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  • 01 Jun 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

ablokhin SUMMING UP Is the Amazon Organization Losing Its Ability to Learn? There was little sympathy for Amazon’s loss of online retail market share at the outset of the current global pandemic among respondents to this month’s column.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

time, managers gain the employees' engagement, and perhaps, more importantly, managers get to decide who benefits from its leniencies. “Moral gray zones enable both managers... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners

By: Linda A. Hill
After 24 years at Motown Industries, Hollywood executive Suzanne de Passe has decided to go out on her own to start two new businesses. The case describes de Passe's career from her beginning as Berry Gordy's assistant at Motown Records to her presidency of Gordy/de... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Business or Company Management; Entertainment; Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; California
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Why Do Pro Forma and Street Earnings Not Reflect Changes in GAAP? Evidence from SFAS 123R

By: Ian D. Gow, Mary E. Barth and Daniel Taylor
This study examines how key market participants—managers and analysts—responded to SFAS 123R's controversial requirement that firms recognize stock-based compensation expense. Despite mandated recognition of the expense, some firms' managers exclude it from pro forma... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
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    Jeffrey F. Rayport

    Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

    • August 2010 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    Patagonia

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Hyunjin Kim and Forest L. Reinhardt
    Patagonia was deeply committed to the environment. This commitment, at times, conflicted with the company's goal to create the most innovative products in its industry. Patagonia's founder and executives welcomed imitation of both its environmental commitment and its... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Business Model; Business Strategy; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry
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    • April 2012
    • Case

    Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation

    By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
    Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), a government agency, invests in public-private partnerships to stimulate commercialization of Danish scientific research within the country's industry. DNATF established a process for evaluating proposals, making... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Commercialization; Management Practices and Processes; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Invention; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Technology Industry; Denmark
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      Linda A. Hill

      Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • 16 Aug 2022
        • Op-Ed

        Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

        dust has settled a bit, I am seeing the best entrepreneurs realize that now is the time to play offense. The "play offense" playbook is well known to many, but hard to execute during a downturn. With the start of the football season... View Details
        Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
        • 23 Mar 2020
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation

        Keywords: by Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan H. Thomke, and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali
        • 03 Oct 2011
        • News

        Kodak's Patent Portfolio, Bankruptcy

        • 2013
        • Chapter

        Effective Teamwork and Collaboration

        By: Heidi K. Gardner
        Book Abstract: The ability to attract, develop, and retain talent has become one of the biggest competitive issues for law firms. But although talent management is now recognized as a business issue of prime importance, law firms often lack the experience, vision, and... View Details
        Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Legal Services Industry
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        • Blog

        Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?

        It's no secret that digital technologies have transformed—and continue to transform—entire industries. The ability to grasp the implications of shifting technologies, from mobile devices to social media to machine learning, is critical... View Details
        • November 1989 (Revised April 2018)
        • Case

        Automation Consulting Services

        By: Robert Simons and Hilary Weston
        Illustrates the management control challenges that are associated with rapid growth and geographic expansion. Situated at an offsite Executive Committee Retreat. The three founding partners of a specialized consulting firm are grappling with several difficult questions... View Details
        Keywords: Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Expansion; Consulting Industry
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        • 18 Dec 2006
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

        "PLD is unique in that it is more 'MBA-ish' that any other executive program and yet at the same time more 'executive-ish' than the MBA program. The people who come to PLD have the same hunger for learning all aspects of View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • November 2007 (Revised March 2014)
        • Case

        Excerpts from Interview with Jim Triandiflou, Founder of Ockham Technologies

        By: Noam Wasserman
        Describes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Conflict Management
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        • January 2013 (Revised January 2015)
        • Case

        FX Risk Hedging at EADS

        By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Dessain and Karol Misztal
        In 2008, EADS, the European aerospace group that owns Airbus, was faced with the decision of how best to hedge a large and growing mismatch between its dollar revenues and its euro manufacturing costs. Specifically, the company needed to decide if it would continue... View Details
        Keywords: Derivatives; Foreign Exchange; Options; Forward Contract; Aerospace; Europe; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Aerospace Industry; Europe
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          David G. Fubini

          David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

          • 17 Aug 2020
          • Research & Ideas

          What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

          [This is the fourth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most... View Details
          Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams