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  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

investment. "Now, obviously, the company is doing much better since Jobs returned to the CEO job; but having said that, it has not yet reached the value that it was in the early 1990s," Yoffie points out. Yoffie, whose book Judo... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Meaning and Momentum in the Integrated Reporting Movement

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Sydney Ribot
In this summary of their recently published book, the authors provide an update of the state of the integrated reporting (or ) movement, whose aim is to persuade companies to provide fuller disclosure of material nonfinancial (or "ESG") factors and how they are... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting
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  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

some provocative answers. Our in-depth examination of BP's management practices, including interviews with more than 25 business-unit and corporate managers, highlighted five specific types of value that T-shaped managers can generate.... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 23 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

nonprofits to focus on their organizations and strategies, not just the social value their organization creates. Even more importantly, nonprofits are beginning to look at ways to produce measurable proof that what they do works. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls

    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

      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
      • September 1983
      • Case

      Bennett, Strang & Farris

      A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of consensus of values dominate the discussions. View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Profit Sharing; Legal Services Industry
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      • 21 Mar 2022
      • Blog Post

      The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

      CPD interviewed Nancy M. Williams (MBA 1992) to share how she leveraged career coaching to make a career switch, launch a venture and find true fulfillment in her professional and personal endeavors. Tell us a little about yourself, your... View Details
      • 02 Mar 2020
      • What Do You Think?

      Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

      SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of candor, humility, and trust in leadership. As Dan Wallace put it,... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • June 21, 2019
      • Article

      When Tech Companies Compete on Their Own Platforms

      By: Feng Zhu
      One common complaint from third parties about platform businesses is that they see what succeeds on their platforms and then enter the most profitable areas themselves, often decimating third parties in the process. Studies have identified several motivations for... View Details
      Keywords: Platform-based Markets; Platform-owner Entry; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition
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      • 04 Nov 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

      Keywords: by Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca Henderson
      • 16 Jul 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

      When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
      • October 2020
      • Supplement

      OpenIDEO (B)

      By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
      In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Competitions; IDEO; Contests; Contest Design; Platforms And Ecosystems; Open Innovation; Open And User Innovation Strategy; Diversity; Design; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Pandemics; Health; Information; Business and Community Relations; Digital Platforms
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      • 14 May 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

      express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t take literally word-for-word.” So do company ethics codes have any value? In a recent case... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
      • Case

      John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
      This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
      Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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      • 21 Jun 2024
      • Blog Post

      What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

      PRIDE is HBS's home for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning MBA students and their partners. PRIDE builds community through dedicated social and advocacy programming, and in doing so create a supportive environment... View Details
      • September 1999
      • Case

      Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (A)

      By: Stefan H. Thomke and Andrew Robertson
      Focuses on the ongoing competitive battles in the global home video game market that is estimated to exceed $15 billion by 1999 in the United States and Japan alone. Describes how Sega Enterprises has redesigned its development processes to create a revolutionary... View Details
      Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Computer Industry
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      • 29 Apr 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

      with one another.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media creator for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: glebchik] Related Reading: When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number Deconstructing the Price Tag View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz
      • October 14, 2019
      • Article

      Designing Better Online Review Systems

      By: Geoff Donaker, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
      Online reviews are transforming the way consumers choose products and services of all sorts. We turn to TripAdvisor to plan a vacation, Zocdoc to find a doctor, and Yelp to choose a new restaurant. Reviews can create value for buyers and sellers alike, but only if they... View Details
      Keywords: Reviews; Internet and the Web; Design; Quality; Reputation
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      • 17 May 2022
      • News

      Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI