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  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

New Video: Books@Baker Interview with Felix Oberholzer-Gee Click to watch. Some companies gain advantage by commanding premium prices. Others lean on their world-class talent. But, a small slice of companies manages to do both—and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost

    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

    Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
    • July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
    • Case

    Timberland: Commerce and Justice

    By: James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard and James Quinn
    When Jeffrey Swartz became the third generation in his family to lead the Timberland Co., he pursued a strategy in which commerce and justice were "inextricably linked." Community involvement, environmental management, and global labor standards became not addenda to... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Opportunities; Alignment; Business Strategy; Value
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    • 13 Dec 2022
    • HBS Seminar

    Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Are Private Equity Firms Better Managed?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
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    • 2019
    • Book

    The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

    By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
    The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Platform; Internet and the Web; Management; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms
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      Suraj Srinivasan

      Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
      • 04 Sep 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

      More importantly, when the CEOs were asked "What's your past level of success in managing significant change?" only 15 percent said they had been "very successful." Another 15 percent said they had had "little or... View Details
      Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

        Martin A. Sinozich

        Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs.  For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that... View Details

        • 29 Nov 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

        and even foolhardy. Some in tech suggest there’s more of a “move fast, break things” strategy to it than perhaps meets the eye. How does it look to you? Wu: We shouldn’t be surprised by the management style that Musk is taking to Twitter.... View Details
        Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
        • 13 Sep 2018
        • HBS Seminar

        Nitin Joglekar, Boston University

        • 2012
        • Book

        The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance

        By: James Heskett
        The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Framework; Policy; Retention; Books; Analytics and Data Science; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Research
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          Michael Beer

          MICHAEL BEER

          Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

          • November 2003 (Revised February 2004)
          • Case

          Richmond Events

          By: Amy C. Edmondson and Kristin Lieb
          The managers of British business forum planner, Richmond Events, are struggling to expand their conference offerings into new territories. At the same time, they are trying to decide how product managers, who are critical to event success, should be hired, trained,... View Details
          Keywords: Conferences; Innovation and Management; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Conflict Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Service Industry; United Kingdom; Asia
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          • 18 Mar 2013
          • HBS Case

          HBS Cases: LEGO

          Out of work for a year following a serious illness in 1993, Kjeld appointed a five-person management team to help him run the company when he returned. The group focused mainly on driving growth. When a benchmarking study revealed LEGO's... View Details
          Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
          • 25 Jan 2022
          • Cold Call Podcast

          How Footwear Startup Allbirds is Decarbonizing Fashion

          Keywords: Re: Michael W. Toffel
          • 14 Dec 2016
          • HBS Seminar

          Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

          • 27 Jan 2012
          • News

          Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes

          • 14 Jul 2009
          • First Look

          First Look: July 14

          difference between both kinds of firms is that OS share their technological advances on the primary good, while P keep their innovations private. The main contribution of the paper is to determine conditions under which OS and P coexist... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace