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  • 21 Mar 2023
  • News

Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership

  • 2022
  • Book

Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity. In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines
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  • June 2013 (Revised September 2016)
  • Supplement

Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-he Hsieh and Lara Adamsons
Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social... View Details
Keywords: Nike; Hannah Jones; Mark Parker; Phil Knight; Philip Knight; Eric Sprunk; Jill Ker Conway; Phyllis Wise; Don Blair; Sustainable Business And Innovation; SB＆I; Flyknit; DyeCoo; Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Apparel; Athletic Apparel; Sustainability; Greenpeace; Detox Campaign; Dirty Laundry; Water; Water Use; Water Pollution; Water Resources; Corporate Responsibility Committee; Judgment; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Footwear Industry; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Fairness; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Alignment; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Judgments; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia; China; United States; Oregon; Portland
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  • February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia

By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia; Arabian Peninsula
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  • September 2014
  • Case

Havas: Change Faster

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman
As of 2013, Havas was the 6th largest global advertising, digital, and communications group in the world. Headquartered in Paris, France, the group was highly decentralized, with semi-independent agencies in more than 100 countries offering a variety of services. The... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Agency; Open Innovation; Commercials; Digital Media; Digital Transition; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Advertising Campaigns; Acquisition; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry
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  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

campus. He was, in that way, inspiring. Geoffrey G. Jones Geoffrey G. Jones is the current Isidor Straus Professor of Business History and serves... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2018
  • News

Our world is changing – but not as rapidly as people think

  • 15 Oct 2018
  • News

Venezuela’s Meltdown Creates a Nation of Desperate Capitalists

  • Article

The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry
Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic orientations. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

CEOs into distinct communication styles that, among other things, appear to be correlated with the financial performance of their companies. “There is a whole ocean of data out there that people aren’t using” The research was conducted by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

issues to a new level by commenting, "It is tough to even have people agree on what is being denied ." Denial can be beneficial. Joline Godfrey waxed almost poetic in saying that "denial is a critical component of my... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf "Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective Author: Geoffrey View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

rather than resources.” Managers don’t want to listen to those ‘below’ them, he wrote. Stephen Achilles added that “leadership does not understand the strengths and interests of their workers.” A number of remedies were suggested. David View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Scaling Minority Businesses

    Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB) is an MBA elective that focuses on the unique challenges that Black and Latinx business owners face as they scale. The course was created by Professor Bussgang and his colleagues Professors Archie Jones and Henry McGee. View Details

      Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

      Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

      In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
      • 16 Feb 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

      According to a new book by Harvard Business School's Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. An outside-in perspective means that... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
      • 08 Aug 2011
      • News

      Shaky economy

      • 22 Dec 2015
      • First Look

      December 22, 2015

      demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature takes as a datum. This is examined conceptually and View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 04 Feb 2010
      • What Do You Think?

      What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

      used to make better decisions without the influences described above. It's why, for example, some successful investors simply choose stocks of the bottom companies in the Dow Jones average in the preceding year in making their investments... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett