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- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
and agony of doing the hard work themselves." (Phil Clark); "It's about selling the dream that the star will add to the bottom line fast with new clients, etc." (Jacoline Loewen); "Rather than create succession plans... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
founder and CEO of Spire, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services.Making good on those long-term goals, Platzer says, was the result of building a very specific mission for himself while he was at HBS: "To... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
higher crop yields and reduced carbon emissions, the company's return on this investment has been estimated at $5 billion. The company was even more ambitious when setting its next set of 10‐year goals in 2006. In this statement, Dow's leadership aimed to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Complete Paper Award at the 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Ensemble IV: Creating Instrumental Variables from Ensemble Learners for Robust Statistical Inference” with Gordon Burtch, Mochen Yang, and Gediminas Adomavicius. Seth... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
lot of the dynamics within the sector." Thinking about creating and managing networks might help them focus on their social cause in a very entrepreneurial way. Instead of thinking about management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
firm, which utilizes a large distributor base and depends on this individual distributor base to sell its products, giving explicit incentives for these individual distributors to both sell its products and sign up other distributors. The case gives students the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
that his case was airtight, but offered to forgive the $25,000 overpayment if the employee agreed to forgo his groundless suit as well. The employee's response: "No way. I don't need to see the records. I'll see you in court!" The View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
background, and they have a good idea of what they want to do with that experience when they get here." The flexibility and freedom of academia has an entrepreneurial appeal that is extremely rewarding for those who want to set their own... View Details
- Web
General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
National Peacemaker Award from the National Conflict Resolution Center in 2020. Gerald C. Chertavian : Named a Glassdoor Employee’s Choice Top CEO at an SMB in 2021. Vikram Gandhi : Winner of the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in negotiations. We develop grounded theory detailing how the micro-interactions comprising a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
awareness and figuring out how the NBA could drive real economic growth. The continent offers a unique opportunity for impact, notes Tatum, with 70 percent of sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 30, according to the United Nations, which... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
http://hbr.org/search/113088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-125 Plastiq The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
When our team reached out to 600 CEOs during the pandemic’s early stages to ask them about their greatest concerns, many cited communication with employees. While the right communication strategy has been critical during the pandemic, it... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
act, and this I believe is not deception." Karen Dempster comments that "I completely believe leaders all use a form of theatre, even quietly, to express and create hopefully a calm, delegated form of control ." Just how... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
organization is ready both in terms of the systemic culture and pattern of management that exists.” Too often CEOs turn to HR to create a training program when faced with a problem. The View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
management tome, The Knowledge-Creating Company. Now, the book’s recently published sequel, The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation, elevates their original ideas, outlining six practices that enable leaders to steer... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
1981. Opened in 1992, Pho Hoa has been run with few formal processes in place and no regular income statement reporting, forecasting, or budgeting. Thanh, wanting to take a well-deserved retirement after 25 years of hard work, has named his eldest son, Tam, View Details