing; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Situation or Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry