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  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

isn’t necessary when looking for the right top executive; industry expertise often counts more. Many of these leaders have previous public-company management experience, and they deliver outsized returns for themselves and the PE-backed... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • January 2007
  • Article

Acquisitions and Firm Growth: Creating Unilever's Ice Cream and Tea Business

By: G. Jones and Peter Miskell
This article provides a longitudinal case study of the use of acquisitions by the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever to build the world's largest ice cream and tea businesses. The study supports recent resource-based theory which argues that complementary rather than... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Value; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business and Shareholder Relations; Interests; Business Ventures; Employees; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

offering mental health resources or creating a virtual support group or sounding board. "How are you managing these days?" According to the MIT Sloan Management Review, “some... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 31 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

unlearn, relearn, and embrace the latest and best practices. Curiosity and creativity are vital resources for a digitally mature company. Even with the automation of many functions, participants were adamant that View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

curtailing the use of such agreements. Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, is an entrepreneur and startup advisor who now researches how technology firms organize and mobilize resources to grow... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

Abstract 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 19 May 2016
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

In their book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and researcher Patrick Cullen identified creative and innovative thinking as an essential skill for managers operating in a world of rapidly evolving... View Details
  • Web

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Years of Thinking Big Blavatnik Fellowship: 5 Years of Thinking Big 07 FEB 2020 Harvard Business School Resources & Opportunities Community A network of over 90 business and life science leaders and 49 alumni Blavatnik Fellows can provide... View Details
  • February 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Wipro Technologies (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Suma Raju
The new general manager of Wipro's software services division has been brought on board from General Electric to develop the division into a leading provider of software services to the world's largest corporations. A native of India who received management training in... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Transformation; Change Management; Human Resources; Software; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • December 10, 2021
  • Editorial

Go Ahead and Ask for More Time on That Deadline

By: A.V. Whillans and A.V. Whillans
Unrealistic deadlines don’t help anyone—and yet more often than not, employees avoid asking for extensions even when they know more time would help them do a better job. Through a series of studies with more than 4,000 working adults, the author illustrates how despite... View Details
Keywords: Deadlines; Extension Request; Employees; Time Management; Behavior; Perception
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  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

ties—their associates' connections to third parties. Put differently, Chinese managers cultivate ties not only toward associates with the expertise or resources they need, but also toward those who are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2010 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

MindTree: A Community of Communities

By: David A. Garvin and Rachna Tahilyani
MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collaborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must create... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Management; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age. There’s a scrappiness and... View Details
Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2009
  • Article

The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad

By: Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Boris Groysberg and Nitin Nohria
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Few companies are thinking about hiring right now, but that's a mistake. If history... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles
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  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

explored in this area of study. Still, their work so far makes clear the many opportunities that await companies willing to devote resources to this increasingly important aspect of marketing—and the pitfalls awaiting those that do not.... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global

provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East over recent decades. At its core are over 180 interviews by Harvard faculty with high impact leaders in business... View Details
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population and per capita consumption growth, the limited nature of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino