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    Invested in Detroit

    April 11, 2018 - Karen Mills leads a discussion between Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and JPMorgan Chase's President and CEO Jamie Dimon and Head of Corporate Responsibility Peter Scher for a discussion on cross-sector collaboration to drive economic opportunity in... View Details
    • 20 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

    about presuming preferences. When predicting other people’s tastes, we tend to erroneously assume that liking one thing precludes enjoying another, dissimilar option, according to a recent set of studies by researchers at Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
    • January 1998 (Revised April 2001)
    • Case

    Acer America: Development of the Aspire

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George
    Follows the development, national launch, and global rollout of the Aspire, Acer's first new product developed outside of Taiwan. Implementing a very promising new PC concept proves challenging to Mike Culver and his U.S. team, who are plagued by coordination problems... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Supply Chain; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business Subsidiaries; Product Launch; Computer Industry; United States; Taiwan
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    • 17 Sep 2014
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

    satisfying solution. However, argues Mike Wheeler, it's important for students to know that there's still a time and place for old-school haggling. To Read More: ARTICLES Negotiating with Wal-Mart What happens when you encounter the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 May 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    How Ethical Can We Be?

    them, probably through a process, as Mike Flanagan put it, of "more open discussion at home, work and at play." Other suggestions came from C. J. Cullinane when he said "we can make better, fairer decisions View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 04 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4

    particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting in the 1990s and continuing to the present. Organizational research has... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2005 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    Hewlett-Packard (A)

    By: Rohit Deshpande and Seth Schulman
    Since its controversial merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard had been under pressure by analysts and some stockholders to divest itself of its low-margin PC business. For CEO Carly Fiorina and others on HP's management team, however, PCs seemed integral to the company's... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Customer Focus and Relationships; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Infrastructure; Business Strategy; Price; Computer Industry
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    • 17 Nov 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Decoding the Artful Sidestep

    during political debates by posting the question asked for the duration of the politicians' answers. Mike and I expect this will increase the penalty for dodging a question, and in the intermediate term... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 18 Apr 2005
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

    on the New England Patriots. By virtue of their fame and wealth, professional players are the target of all kinds of business opportunities, most of them bad, Johnson continued. "We are easy prey to a lot of potentially bad... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
    • 04 Aug 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

    "The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned, and winning behaviors... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Aug 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

    be." It raises the question, would we know a stretch goal when we see it? Perhaps the best response to that question was from Sujeet Prabhu, who commented that "Stretch goals are goals (which), if achieved by your competitors,... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 05 Feb 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

    potential use of power, and motives. As Matthew Tuttle suggested, "Many of the traits are ... difficult to see in an interview." One answer to the challenge was suggested by Kirk Richardson: "There is only one true way to... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 17 Jul 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

    As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 05 Dec 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

    the lottery business—but we know we're in the lottery business. Mike Hirshland, general partner at Polaris Ventures, advised MBAs in the audience to think long and hard about why they want to be in venture capital. "It's a different,... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services
    • 3 PM – 4 PM EDT, 27 Mar 2023
    • Virtual Programming

    Chief Sustainability Officer Panel

    As organizations continue to formalize their commitment to the environment through ESG efforts, the opportunities for MBAs to meaningfully contribute to this field continue to grow and evolve. Leadership roles often filled by MBAs include Chief Sustainability Officer... View Details
    • 31 Jul 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

    perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing
    • 07 Jun 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    How Important are Big Ideas?

    Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point, outweighed by methods and the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 16 Feb 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Center Focuses on Europe

    completion. In addition, the ERC has been involved in about thirty course development projects, for instance by searching for appropriate case sites for a faculty member, facilitating company contacts, or participating in European... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 16 Jul 2019
    • News

    JUUL: Leading the Vaping Revolution

    • 14 Feb 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    The World in Your Palm?

    As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel of industry players moderated... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne