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  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In successful View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • News

The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

    Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship

    To be competitive, companies must grow innovative new businesses. Corporate entrepreneurship, however, isn't easy. New ventures face innumerable barriers and seldom mesh smoothly with well-established systems, processes, and cultures. Nonetheless, success requires a... View Details

    • 16 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 16, 2010

    "truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

    within stores. Align incentives within your organization and in the supply chain. Use technology judiciously and pay attention to emerging new technologies, whose value might still not be apparent. Explain the changes you are making to... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
    • 22 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 22

    Harvard Business School Case 313-091 The JOBS Act of 2012 This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets. Described as among the most... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2014
    • Chapter

    Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities

    By: Matthew Lee, Julie Battilana and Ting Wang
    Purpose: Despite the increase in empirical studies of social enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

    By: Alvin J. Silk
    What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
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      Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007

      The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details

      • Web

      HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

      Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers How can formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society... View Details
      • 08 Jun 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      The Return of the Salesman

      products with new inventions. But a strong sales force could also create a barrier to entry as in the case of IBM. Tom Watson himself noted that even though IBM did not always have the most innovative products, the company succeeded... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
      • January – February 2011
      • Article

      Stop Holding Yourself Back

      By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
      After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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      • April 2022
      • Case

      Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

      By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
      "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The case identifies six distinct phases in the... View Details
      Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States
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      • March–April 2021
      • Article

      Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.

      By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu
      Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Tools; Social Media; Social Networks; Transactive Memory Systems; Augmented Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; Power and Influence; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • April 2022
      • Teaching Note

      Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

      By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details
      Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States
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      • 17 Jul 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: July 17, 2007

      to platform leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move into another's market, combining... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 23 Jul 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

      "one of the people on the other side of the debate took it upon himself to truncate the article greatly and change the title of it. And I left him a message. I wrote, "Hey, did you not see that the result was 'Keep'?" And he replied,... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
      • 10 Jun 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

      Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga
      • 29 May 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: May 29, 2007

      change in the organization? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807149 Habitat for Humanity—Egypt Harvard Business School Case 307-001 Habitat for Humanity—Egypt (HFHE), has grown in just... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 03 Nov 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: Nov. 3

      network, Publicis Groupe launched VivaKi, a new company-wide digital platform, to spearhead the firm's total transformation. But since the June 2008 launch, the global economy had taken a turn for the worse. Could Levy, Kenny, and other leaders View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace