by Anette Mikes - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point, outweighed by methods and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

completion. In addition, the ERC has been involved in about thirty course development projects, for instance by searching for appropriate case sites for a faculty member, facilitating company contacts, or participating in European... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

September 2023
Case

Ada: Cultivating Investors

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti

Mike Murchison, co-founder and CEO of Ada, has an enviable dilemma. Launched in 2016 by Murchison and his co-founder David Hariri, Ada is an AI-native company that aims to revolutionize how businesses approach customer service. The company has already attracted a buzz,... View Details

Keywords: Founder; Fundraising; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry

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20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

February 2018
Teaching Note

Still Leading Series—Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, James Honan and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

The Still Leading case series includes an introductory note, “Still Leading (A): Issues in Transitioning to New Forms of Service Later in Life” and 10 supplementary cases that cover the transition of highly accomplished and prolific leaders (Hon. Robert McDonald, Hon.... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Transition

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19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the election was stolen, deadly violence... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Forest L. Reinhardt

Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

satisfying solution. However, argues Mike Wheeler, it's important for students to know that there's still a time and place for old-school haggling. To Read More: ARTICLES Negotiating with Wal-Mart What happens when you encounter the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2017
News

The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

on the New England Patriots. By virtue of their fame and wealth, professional players are the target of all kinds of business opportunities, most of them bad, Johnson continued. "We are easy prey to a lot of potentially bad... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
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Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

"The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned, and winning behaviors... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

view," but to ask how, if at all, organizations can or should be defended against the response from Anonymous? Its actions, triggered by the attacks on Wikileaks, hinted at a future of everything from Internet mischief (a la... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

be." It raises the question, would we know a stretch goal when we see it? Perhaps the best response to that question was from Sujeet Prabhu, who commented that "Stretch goals are goals (which), if achieved by your competitors,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

potential use of power, and motives. As Matthew Tuttle suggested, "Many of the traits are ... difficult to see in an interview." One answer to the challenge was suggested by Kirk Richardson: "There is only one true way to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

the lottery business—but we know we're in the lottery business. Mike Hirshland, general partner at Polaris Ventures, advised MBAs in the audience to think long and hard about why they want to be in venture capital. "It's a different,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson as well as Ryan Holiday’s instant classic The Obstacle is the Way. I have also been ramping... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

March 2017 (Revised November 2021)
Case

Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards

By: Rory McDonald, Alix Burke, Emma Franking and Nicole Tempest

Founded in 2008, Floodgate pioneered the “micro-VC” category, a new type of investment firm that raised smaller funds and made earlier, smaller investments in technology startups than traditional venture-capital firms. By 2015, Floodgate had raised three funds totaling... View Details