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- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
attacks. Garry Emmons: The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within a highly differentiated organization. Post-9/11, how's the intelligence community doing on that score? Jan Rivkin: Intelligence issues are enormously complex, and I should say right at... View Details
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
- 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
Deshpande, Rohit, and Seth Schulman. "Hewlett-Packard (A)." Harvard Business School Case 505-065, February 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 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
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
owned by Cantor Index Holdings, mimics a real supply-and-demand-based stock exchange like the NYSE. HSX acts as the market maker—its technology is set up so that when there is high demand for a certain stock, prices will automatically go... View Details
- 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
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Anthony St. George. "Acer America: Development of the Aspire." Harvard Business School Case 399-011, January 1998. (Revised April 2001.)
- 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
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
JUUL: Leading the Vaping Revolution
DISCOVER YOUR TRUE NORTH
The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leaders
Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North.... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
Daniel M. Cable, and Bradley R. Staats show the importance of affirming team members’ self-concept prior to team formation. Risk Management: The Revealing Hand Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes explore the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage
By October 2010, American Electric Power, the largest coal-fired, electric utility in the United States, had been operating a carbon capture and sequestration pilot plant for one year. Using a proprietary, Alstom chilled ammonia technology, AEP was capturing and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Government Legislation; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Utilities Industry; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K. "AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage." Harvard Business School Case 711-036, October 2010. (Revised July 2013.)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
same time, the Los Angeles Rams “morphed from a plodding exemplar of mediocrity” to an explosive conference winner, also with the help of a modern, creative offensive system, helmed by the youngest coach in NFL history, Sean McVay. The... View Details
- 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
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
opportunities, but also created challenges throughout their organizations. At the Multi-Channel Retail panel, speakers from three retail companies, all heavily invested in multi-channel selling, talked about how they were tailoring their strategies to best sell to... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
So many boxes. Drew Dixon (MBA 2004) moved into this Brooklyn Heights apartment just a few days ago, as evidenced by the ratio of boxes emptied to those still filled. The living room, though, is an island of unpacked order, bobbing above... View Details