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  • 20 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

debt "massively," Rhodes-Kropf says, because it does deals one at a time and is willing to walk away from the debt and return the company to the debt holders. (Strategic View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

are here to partner with technology companies to help you foster connections with HBS students and meet your hiring goals. The key message they want to get across: “No matter how big or small your recruiting team, how many people you are... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • Research Summary

Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
  • 03 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

in the sample adopted an average of 7.3 new web stack technologies; more than half brought on at least one new technology. In total, the study covers 251 companies that spent time in the coworking space... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Supplement 425-716, February 2025. Moleskine: Daniela Riccardi Turns the Page By: Ryan Raffaelli February 2025 | Supplement | Faculty Research Newly appointed CEO Daniela Riccardi needed to develop and present an action plan to the board of the View Details
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

story. How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’KKR turned around a struggling door company and sold it for 10 times its investment—giving factory workers a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

live.” “It helped me process the possibility that the time at the company I had started could be finished, and that could be OK.” Even as he was feeling fulfilled by helping people, he felt himself crashing.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Research Areas - Doctoral

origins of today’s business environment as well as some of the alternatives that have emerged from time to time; and study other countries’ business environments and their historical development. This group of scholars is deeply... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

  • Profile

Fola Folowosele

result of the executive education program at HBS. I was fortunate to meet the Grupo Technos CEO, who was at the time doing an executive education program on campus. We developed a relationship that eventually led to an internship focused... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products
  • 12 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

are struggling to raise capital, hire, and scale your business, is there time and energy available to also rethink how you do business in general? How much effort do you want to put in to stand out as a View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • December 1993 (Revised January 1994)
  • Case

Montana Land Reliance

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Thomas Patterson
The Montana Land Reliance is a small not-for-profit organization in the business of creating conservation easements on private lands in Montana. The easements preserve the scenic character and recreational value of the lands by precluding subdivision and other forms of... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Business or Company Management; Natural Environment; Nonprofit Organizations; Property; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Montana
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  • June 2017 (Revised May 2018)
  • Supplement

Hilti Fleet Management Video Supplements

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing them as a service. The introduction of the new... View Details
Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Construction; Leasing; Strategy; Decision Making; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; North America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong
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  • November 2012
  • Article

Does Management Really Work?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In... View Details
Keywords: Best Practices; Consulting Firms; Corporations; Cost Control; Employee Training; Executive Ability (Management); Executives—training Of; Hospitals—administration; Industrial Management—research; Productivity Incentives; School Management Teams; Work Environment; Management; Research
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  • November 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Tim Ferriss: What Might This Look Like If It Were Easy?

By: Reza Satchu and Denise Koller
In April 2024, writer-podcaster Tim Ferriss—celebrated as the “Oprah of audio” for his billion-download show and known for NYT-bestsellers like The 4-Hour Workweek—found himself at a crossroads. Despite generating a multi-million-dollar annual revenue with just three... View Details
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  • January 2023
  • Case

Cleave Therapeutics: Taking a Risk on Oncology Drug Discovery

By: Regina Herzlinger and Brian Walker
What should a successful executive (HBS Baker Scholar) assess as her next move as the CEO of a firm with a promising and yet uncertain new drug? Amy Burroughs’ mandate to successfully commercialize Cleave Therapeutics’ drug for a cancer with no current successful... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Leadership; Health Testing and Trials; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Condition; Partners and Partnerships; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

In the land of the digitally connected, the mobile device is king. The majority of digital media consumption happens on mobile devices, with smartphone and tablet activity making up 60 percent of digital screen time in the United States,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 16 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

Travel Dates: June 11-18 Travel Party: Fifteen people, including nine faculty members. Locations: The cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Companies and institutions visited include Tsinghua Science Park, Microsoft, Li-Ning, Gome,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

$8 billion. Proponents of the proposed rule argue that it would prevent companies from having to consider frivolous proposals from small investors who don’t have much stake in a company’s success. After all, it takes a lot of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel