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- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
of the way the company is managed. Q: Why haven't organizations thought more about succession? A: Succession is awkward for most boards and CEOs. It is associated with failure or a kind of death. Giving up power is not pleasant. So many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
when an impulsive decision could have led to an explosion, or failure to tie in to a scaffolding could have resulted in a deadly fall, many reported that disregard for safety, fierce independence, and bravado had been badges of honor. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
in our lives. Rich with examples of current and historical failures and successes, The Arc of Ambition is a straightforward, practical guidebook that offers advice on how to develop a vision, recognize opportunity, and proceed with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
boardrooms, academia, and the business press to examine their roles in sustaining or promoting worrisome flaws in the process corporations use to fill their top office. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) HBS Press Books in Brief As the recent View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
uncertainty. Even in the smartest venture firms, failures are more common than successes. This is a difficult concept for governments to accept. France, for example, has a tendency to set up entrepreneurship initiatives and pull out after... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
Many commentators suggest that the primary reason for these failures is poor implementation, particularly a lack of sufficient, forceful leadership by top management, and that's certainly an important factor in many cases. But in our book... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January – February 2012
- Article
When One Business Model Isn't Enough
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jorge Tarzijan
Trying to operate two business models at once often causes strategic failure. Yet LAN Airlines, a Chilean carrier, runs three models successfully. Casadesus-Masanell, of Harvard Business School, and Tarziján, of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, explore how... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Failure; Business Model; Service Operations; Asset Management; Value; Complexity; Competency and Skills; Business Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk and Uncertainty; Customer Relationship Management; Air Transportation Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Jorge Tarzijan. "When One Business Model Isn't Enough." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2012).
- November 2023
- Supplement
'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (B)
By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia Comeau
Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Philippines
Spar, Debora L., Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta, and Julia Comeau. "'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 324-039, November 2023.
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
workforce ages, their skills “asset base” erodes, making the logic of relying on alternatives more compelling. That problem is compounded by the failure of many U.S. employers to cultivate relationships with local educators to help ensure... View Details
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
that " we will need to think deeply about how to ensure these crowds we are tapping into (through information networking) are given sufficient opportunities to learn and to properly feel engaged." Both achievements and failures... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
uncertainty? More broadly, why does the startup ecosystem contain so many market failures that lead to biases and inequities – particularly in terms of access to capital for female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color? 6. Financing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
middle skills jobs,” Worrell says. “We focused our research on that gap and the failure in the talent supply chain that’s leading to that gap.” HBS alumnus Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999) also stepped up to help understand the talent gap. As CEO... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. Our successes have included bringing to Asia in a joint venture: McDonald's (Hong Kong, Singapore, South China), IKEA, Stanford Dialysis clinics in eight Asian countries, etc. Failures we... View Details
- February 2019 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Scandal at Steinhoff
By: Kristin Mugford and Phil Caruso
Keywords: Volatility; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Bonds; Corporate Accountability; Failure; International Finance; Restructuring; Business Conglomerates; Crime and Corruption; Retail Industry; South Africa; Austria; Netherlands
Mugford, Kristin, and Phil Caruso. "Scandal at Steinhoff." Harvard Business School Case 219-098, February 2019. (Revised October 2022.)
- April 1993 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Chiron Corp.
Pablo Valenzuela, vice president of R&D at Chiron Corp., faces several choices for how to allocate scarce resources across several promising projects. These choices will determine Chiron's position in several emerging biotechnology and diagnostic markets, including... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Research and Development; Failure; Business Strategy; Joint Ventures; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; California
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Chiron Corp." Harvard Business School Case 693-052, April 1993. (Revised November 1994.)
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
shown that humans feel the pain of loss more acutely than the joy of success. This can cause us to be more comfortable with inaction, and to rationalize preserving the status quo. Courageous leaders work to become reflexively excited about the upside. Second, they... View Details
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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
failures of different teams as they tried to navigate the large storms they faced. The second objective is to understand how crises always contain the possibility of substantial innovation. Some of this innovation occurs at an... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
brink of failure through a painful restructuring and commitment to both innovation and the diversification of its product lines. “We make products that change the world,” he says, noting Corning’s development of LCD glass; tools to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
significant changes in technology and business models, which explains the many challenges and incumbent failures highlighted in a variety of research.19 A common failure of niche players is to bind too... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien