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  • 20 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

companies grow and others stagnate. “In spite of all of the emphasis on growth, in fact most firms don’t grow much at all.” In addition to Pisano, the co-authors were Giovanni Dosi, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna; Marco Grazzi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 31 May 2023
  • HBS Case

Why Business Leaders Need to Hear Larry Miller's Story

Boston. Produced in collaboration with Danielle Kost and Dina Gerdeman of HBS Working Knowledge. Inspired by the case "Larry Miller" by Francesca Gino, Frances X. Frei, Hise... View Details
Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive landscape worldwide View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

comparability and therefore no best practice, only "it all depends." Worse yet, we are often not conscious of these influences. Mauboussin maintains that we too often underestimate the importance of luck in the outcomes of our decisions, employing Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • First Quarter 2013
  • Article

Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

By: Caitlin C. Rosenthal
Daniel McCallum's 1854 organizational chart for the New York and Erie Railroad resembled a tree rather than a pyramid. It empowered frontline managers by clarifying data flows. View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Telegraph; Organizational Charts; History; Data and Data Sets; Business History; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry
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Rosenthal, Caitlin C. "Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (First Quarter 2013): 13–18.
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

manager faced decisions that could have derailed the performer's career. A new case by Associate Professor Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that instead created a global brand. Why Leaders Lose Their Way (21,651)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

explicitly and frequently," to Clayton Christensen's insights about how poorly companies handle the technological discontinuities inherent in a faster moving world. Kotter also credits recent work by Nobel Laureate View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 07 Aug 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, to "think twice" View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

Christensen reminded us that the root cause of every business disaster is mistakenly pursuing short-term goals ahead of long-term ones." Daniel T. C. Lee commented, "Traditional or not, strategic planning has never restricted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • June 2019
  • Case

Athena Bancorp

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Sarah Abbott
Athena Bancorp was founded in 2016 by Beth Daniels, a banking professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. Daniels took advantage of what she perceived as a gap in the market caused by recent industry consolidation, a decreasing industry focus on branch... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Strategy; Service Delivery; Banking Industry
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  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

around Earth Day festivals taking place around the world. But the biggest news isn't the millions of people partying in parks. It's the millions of dollars that banks are dedicating to solving environmental problems, joined by companies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

Americans are working longer hours than ever before, with the office increasingly stealing our leisure time. But according to new research by Anat Keinan, this hectic way of life is, for many of us, far from an unmitigated negative. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

today. There's a catch, however. It requires that the questioner know how to listen, something many CEOs have forgotten. The question is brought closer to home in a new book by Daniel DeSteno, The Truth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 28 Nov 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

inherently wrong with pay for performance, only in the way that specific plans have been designed and implemented." Mathews Daniel Kapito helped frame the challenge. As he put it, "People are different pay linked to performance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West

leaders who don't develop self-awareness are subject to becoming seduced by external rewards, such as power, money, and recognition. They also have difficulty acknowledging mistakes, an Achilles' heel that has crippled a number of CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

this way: "It is hard for me to imagine that certification by itself would have a significant impact on a CEO's ethics...The real problem is the ability of CEOs to be CEOs." John Anderson commented that "Let's not assume... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Green Bonds, written with Daniel Bergstresser of Brandeis University and Jeffrey Wurgler of NYU’s Stern School of Business. While green bonds have been issued by banks and corporations as well, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

headed by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin. Starting from a premise stated in the title of the first chapter, "The End of Easy Oil," the project team went on to recognize the importance of a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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