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- April 2019
- Supplement
Scaling the Business to Market Leadership
By: Robert L. Simons
Simons, Robert L. "Scaling the Business to Market Leadership." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 119-711, April 2019.
- Teaching Interest
Families in Business
Like every company, family businesses must strive for growth amidst fierce competition, an evolving marketplace, and demanding customers. But family businesses also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities. In this Executive Education program, participants... View Details
- Research Summary
Family Business Governance
Davis's other current work explores family, business, and ownership governance in the family business system. A book on this topic is in process. Included in this body of work is a large-scale survey project on corporate governance of Brazilian family companies and... View Details
- February 20, 2014
- Article
How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the differences between family business executives who thrive and those who struggle. It discusses how family business environments are inherently complex due to the intertwinement of work and life. Thriving leaders exhibit four key behaviors:... View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Work-Life Balance; Family Ownership; Outcome or Result; Leadership Style
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 20, 2014).
- 24 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
change the MBA experience, and to help business education regain its relevance and value. They are changing their curricula and are attempting to make the learning experience... View Details
- 2021
- Book
Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business--and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Outcome or Result; Business Model; Conflict and Resolution; Organizational Culture
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise. Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey
By: Asli M. Coplan and Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This enterprise was an important actor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Turkey; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; History; Government and Politics; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Electronics Industry; Middle East; Europe
Coplan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-035, November 2014.
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
kinds, it has been clear that every business able to improve governance reaped lasting benefits. If you are in a family enterprise, you need to learn the basics of governance... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- HBS Case
Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story
for business leaders to rethink their hiring practices and start giving the formerly incarcerated more opportunities to prove themselves, say Hise Gibson and coauthors of a... View Details
- January 2009
- Case
Supersonic Business Jets
By: Dennis A. Yao and Julia Rozovsky
In the fall of 2002, Brian Barents, ex-CEO of Galaxy Aerospace, faced an important decision: whether or not to enter the supersonic business jet (SSBJ) industry. Supersonic flight-flight faster than the speed of sound-had long tantalized leaders of commercial aerospace... View Details
- 22 Mar 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Trump’s Populism: What Business Leaders Need To Understand
Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
- Article
Schumpeter's Business Cycles as Business History
Keywords: Business Cycles
McCraw, Thomas. "Schumpeter's Business Cycles as Business History." Business History Review 80, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 231–261.
- Research Summary
Science-Based Business and the Business of Science
By: H. Kent Bowen
Science and technology can provide strategic advantage to companies' through differentiated products and processes. The focus of our research is on unusually productive and creative labs that are the sources of breakthroughs that create platforms for sustained... View Details
- Research Summary
Family Business Management
John Davis is developing cases and other course materials on family business management for the Executive Education program Families in Business: From Generation to Generation, Families in Business/China, the Owner/President Management... View Details
- January 2002
- Case
Metromove.com Business Plan
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Sheila Marcelo
Enables analysis of a business plan in a volatile market. Also enables analysis of the decisions entrepreneurs must make as they start a new business, develop the concept, choose partners, and find funding. View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Professor William Sahlman suggests that a great business plan is one that focuses on a series of questions. These questions relate to the four factors critical to the success... View Details
Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman
- 1999
- Chapter
Business History
By: N. F. Koehn, T. K. McCraw and H. V. Nelles
Keywords: Business History
- March 2011
- Background Note
Pitching Business Opportunities
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
This note can be used to develop a business plan pitch for a new venture. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Spoken Communication; Competency and Skills; Entrepreneurship
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "Pitching Business Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-086, March 2011.
- Research Summary
Business history
Espen Storli is currently working on a project on commodity trading in the post-WWII period, with a special interest in the political economy of the world mercury markets. He is also one of the editors of a forthcoming book on the global economic history of bauxite. View Details
- Article
Medium-term Business Cycles
By: Diego Comin and Mark Gertler
Over the postwar period, many industrialized countries have experienced significant medium-frequency oscillations between periods of robust growth versus relative stagnation. Conventional business cycle filters, however, tend to sweep these oscillations into the trend.... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Fluctuation; Information Technology; Research and Development; Resource Allocation; Framework; Trends; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity
Comin, Diego, and Mark Gertler. "Medium-term Business Cycles." American Economic Review 96, no. 3 (June 2006).