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  • July 2024
  • Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
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  • 2017
  • Article

Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study

By: Shashank Shah
The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Environment; Management Practices and Processes; Research; Framework; India
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  • 06 Mar 2020
  • Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

Click to watch. “The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers,” says Harvard Business School Professor Thomas DeLong, who since 1997 has taught more than 20,000 MBAs and executives on campus and around the globe.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

What makes a successful entrepreneurial leader? Is it the technical brilliance of Bill Gates? The obsessive focus on user experience of Steve Jobs? The vision, passion, and strong execution of Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo? Or maybe... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • Web

What is FIELD Global Immersion? - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

reach and leveraging its digital assets. Appointment Press Release One Ten Community of Practice Summit Hosted The inaugural OneTen Community of Practice Summit convened in March, bringing together OneTen founders, executives from partner... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a career, but only if the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

existing products. We find that ambidextrous organization designs are significantly more effective in executing innovation streams than functional, cross-functional, and spinout designs. Further, transitions to ambidextrous designs were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
In this article, we summarize our research on the value of intermittency for complex problem solving at work and give practical advice on how organizations can improve the rhythm of their people's collaboration. Executives have been counseled to be collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Internet and the Web; Leadership
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  • Web

Mid-US - Global

interview focuses on Weaver's entrepreneurial journey, leadership style, and the challenges she faced breaking into the highly regulated and competitive spirits industry. Gibson reflects on the leadership... View Details
  • December 2014 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

Dow: Breakthroughs to World Challenges

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Annelena Lobb
Dow had adopted the "Breakthroughs to World Challenges" (BWC) program as part of its ten-year 2015 Sustainability Goals. BWC was an internal award recognizing products that effectively addressed one of five world challenges: energy and climate change, sustainable water... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Strategy; Social Issues; Entrepreneurship
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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • Web

About - Global

Executive Education participants were from outside the U.S., and 32% of MBA alumni were living abroad. 2013 Middle East and North Africa Research Center opens in Istanbul 2012 MBA students travel abroad for the required global component... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
  • January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

Weathernews

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Akiko Kanno
Tomohiro Ishibashi (Bashi), chief executive officer for B to S, and Julia Foote LeStage, chief innovation officer of Weathernews Inc., were addressing a panel at the HBS Digital Summit on creative uses of big data. They told the summit attendees about how the Sakura... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Operations; Globalization; Weather; Forecasting and Prediction; Global Strategy
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  • January 2012
  • Article

How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

By: Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways. This article is based on analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Performance; Strategic Planning; Leading Change; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose
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  • Web

Research - Global

the Way of Organizational Change By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to... View Details
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

your computer screen and take a break from accomplishing task after task. Another suggestion involves simply slowing down physically in order to slow down mentally. One busy executive who managed 1,500 people said when she had meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Q1Q2 3.0 Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing Human Capital Ethan Bernstein Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also listed... View Details
  • Web

FAQ - MBA

management and financial challenges faced by corporations, start-ups and nonprofits. Business executives find that an understanding of the law enhances their ability to evaluate risk, make strategic decisions, and conduct day-to-day... View Details