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Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate... View Details

Keywords: media; professional services; manufacturing; advertising

03 Apr 2019
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Jacinda Ardern: A New Kind Of Leadership

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Organizational Effectiveness

By: Frances X. Frei

This research studies the obstacles that systematically get in the way of organizational effectiveness. In the past I have paid particular attention to service organizations, which account for over 70% of organizations in most developed countries. This research... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Effectiveness; Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Service; Growth; Management

03 Apr 2020
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What FDR, Churchill, and Shackleton can teach us about leadership during the coronavirus crisis

11 Oct 2012
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Do Maintenance

2022
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The Great Resignation Didn't Start with the Pandemic

By: Joseph B. Fuller and William R. Kerr

COVID-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers of employees voluntarily quit their jobs. But what we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic. Instead, it’s the continuation of a trend of rising quit... View Details

Keywords: Quit Rate; Labor Market; Great Resignation; Jobs and Positions; Employees; Resignation and Termination; Health Pandemics

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Read Now

08 Oct 2017
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Leadership in Crisis – with HBS’s Nancy Koehn

20 Feb 2018
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How One Copy Of The Declaration Of Independence Endured 200 Years

12 Jun 2024
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The Impact of HBS Staff Affinity Groups

May 1985 (Revised November 1990)
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Spinnaker Software Corp.

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Describes the problems faced by a company that has experienced remarkable growth, but growth which is below projections. The management must evaluate the company's position in the turbulent software industry. The two partners must then decide whether to cut back to... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Software; Information Technology Industry

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Educators

Purchase

10 Jul 2019
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Leadership Lessons From The Moon Landing

September 2002 (Revised August 2014)
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Cardinal Health (A): The Medicine Shoppe Acquisition

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Miguel Abecasis and Brenda Cheng

Robert Walter, the founder and CEO of Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical distributor, is contemplating the purchase of Medicine Shoppe, a chain of apothecaries. The purchase might be construed as competition against his own drugstore customers. But one of its many... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Distribution Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry

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Educators

Purchase

27 Aug 2010
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Management mantras from the Mahatma and leadership lessons from Lincoln?

25 Feb 2011
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Building America's Most Innovative Brands

19 Oct 2017
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Everyday People Who Led Momentous Change

05 Oct 2017
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"Forged in Crisis" author on the makings of a great leader

November 22, 2023
Article

Unifying Your Company Around a Moral Goal

By: Ranjay Gulati

In turbulent times, companies need a reliable anchor to guide decision-making. When organizations become moral communities, underpinned by purpose, they provide that stability for stakeholders as well as a reassuring sense of hope, solidarity, agency, and meaning.... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; Leadership